LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction
A variety of non-fiction reflecting lives and experiences across the broad spectrum of gender and sexual orientation, selected by librarians at The Seattle Public Library.
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Queer Love in Color
Jordon’s loving collection of photographs and stories offers an intimate portrait of love and affection between queer couples and families of color.
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The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams
The lost history of Eve Adams, a Jewish lesbian radical and activist who was convicted of obscenity and deported to Nazi Germany. Includes the original text of Adams’ rare book Lesbian Love.
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I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?
Iraqi writer Gzar recounts his immigration to the US, his search for an American solider with whom he had a clandestine romance in Baghdad, and the aid and friendship found in Seattle’s gay community.
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Gay Bar : Why We Went Out
Mixing history and memoir, Lin examines the importance and joy of gay bars as meeting places.
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Mouths of Rain
A wide-ranging anthology that compiles and honors the work of Black lesbian writers and thinkers from the nineteenth century through today.
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Virology
A scientist, researcher, and HIV/AIDS advocate examines scientific and sociopolitical relationships between humans and viruses.
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Q & A
An expansive, multi-disciplinary anthology from queer Asian North American artists, activists, organizers, writers, poets, and scholars.
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Queer Nature
An anthology of nature poetry from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century featuring over 200 queer poets.
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Our Work Is Everywhere
These illustrated interviews provide a stunning visual oral history of the lives and work of queer and trans activists.
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Women's House of Detention
A queer and social critique of New York City’s “Skyscraper Alcatraz,†a women’s prison which stood in Greenwich Village from 1929 and 1974.
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