18 Nonfiction Reading Prompts - hosted by seaglass

LGBT+
Read a book by or about an LGBT+ topic. Biography / memoir, coming out, transitioning, rights movements, history in various cultures, etc.
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Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H

284 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Simon Garfield

The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS

Simon Garfield

560 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Chen Chen

96 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Hugh Ryan

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ politics sociology challenging informative sad medium-paced
Girlhood by Melissa Febos

Girlhood

Melissa Febos

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Audre Lorde

264 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

240 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Sherronda J. Brown

223 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Queer etc. by dkk, Abigail A.

Queer etc.

dkk, Abigail A.

242 pages • missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+
Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi

Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

Amrou Al-Kadhi

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced