Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws
10 best books like Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws (Kate Bornstein): The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Boys Like Her: Transfictions, Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
| Author | David Levithan |
| ISBN | 0375832904 |
Teens are more aware of sexuality and identity than ever, and they’re looking for answers and insights, as well as a community of others. In order to help create that community, YA authors David Levithan and Billy Merrell have collected original poems, essays, and stories by young adults in their...
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
| Author | S. Bear Bergman |
| ISBN | 1551522640 |
Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces...
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary
| Author | Joan Nestle |
| ISBN | 1555837301 |
Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three...
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
| Author | Carol Queen |
| ISBN | 1573440744 |
This is probably the best book about gender and sexuality I've ever read. It discusses the many different facets of human sexuality that aren't necessarily mapped out by what you have between your legs or on your chest. In a world of cookie cutter voidoids who identify themselves purely by their sexuality...
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079510 |
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and...
| Author | Taste This |
| ISBN | 0889740860 |
Boys Like Her is a provocative collection of fiction and images from Taste This, a queer performance group including Anna Camilleri, Ivan Coyote, Zoe Eakle and Lyndell Mongomery. Kate Bornstein provides an introduction.
Boys Like Her is a road movie of young queer life. Four distinct voices...
| Author | Cris Beam |
| ISBN | 0151011966 |
When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might put in just a few hours volunteering at a school for transgender kids while she got settled. Instead she found herself drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. In Transparent she introduces four of...
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 1932360565 |
As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia,...
Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
| Author | Loraine Hutchins |
| ISBN | 1555831745 |
I loved the idea of a book like this, but the editors got it so wrong in the introduction. For me bisexuality is about equality, male, female, doesn't matter, all the same. But when debating on whether or not to include males in the book these Feminists wrote: Yes but their view on Bisexuality hasn't caught...
Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
| Author | Ryan Conrad |
| ISBN | 0615392687 |
While what feels like the entirety of the gay and lesbian movement is marching in unison towards some vague notion of equality, the Against Equality collective has been quietly assembling a digital archive to document the critical resistance to the politics of inclusion. This pocket-sized book of...
| Author | Sassafras Lowrey |
| ISBN | 0978597362 |
In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). Kicked Out brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some of our nation's most vulnerable citizens. Diverse contributors share stories...
| Author | Charlie Jane Anders |
| ISBN | 1932360816 |
Twelve-year-old choirboy Berry wants nothing more than to remain a choirboy. Choral music and the prospect of divinity thrill him. Desperate to keep his voice from changing, he tries unsuccessfully to castrate himself, and then convinces a clinic to treat him as a transsexual. Berry begins a series...
| Author | Sabrina Chapadjiev |
| ISBN | 1583228276 |
A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This (a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards) is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and...
| Author | Melissa Hart |
| ISBN | 1580052940 |
Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes. On the one hand there’s...
| Author | Kelly Huegel |
| ISBN | 1575421267 |
The teen years are full of challenges.
For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning teens, these challenges can include prejudice, discrimination, rejection, reprisals, insensitive remarks (even among friends and families) and, sometimes, violence.
But being...
| Author | Amy Sonnie |
| ISBN | 1555835589 |
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
| Author | Lois-Ann Yamanaka |
| ISBN | 0786814667 |
Had to read it for book club. Wouldn't have picked it otherwise, and probably won't read anything else by this author. Definitely would not recommend it.
Having lived in Hawaii for several years, I understood most of the pidgin/Hawaiian terms (like pau, haole, and ohana) and could even relate...
She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband
| Author | Helen Boyd |
| ISBN | 1580051936 |
Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her...
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
| Author | Morty Diamond |
| ISBN | 0916397963 |
Born female yet little identified with that gender, these transgender, genderqueer, third gender, and gender variant writers offer personal insights into changing gender identity, dating, workplace issues, and more. This book shines light on those who identify as FTM (female to male) and also...
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer
| Author | Riki Anne Wilchins |
| ISBN | 1555837980 |
A one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the core of postmodern theory, particularly its impact on queer and gender studies. Nationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins combines straightforward prose with concrete examples from LGBT and feminist politics, as well as her own life, to guide the...
Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex
| Author | Patrick Califia-Rice |
| ISBN | 1573441325 |
Hailed "a revolutionary antidote to America's growing sexual conservatism," Patrick Califia is the most outspoken and intelligent commentator on sexual politics writing today. Following the acclaimed publication of Public Sex and Sex Changes, Califia once again exposes American mainstream...
Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 0786717920 |
Michelle Tea, a favorite on the spoken-word scene and beloved in literary circles for books such as Valencia, Chelsea Whistle and most recently Rose of No Man's Land, has gathered new work by twenty-two of the most outstanding emerging voices in queer girl writing. Fiction is matched in excitement...
