Pride Month is drawing to a close but you can still check out these memoirs by LGBTQ+ folks from all walks of life! Many of them are also available as audiobooks read by the authors.
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All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
by George M. Johnson A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy. |
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Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
by Alan Cumming The acclaimed actor chronicles his work in Hollywood, his two marriages, and his journey through personal calamities, bad decisions, encounters with legends, and moments of joy to become the flawed but happy middle-aged man he is today. |
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The daddy diaries : the year I grew up
by Andy Cohen The host and executive producer of Watch What Happens Live takes readers on a behind the scenes of living the so-called glamorous life where late-night parties have been replaced by early mornings with his children, drama at the playground and the musings of a single dad trying to navigate having it all. |
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Fun home : a family tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual. |
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Gender queer / : A Memoir
by Maia Kobabe In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gayfan fiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: It is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. |
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Hola papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons
by John Paul Brammer The popular LGBTQ columnist and writer presents a memoir though a series of essays that chronicle his life growing up as queer, mixed race kid and offers advice for young people facing the same journey. |
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I have always been me : a memoir
by Precious Brady-Davis A trans activist reflects on her difficult childhood in the foster system and how she was able to realize her true identity to become an award-winning diversity advocate, communications professional and public speaker. |
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In the Dream House : A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado The award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties shares the story of her relationship with an abusive partner and how it was shaped by her religious upbringing, her sexual orientation and inaccurate cultural beliefs about psychological trauma. |
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Messy Roots : A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-american
by Laura Gao Seamlessly toggling between past and present, this funny graphic memoir follows a queer Chinese American’s immigration to Texas where she just wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school and figure out why she is attracted to girls. |
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Naturally Tan : A Memoir
by Tan France The "Queer Eye" star and designer recounts his complicated early life as a closeted gay youth from a traditional South Asian family in Yorkshire, sharing insights into his coming of age, emergence as an artist, and happy marriage. |
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Pageboy : a memoir
by Elliot Page The Oscar-nominated star who, after the success of Juno, became one of the world's most beloved actors, reveals how his career turned into a nightmare as he navigated criticism and abuse in Hollywood until he had enough and stepped into who he truly is with defiance, strength and joy. |
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The prince of Los Cocuyos : a Miami childhood
by Richard Blanco Explores the poet's coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants in Miami, Florida, describing his attempts to understand his place in America while coping with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities. |
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Quietly hostile : essays
by Samantha Irby In this much-anticipated new collection of hilarious essays, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author takes us on another outrageously funny tour of all the gory details that make up the true portrait of a life behind the screenshotted depression memes. |
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Unprotected : a memoir
by Billy Porter The incomparable Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner shares his life story of coming of age in a world where simply being himself was a constant struggle and how unbreakable determination led him through countless hard times to where he is now. |
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Why be happy when you could be normal?
by Jeanette Winterson The author of the best-selling Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit traces her life-long search for happiness as the adopted daughter of Pentecostal parents who raised her in a north England industrial town through practices of fierce control and paranoia, an experience that prompted her to search for her biological mother and turn for solace to the literary world. |