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Queer Reading List

(A short, noncomprehensive book list of LGBTQA literature, manifestos, and fiction, in English y en espanol. Una corta lista de los libros LGBTA.)

En Espanol

Ficcion:

Bayly, Jaime (2004).  El huracan lleva tu nombre. Barcelona, Espana: Planeta,

 

No Ficcion:

Marcus, Eric (2001).  Se elige? 300 preguntas y respuestas sobre la homosexualidad. New York: Random House Espanol.

 

Riesenfeld, Rina (2000). Papa, mama, soy gay. Una guia para comprender las orientaciones y preferencias sexuales de los hijos.  Mexic: Grijalbo: Hoja Casa.

 

Fernandez-Alemany y Andres Sciolla (1999). Marquitas y marimachos: guia completa de la homosexualidad. Madrid: Nuer.

 

Castaneda, Marina (1999).  La experiencia homosexual: para comprender la homosexualidad desde dentro y desde fuera. Mexico: Paidos.

 

Whitlock, Katherine (1992). Puentes de respeto: creacion de apoyo para la juventud lesbiana y homosexual. Santiago, Chile : Comité de Servicio Chileno Cuáquero.

 

In English:

Non-Fiction:

Anzaldua, Gloria (1987).  Borderlands/La Frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.

Baez, Joan, Jennifer Howd, Rachel Pepper, et al (2007). The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life: A Comprehensive Resource for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students and their Allies.  New York: Random House.

 

Bass, Ellen & Kaufman, Kate. (1996). Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and their Allies. New York: HarperCollins.

 

Bechdel, Alison (2006). Fun Home. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

 

Bernstein-Sycamore, Matt, ed (2006). Nobody Passes: Rejecting the World of Gender and Conformity.  Berkeley: Seal Press.

 

Bernstein-Sycamore, Mattilda, ed (2008).  That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.  New York: Soft Skull Press.

 

Berzon, Betty, ed. (2001). Positively Gay: New Approaches to Gay and Lesbian Life. Berkeley: Celestial Arts.

 

Bornstein, Kate (1998)My Gender Workbook. New York: Vintage Books

 

Bornstein, Kate (1994). Gender Outlaw. New York: Routledge.

 

Bornstein, Kate (2006).  Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. New York: Seven Stories Press.

 

Bruhm, Stephen and Natasha Hurley, eds.  Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children. University of Minnesota Press.

Carlin, Deborah and Jennifer Digrazia (2003). Queer Cultures. Prentice Hall.

 

Chernin, Kim (1997). My Life as a Boy. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books.

 

Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2000). Sexing the Body. New York: Basic Books.

Fuss, Diana, ed (1991).  Inside/Out:  Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories.  New York: Routledge.

 

Halberstam, Judith (1998).  Female Masculinity.  Durham and London: Duke University Press.

 

Hemphill, Essex (1991)Brother to BrotherNew Writings by Black Gay Men. Boston: Alyson Publications.

 

Huegel, Kelley (2003)GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing.

 

Hutchins, Loraine and Lani Kaahumanu, eds (1990). Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. Boston: Alyson Pub.

 

Kumashiro, Kevin K. (2004)Restored Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists. New York: Harrington Park Press.

 

Lorde, Audre. (1984). Sister Outsider. New York: The Crossing Press

 

Lorde, Audre (1982). Zami: A New Spelling of my Name. Massachusetts: Persephone Press.

 

Mallon, Gerald P (1999).  lets get this straight.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

 

Moraga, Cherríe and Gloria Anzaldua, eds. (1984). This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. New York: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press.

 

Muscio, Inga (1998). Cunt. Berkeley: Seal Press, 1998.

 

Namaste, Viviane (2000)Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transexual and Transgender People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Nestle, Joan et al. (2002)Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary. Los Angeles: Alyson Press.

 

Pascoe, C.J (2007).  Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School.  Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.

 

Roscoe, Will (1988). Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Sedgwick, Eve K (1990).  Epistemology of the Closet. Berkley: University of California Press.

 

Singer, Bennett L, ed. (1994). Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology. New York: New Press.

 

Sonnie, Amy (2000)Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology. Boston, MA: Alyson Pub.

 

Tobias, Andrew (1973). The Best Little Boy in the World. New York: G.P. Putnam Sons.

Trujillo, Carla, ed (1991). Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About. Berkeley: 3rd Woman Press.

 

.Wilchins, Riki (2004). Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer. Los Angeles: Alyson Books.

 

Windmeyer, Shane L (2006). The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students. New York: Alyson Publications, Inc.

 

Fiction

 

Baldwin, James (1988). Giovanni's Room. New York: Dell Publishing.

 

Bauer, Marion Dane, ed. (1994). Am I Blue? Coming Out From the Silence. New York: Harper Collins.

 

Brown, Rita Mae (1988). Rubyfruit Jungle. New York: Bantam.

de la Pena, Teri (2000). Margins.  Berkeley: Seal Press.

 

de la Pena, Teri (1993).  Faults.  Boston: Alyson Books.

 

Ensler, Eve (2001). The Vagina Monologues. New York: Villard Books.

Eugenides, Jeffrey (2002). Middlesex: A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

 

Feinberg, Leslie (1993). Stone Butch Blues. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand.

 

Garden, Nancy (1982). Annie On My Mind. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

 

Garden, Nancy (1996). Good Moon Rising. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

 

Hartinger, Brent (2002). The Geography Club. New York: Harper Tempest.

 

Howe, James (2003). The Misfits. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks.

 

Johnson, Maureen (2004). The Bermudez Triangle. New York: Razorbill.

 

Kerr, M.E. (1994). Deliver Us From Evie. New York: Harper Trophy.

 

Levithan, David (2003). Boy Meets Boy. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers.

 

MacLean, Judy (2003)Rosemary and Juliet. New York: Alice Street Editions.

 

Peters, Julie Anne (2003). Keeping You a Secret. New York: Little, Brown.

 

Peters, Julie Anne (2004). Luna. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co.

 

Reardon, Robert (2007). A Secret Edge. New York: Kensington.

 

Salat, Cristina (1993)Living in Secret. New York: Bantam.

 

Selvadurai, Shyam (2005). Swimming in the Monsoon Sea. New York: Tundra Books.

 

Sanchez, Alex (2001)Rainbow Boys. New York: Simon & Schuster.

 

Silva, K.E. (2006). A Simple Distance. New York: Akashic Books.

 

Sinclair, April (1994). Coffee Will Make You Black. New York: Hyperion.

 

Tea, Michelle (2006)Roses of No Mans Land. San Francisco: MacAdams/Cage Pub.

 

Trujillo, Carla (2003).  What Night Brings.  Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press.

 

Eugenides, Jeffrey (2002). Middlesex.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

 

Hardy, Mark (2008).  Nothing Pink. Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Front Street, 2008.

 

Lisa C. Moore, ed (1998).  Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories.  Washington D.C.: Redbone Press.

 

Pearson, Felicia "Snoop" with David Ritz (2007)Grace After Midnight: A Memoir. New York: Grand Central Publishing.

 

Woodson, Jacqueline (1995). From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun. New York: Scholastic.

 

 

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