Looking for some Pride Month reads? Here are some recent memoirs from members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Another word for love : a memoir
by Carvell Wallace The writer and podcast host examines his own history of growing of growing up Black and queer in America and the struggles he faced as the son of a single parent in a predominantly white Pennsylvania town. |
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Cactus Country : A Boyhood Memoir
by Zoë Bossiere This debut book chronicles the author's experiences growing up as a trans boy in a Tucson, Arizona trailer park and the challenges they faced living in world of sexism, racism, substance abuse and violence. |
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Coming home
by Brittney Griner From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist comes a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. |
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Kissing Girls on Shabbat
by Sara Glass No longer able to conform to her controlling Hasidic community, the author walked away from the world she knew and onto a path of self-acceptance as she, after a divorce, custody battle, remarriage and a shocking sexual assault, decided to finally be true to herself and embrace her queer identity. |
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High-risk homosexual : a memoir
by Edgar Gomez The Florida-born writer presents a memoir tracing his hard-won path to taking pride in himself as a gay Latinx man despite the culture of machismo surrounding him, including his uncle's cockfighting ring in Nicaragua. |
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Hijab butch blues : a memoir
by Lamya H A queer Muslim immigrant recalls her coming of age and how she drew inspiration from the stories in the Quran throughout her lifetime search for safety and belonging. |
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Horse Barbie : a memoir
by Geena Rocero The memoir of a trans pageant queen from the Philippines who went back into the closet to model in New York City and later found self-acceptance by embracing her true self. |
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The house of hidden meanings : a memoir
by RuPaul From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance. |
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How to live free in a dangerous world : a decolonial memoir
by Shayla Lawson In a series of powerful essays the poet and journalist tracks their global journey to find beauty in tumultuous times, while disrupting the traditional constraints of race, gender and disability. |
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In the form of a question : the joys and rewards of a curious life
by Amy Schneider Armed with boundless curiosity and fearless questioning, the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! shares how she won an even greater prize—the joy of being herself on national television and blazing a trail for openly queer and transgender people around the world. |
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Mean boys : a personal history
by Geoffrey Mak Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, a critic and style expert chronicles his journey to join a global, influential elite until he's forced to confront the price of mistaking status for belonging in a world designed to make us want what's bad for us. |
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The risk it takes to bloom : on life and liberation
by Raquel Willis One of the most formidable Black trans activists in history, in this passionate and powerful memoir, recounts the possibility of transformation after tragedy, and how complex moments can push us all to take necessary risks and bloom toward collective liberation. |
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Thunder song : essays
by Sasha taqwéseblu LaPointe The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint presents essays that segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, examining the role of art and community to help a new generation of Indigenous people claim their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world. |
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Uncle of the year : & other debatable triumphs
by Andrew Rannells In essays drawn from his life and career, the star of The Book of Mormon, Girls and Big Mouth reflects on anxiety, ambition and the uncertain path to adulthood, challenging us to take a long look at who we're pretending to be, who we know we are and who we want to become. |
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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. |