LGBTQIA2S+ Non-Fiction (16+)
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LGBTQIA+ non-fiction works encompass a diverse array of literature that explores the lived experiences, histories, and identities of LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities.
Memoirs and autobiographies offer intimate accounts of individuals navigating their gender identities and sexual orientations, sharing personal stories of self-discovery, coming out, and finding acceptance. These narratives provide insight into the complexities of LGBTQIA+ experiences and offer validation and support to readers who may be going through similar journeys.
For the love of men : a new vision for mindful masculinity
Plank, Liz, author.
2019
Award-winning journalist Liz Plank offers a smart, insightful, and deeply-researched guide for what we're all going to do about toxic masculinity. For both women looking to guide the men in their lives and men who want to do better and just don't know how, this book will lead the conversation on men's issues in a society where so much is changing, but gender roles have remained strangely stagnant.
Found in transition : a mother's evolution during her child's gender change
Hassouri, Paria, 1973- author
2020
What do you do when your fourteen-year-old son asks you to iron the dress he recently purchased and plans to wear? Paria Hassouri chronicles what amounts to a dual transition: as her child transitions from male to female, she navigates through anger, denial, and grief to eventually arrive at acceptance. Her journey forces her to reckon with her own childhood as a brown kid in a white world. Hassouri discovers her capacity to evolve, as well as what it really means to parent and the deepest nature of unconditional love.
Gay like me : a father writes to his son
Jackson, Richie, 1965- author
2020
When producer Richie Jackson's eighteen-year-old son born through surrogacy came out to him, Richie was compelled to reflect on his experiences and share his wisdom on life for the LGBTQ community over the past half-century. This is a celebration of gay identity and a sorrowful warning. An intimate, personal exploration of our most troubling questions and profound concerns - about issues such as human rights, equality, justice.
A history of my brief body
Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author
2020
Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place.
Let's talk about it : the teen's guide to sex, relationships, and being a human
Moen, Erika, 1983- author.
2021
"A graphic novel about sex, sexuality, gender, body, consent, and many other topics for teens"-- Provided by publisher.
My rainbow
Neal, Trinity, author
2020
"A dedicated mom puts love into action as she creates the perfect rainbow-colored wig for her transgender daughter, based on the real-life experience of mother-daughter advocate duo Trinity and DeShanna Neal."-- Provided by publisher.
Orange is the new black : my year in a women's prison
Kerman, Piper
2010
A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a woman's prison.
Queer : the ultimate LGBT guide for teens
Belge, Kathy
2011
Addresses some of the challenges faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender teens, offering advice on how to come out to family and friends, develop a social life, deal with homophobia, and other topics, and includes personal testimonies.
The savvy ally : a guide for becoming a skilled LGBTQ+ advocate
Gainsburg, Jeannie, 1963- author
2020
"The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: Current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language, tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you, LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations, common bloopers to avoid, tools for effectively navigating difficult conversations, suggestions for addressing common questions and concerns, actions for creating more LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces, Recommendations for self-care and sustainable allyship. This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians, and college professors, as well as parents who want to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but don't know how. This is not a book about why to be an ally. This is a book about how to be an ally. The goal of The Savvy Ally is to create more confident, active allies who are effective advocates for change. This informative, entertaining, and supportive guidebook will surely jump-start even the most tentative ally." -- Provided by publisher.
Together, creating a better world : a handbook for community work to end gender discrimination
Gurnett, Jim, author, compiler
2014
The trans generation : how trans kids (and their parents) are creating a gender revolution
Travers, Ann, author
2018
Untamed
Doyle, Glennon, 1976- author
2020
Glennon Doyle was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. Glennon looked at her and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. Soon she realized that they came to her from within. This was the voice of the girl Glennon had been before the world told her who to be. She vowed to never again abandon herself. She decided to build a life of her own--one based on her individual desire, intuition, and imagination. She would reclaim her true, untamed self.
Welcome to St. Hell : my trans teen misadventure
Hancox, Lewis, 1989- author, artist.
2022
Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this. But she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this ... but she can't quite hear him yet. Lewis Hancox takes readers on the hilarious, heartbreaking, and healing path he took to make it past trauma, confusion, hurt, and dubious fashion choices in order to become the man he was meant to be.
What's the T? : the guide to all things trans and/or nonbinary
Dawson, Juno, author
2022
"Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or nonbinary person in the twenty-first century in this frank and funny guide for teens"-- Provided by publisher.
What's your pronoun? : beyond he & she
Baron, Dennis E., author
2020
"The story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular they. Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are suddenly sparking debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns; corporate conferences print nametags with space for people to add their pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far more than a byproduct of campus politics or culture wars, gender-neutral pronouns are in fact nothing new. Renowned linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context, demonstrating that Shakespeare used singular they; that women evoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women's rights invoked the same word to assert that he did not include she), and that self-appointed language experts have been coining new gender pronouns, not just hir and zie but hundreds more, like thon, ip, and em, for centuries. Based on Baron's own empirical research, What's Your Pronoun? tells the untold story of gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns"-- Provided by publisher.