Dawson, Juno
Summary: "There's a long-running joke that, after coming out as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex person, you should receive a membership card and instruction manual. This is that instruction manual. You're welcome. Inside this revised and updated edition, you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask: from sex to politics, hooking up to stereotypes, coming out and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.76 DAWEisner, Shiri.
Summary: "Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics--from the issues surrounding biphobia/monosexism, feminism, and transgenderism to the practice of labeling those who identify as bi as either "too bisexual" (promiscuous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 EISAmherst, Michael
Summary: "Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Repeater Books, an imprint of Watkins Media, Ltd 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 AMHShaw, Julia
Summary: "A provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologist. Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decades in regards to sexuality, the subject remains one of the most influential but least understood aspects of our lives. For psychologist and bestselling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.765 SHACronn-Mills, Kirstin
Summary: Presents a history of the long struggles of LGBT atheletes to gain recognition and acceptance, describing some of the famous athletes from the past who were unable to reveal their genders and how social practices have changed and benefited current LGBT athletes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 796 CROSummary: "Even as the broader LGBT community enjoys political and societal advances in North America, the bisexual community still today contends with decades of misinformation stereotyping them as innately indecisive, self-loathing, and untrustworthy. Claiming the B in LGBT strives to give bisexuals a seat at the table. This guidebook to the history and future of the bisexual movement fuses a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorntree Press, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 CLASummary: In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of nonfiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer experience, from coming out to "passing" as straight to growing old to living proud. These are the stories of contemporary gay and lesbian life--and by definition, are funny, sad, hopeful, and truthful. Representing a diversity of genders, ages, races, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 FIRKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBMuldoon, Molly
Summary: "Asexuality is often called The Invisible Orientation. You don't learn about it in school, you don't hear "ace" on television. So, it's kinda hard to be ace in a society so steeped in sex that no one knows you exist. Too many young people grow up believing that their lack of sexual desire means they are broken--so writer Molly Muldoon and cartoonist Will Hernandez, both in the ace community,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Limerence Press, an imprint of Oni-Lion Forge Press Publishing Group, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 306.76 MULBurgess, Rebecca
Summary: "Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURYoung, Eris
Summary: Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2023