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• Queer as Folklore

  the Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

  Coward, Sacha,

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  Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queer Enlightenments

  a Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers

  Delaney, Anthony,

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  Unfolding between 1726 and 1836, Queer Enlightenments is an inviting, at times deeply affecting, journey through the taverns, prisons, and cruising grounds of a bygone era and into the lives of aristocrats, tradesmen, and sex workers who won or lost…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Queer Thing About Sin

  Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love

  Tanner, Harry,

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  This is a powerful story that draws on the rich world of the ancients to reveal how homophobia infected Western religion and ideology - the consequences of which we are still living with today - and to that end how we can move forward and resist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cruising the Downtown

  Celebrating Edmonton's Queer History

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• Crooked Teeth

  a Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

  Ramadan, Ahmad Danny,

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  Starting with his family’s humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing to the city’s underground network of queer safe homes; to a clandestine party at a secluded villa in Cairo; through Arab Spring uprisings across…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queer Mythology

  Epic Legends From Around the World

  Sanchez, Guido A.,

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  Some of these myths are not widely known. Others are myths that you may think you know, but over time their inherent queerness has been erased. Queer Mythology offers fresh retellings, paired with beautiful illustrations, to give new life and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Other Olympians

  Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

  Waters, Michael, 1997-

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  The story of the groundbreaking trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who set the stage for today's culture wars.

• The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie

  Infinite Identities Around the World

  Wind, Lee,

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  Author Lee Wind takes readers across the globe to examine gender identity and representation throughout history. Learn how cultures both past and present debunk the idea of a gender binary.

• Rainbow History Class

  Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History

  McElhinney, Hannah,

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  So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney, writer and creator of Rainbow History Class (as seen on TikTok), is here to help us all with this crash course.

• This Has Always Been a War

  the Radicalization of a Working-class Queer

  Fox, Lori,

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  In essays that are both accessible and inspiring, Lori Fox examines their confrontations with the capitalist patriarchy through their experiences as a queer, non-binary, working-class farm hand, labourer, bartender, bush-worker, and road dog,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before We Were Trans

  a New History of Gender

  Heyam, Kit, 1990-

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  Blending historical analysis  with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reclaiming Two-Spirits

  Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

  Smithers, Gregory D., 1974-

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  A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.

• Queer Power

  a Celebration of Icons, Activists and Game Changers From Across the Rainbow

  Dom & Ink,

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  Celebrate some of the modern-day trailblazers, champions and icons who have shaped, or are shaping our world, from well-known public figures and allies to others you will wish you had heard of earlier.

• Out North

  An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada

  Jennex, Craig,

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  The ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archive in the world, is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and celebrating the stories and histories of LGBTQ2+ people in Canada.

• We Have Always Been Here

  a Queer Muslim Memoir

  Habib, Samra,

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  Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, they faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. From their…Read moreRead more of this annotation