LGBTQ* Books You May Want To Read

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

In this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening jaunt through the history of gender expression and a powerful testament to the rebellious spirit. (text from GoodReads.com)

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LGBTQ* Young Audience Books (You Might Have Missed)

Lisa Jenn Bigelow’s Starting From Here

Sixteen-year-old Colby Bingham’s heart has been broken too many times. Her mother has been dead for almost two years, her truck driver father is always away, her almost girlfriend just dumped her for a guy, and now she’s failing chemistry. When a stray dog lands literally at her feet, bleeding and broken on a busy road, it seems like the Universe has it in for Colby. But the incident also knocks a chink in the walls she’s built around her heart. Against her better judgment, she decides to care for the dog. But new connections mean new opportunities for heartbreak. Terrified of another loss, Colby bolts at the first sign of trouble, managing to alienate her best friend, her father, the cute girl pursing her, and even her dog’s vet, who’s taken Colby under her wing. Colby can’t start over, but can she learn how to move on? (from GoodReads.com)

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LGBTQ* Infographics You May Have Missed

Stats on LGBTQ* Young Adult books published in the

U.S through 2011 via Malinda Lo.

(source) - post from KNOWhomo Moderator Cael

What’s your favorite YA (LGBTQ*) Novel?

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Your Favorite (for me to discover)

What’s your favorite queer*/LGBTQ* book/novel/graphic novel/comic/film?

What would you recommend that I check out/read/watch this Holiday break?

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There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other’s names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. — Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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LGBTQ* Tumblrs You Should Know

Queer Between The Lines

“Words are beautiful. You are beautiful.”

(You can tell Queer Between The Lines’s moderator* that you look forward to meeting her soon. She will be one of the newest members to the KNOWhomo family as the Vlog launches.)

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LGBTQ* Resources You Might Have Overlooked

GoodReads.com’s Lists of LGBTQ* Books/Discussion Groups

(photo from: BlogHer)

Just click a hashtag below to be brought to hundreds of book titles. LGBT* lists include countless additional lists. Poetry, Graphic Novels, etc are much more concise lists.

(If you are a member of Good Reads and would like to follow/discuss books with another fellow bibliophile, my profile can be found HERE)

#Gay/Queer Poetry (The first book listed is Siken’s CRUSH, which I HIGHLY recommend)

#Queer* Graphic Novels

#A Hint of Queer

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Reading Between The Lines

KNOWhomo Question of the Week:

Your favorite book/comic/graphic novel/short story with a LGBTQ* character?

Favorite LGBTQ* novel?

**Remember: You can check the comments for recommendations for future reading. You can also check in with the KNOWhomo hashtags #Book(s) and #Comic(s)/Graphic Novels

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LGBTQ* KNOWhomo History Posts You May Have Missed

Gay (identified cis-)Men in History

(all posts can be found under the #history hashtag on the right side — click name to link to past post)

Posted 9 months ago

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LGBTQ* Young Audience Books To Keep On Your Radar

The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World

by E.L. Konigsburg

(Following text from Good Reads)

“ninety percent of who you are is invisible.”

Amedeo Kaplan seems just like any other new kid who has moved into the town of St. Malo, Florida, a navy town where new faces are the norm. But Amedeo has a secret, a dream: More than anything in the world, he wants to discover something — a place, a process, even a fossil — some treasure that no one realizes is there until he finds it. And he would also like to discover a true friend to share these things with.

William Wilcox seems like an unlikely candidate for friendship: an aloof boy who is all edges and who owns silence the way other people own words. When Amedeo and William find themselves working together on a house sale for Amedeo’s eccentric neighbor, Mrs. Zender, Amedeo has an inkling that both his wishes may come true. For Mrs. Zender’s mansion is crammed with memorabilia of her long life, and there is a story to go with every piece. Soon the boys find themselves caught up in one particular story — a story that links a sketch, a young boy’s life, an old man’s reminiscence, and a painful secret dating back to the outrages of Nazi Germany. It’s a story that will take them to the edge of what they know about heroism and the mystery of the human heart.

Two-time Newbery winner E. L. Konigsburg spins a magnificent tale of art, discovery, friendship, history, and truth.

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LGBTQ* Novels/Books To Keep On Your Radar

Novels with Black/African-American Lesbian Themes or Characters (1920s-1970s)

Home To Harlem by Claude McKay (1928) - two scenes set in black lesbian bars, glimpses of early Harlem
Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker (1938) - Josephine Jordan, a singer, has a relationship with Amy North, a wealthy woman
The Wasteland by Jo Sinclair (1946) - novel depicting the oppression of women of color and opposition to women of color in lesbian circles
The Big Money by John Dos Passos (1960) - Harlem 1920s
Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley (1974) - one of the first novels to explore interracial relationships between lesbians
Strange Brothers by Blair Niles (1975) - Book takes liberties and draws from Harlem lesbian culture of the 1920s
Ruby by Rosa Guy (1976) - West Indian girl finds friendship after relocating
In Her Day by Rita Mae Brown (1976) - longtime friendship of Adele, a wealthy lesbian woman of color, and Carole, a working-class white lesbian woman
Ed Dean is Queer by N.A. Diaman (1978) - San Francisco elects their new mayor (a queer woman of color)

List/Information From:

Richards, Dell. Lesbian Lists: A Look at Lesbian Culture, History, and Personalities. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1990. p.34

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LGBTQ* Novels You (Should) Know

Like Son by Felicia Luna Lemus

Frank Cruz, born Francisca, leaves California for New york where he finds love with the beautiful, mysterious Nathalie, whose frequent disappearances make Frank reexamine his past and what he wants from love.

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LGBTQ* Novels and Literature You Should Know

(Some of) The Lesbian Canon

1. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

2. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

3. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

4. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

5. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

7. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

8. Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

9. Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

10. The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

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LGBTQ* Pulp Novel ‘Blurbs’

Below are jacket cover blurbs from gay (male) novels of the 1950s/1960s

“He had to choose — a half world or a world of woman’s love” Man Divided (1954) by Dean Douglas

“Part story, part heartbeat, part lowdown song, about the guys who pay the price for everything…” Lonely Boys Blues (1956) by Alan Kapelner

“They lived in fear, loved in secret.” Twilight Men (1957) by Andre Tellier

“Most men fal in love with women, but some men fall in love with themselves” Muscle Boy (1958) by Bud Clifton

“Twilight lives of talent and torment, made-man-for-man in a world of dance.” Mr Ballerina (1961) by Ronn Marvin

“Women lusted after this handsome virile jazzman… It took him years of agony to realize he wanted a man. — This time, his partner is a man.” Hot Pants Homo (1964) by Percy Fenster

“A love or his lady…and his laddie.” AC/DC Stud (1965) Victor Jay

“He came to camp!” Stranger at the Door (1967) by Don Holiday

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