Happy and Safe Pride

In honor of Pride Month and celebrating all of the amazing human beings, in their struggled to be themselves, live fully, and be safe from violence and oppression, I’m doing all I can to support LGBTQ+ writers and poets. Listed below are a group of wonderful authors and their work that you should check out. If you can buy from them directly do, and leave positive reviews if you have some to give. Each one is an opportunity to learn, to grow, to understand and to find connection. Not just this month, but every month. Enjoy and be the loving force for change you want to see in the world.

One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga WainainaAs Beautiful as Any Other: A Memoir of My Body by Kaya WilsonOne Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga WainainaAs Beautiful as Any Other: A Memoir of My Body by Kaya WilsonLa Bâtarde by Violette Leduc, translated by Derek ColtmanThe Truth About Me: a Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi, translated by V GeethaThe Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa SekyiamahThe Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark GevisserModern Nature by Derek JarmanMy Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi, translated by Jocelyne AllenPeople Change by Vivek ShrayaAsylum: A Memoir & Manifesto by Edafe OkporoWelcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis HancoxWe Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra HabibDear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke EmeziThe Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann ChinRed Azalea by Anchee MinMe Hijra, Me Laxmi by Laxminarayan Tripathi, translated by PG Joshi and R. Raj RaoThey Called Me Queer compiled by Kim Windvogel and Kelly-Eve KoopmanUnicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-KadhiAngry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim AliThérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc, translated by Sophie Lewis (1966)Maurice by EM Forster (1971)Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1928)America is Not the Heart by Elaine CastilloHotel World by Ali SmithLess by Sean Andrew GreerThe Price of Salt aka Carol by Patricia HighsmithValencia by Michelle TeaUnder the Udala Trees by Chinelo OkparantaPaper is White by Hilary ZaidStone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg.Orlando by Virginia WoolfGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinSodom Road Exit by Amber DawnAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony KushnerFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Book of Salt by Monique TruongTea by Stacey D’ErasmoTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAlice Isn’t Dead by Joseph FinkOranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonMarriage of A Thousand Lies by SJ SinduNightwood by Djuna BarnesTales of the City by Armistead MaupinClose to Spider Man by Ivan E. CoyoteJack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund WhiteA Single Man by Christopher IsherwoodFruit by Brian FrancisSalt Fish Girl by Larissa LaiMorrow Island by Alexis M. SmithPages for You by Sylvia BrownriggConfucius Jane by Katie LynchLittle Fish by Casey PlettSuch a Lonely, Lovely Road by Kagiso Lesego MolopeShe of the Mountains by Vivek ShrayaFor Today I Am A Boy by Kim FuThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerRubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae BrownDisoriental by Négar DjavadiSpeak No Evil by Uzodinma IwealaThe Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna NorthNever Anyone But You by Rupert ThomsonHood by Emma DonoghueBlue Boy By Rakesh SatyalMy Education by Susan ChoiHere Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis-BennAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzWe Are Okay by Nina LaCourSummer of Salt by Katrina Leno48 Shades Of Brown by Nick EarlsCall Me by Your Name by André Aciman (2007)The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak by Grace LauButcher by Natasha T. MillerWater I Won’t Touch by Kayleb Rae CandrilliThe Renunciations by Donika KellyBestiary by Donika KellyPaul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea LawlorYou Better Be Lightning by Andrea GibsonLord of the Butterflies by Andrea GibsonBlack Girl, Call Home by Jasmine MansBlack Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose KapriIf They Come for Us by Fatimah AsgharNothing is Okay by Rachel WileyCenzontle by Marcelo Hernández CastilloThe Tradition by Jericho BrownSoft Science by Franny ChoiBodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaNight Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean VuongWhen the Chant Comes by Kay Ulanday BarrettMore Than Organs by Kay Ulanday BarrettDon’t Call Us Dead by Danez SmithThings You Left Behind by Keondra Bills FreemynFemme in Public by Alok Vaid-MenonWild Embers by Nikita GillChelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (1994)

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