LGBT+ History Month Book List
1529405718 
Paperback 
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: riverrun
Resource type: Physical
Note: The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who work it under the pitiless gaze of its overseers and its owner, Massa Paul. Two young enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah dwell among the animals they keep in the barn, helping out in the fields when their day is done.
1472242564 
Paperback 
Year: 2017
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Headline
Resource type: Physical
1472259475 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Tinder Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: In the garden, there were three flamingos. Not real flamingos, but real emblems, real gateways to a time when life was impossibly good. They were mascots, symbols of hope. Something for a boy to confide in. First, there were the flamingos. And then there were two families. Sherry and Leslie and their daughters, Rae and Pauline - and Eve and her son Daniel.
XX00338774 
Hardback
Year: 2014
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlist Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Shortlist
000834695X 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: The Borough Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: 1902, Brookhants School for Girls: students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well as completely obsessed with 'The Story of Mary MacLane', the scandalous debut memoir by 19 year old MacLane. A few months later they are found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies.
1788167228 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Resource type: Physical
Note: Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
1785043358 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vermilion
Resource type: Physical
Note: Part inspiration, part memoir, 'Untamed' explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and instead dare to listen to and trust in the voice deep inside us. From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, speaker and activist Glennon Doyle.
1529068762 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow's housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation.
0711275009 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: Over 40 empowering speeches celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day.
0349700583 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Dialogue Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Rainbow Milk' is a coming-of-age story told from the point of view of a young black man from a religious background, who identifies several major contradictions between himself, his family life, and his beliefs. Upon rejecting the doctrine, he is shown the need to form a new centre of gravity, and uses his sexuality to explore new notions of love, fatherhood and spirituality.
1529348943 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Hodder Studio
Resource type: Physical
Note: The working-class son of a coach driver, and the youngest member of the Noel Coward Society, Tom Allen grew up in 90s suburbia as the eternal outsider. In these hilarious, honest and heart breaking stories Tom recalls observations on childhood, his adolescence, the family he still lives with, and his attempts to come out and negotiate the gay datin
1447294831 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 Longlist Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 Shortlist When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world;
0091958334 
Hardback
Year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Ebury Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: The autobiography of former Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas, who represented Wales in both rugby union and rugby league. Thomas announced publicly he was gay in 2009, making him the first openly gay professional rugby union player.
1472154606 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Corsair
Resource type: Physical
Note: Booker Prize 2020 Longlist Rachel and Eliza are hoping to have a baby. The couple spend many happy evenings together planning for the future. One night Rachel wakes up screaming and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. She knows it sounds mad - but she also knows it's true. As a scientist, Eliza won't take Rachel's fear seriously and they have
1529111463 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Today I sat on a bench facing the sea, the one where I waited for L to be born, and sobbed my heart out. I don't know if I'll ever recover'. This note was written on 9 November 2017. As the seagulls squawked overhead and the sun dipped into the sea, Alexandra Heminsley's world was turning inside out.
1444968920 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met - until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.
1529112206 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: Mohsin grew up in a deprived pocket of east London; his family was close-knit but very religiously conservative. From a young age Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where gang violence was a fact of life.
1787754952 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: An empowering, witty and uplifting collection of coming out stories and advice from LGBTQ+ people from around the world, based on the hugely successful podcast 'Coming Out Stories.'