2023 LGBTQ+ Reading Challenge - hosted by longstorieshort

A book about LGBTQ+ history.
Can be fiction or nonfiction!
All books added
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

353 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles Kaiser

The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America

Charles Kaiser

432 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World

Mason Funk

10 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World by Frederic Martel

Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World

Mit Press

Frederic Martel

296 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics
Queer. Storia culturale della comunità LGBT+ by Maya De Leo

Queer. Storia culturale della comunità LGBT+

Maya De Leo

271 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ medium-paced
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Susan Stryker

320 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn by Nicole Pasulka

How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn

Nicole Pasulka

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Duberman, George Chauncey, Martha Vicinus

Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past

Martin Duberman, George Chauncey, Martha Vicinus

579 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative medium-paced
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

159 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The New Life by Tom Crewe

The New Life

Tom Crewe

376 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective slow-paced