IDAHOBIT

International Day Against LGBTIQA+ Discrimination is recognised on May 17. This marks the date in 1990 that homosexuality was removed from the WHO Classification of Diseases. Over two decades later, LGBTIQA+ communities still face discrimination – the stakes have never been higher to champion inclusion. We've curated a list of fiction and non-fiction titles here highlighting LGBTIQA+ characters, history, and issues.


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IDAHOBIT

International Day Against LGBTIQA+ Discrimination is recognised on May 17. This marks the date in 1990 that homosexuality was removed from the WHO Classification of Diseases. Over two decades later, LGBTIQA+ communities still face discrimination – the stakes have never been higher to champion inclusion. We've curated a list of fiction and non-fiction titles here highlighting LGBTIQA+ characters, history, and issues.


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A place of our own : six spaces that shaped queer women's culture
Thomas, June (Journalist)
Paper Book
Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important. A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces 'An...
Who's afraid of gender?
Butler, Judith
Paper Book
National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, W, and Esquire. "A profoundly urgent intervention." --Naomi Klein "A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in reimagining collective futurity." -- Claudia Rankine From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a...
Queer as folklore : the hidden queer history of myths and monsters
Coward, Sacha
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter...
Murder in the dressing room
Stars, Holly
Paper Book
A December 2025 RuPaul's Book Club Pick! A poisoned chocolate. A stolen dress. An elusive catburglar. Drag's not just dramatic, it's deadly. By day, Joe is a hotel accountant, invisibly sitting behind their desk and playing by the rules. By night,...
The Short Story of Queer Art : A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes and Breakthroughs
Hoskin, Dawn
Paper Book
The Short Story of Queer Art offers a fuller picture of the history of art - from the barriers broken and breakthroughs that queer artists have made, to the important contributions to key artistic movements, and the forgotten and obscured artists who are now being rediscovered and reassessed....
Stag dance : a novel & stories
Peters, Torrey
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory."--People "Hot, heartbreaking, and...
Those fatal flowers : a novel
Ives, Shannon
Paper Book
Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide in this epic adventure filled with sapphic longing and female rage-a debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint, and Natalie Haynes. Before, Scopuli. It has been centuries since...
Arthur and Teddy are coming out
Love, Ryan
Paper Book
The feel-good read of 2024. Perfect for fans of Mike Gayle, Beth O'Leary and Alice Oseman's Heartstopper. Selected as one of the Independent's 19 debut authors set to make their mark in 2023 'Gentle, honest and beautifully authentic' Julietta Henderson ...
Loud & proud : LGBTQ+ speeches that empower and inspire
Uglow, Tea
Paper Book
Loud and Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community and its allies that have changed our world, and the conversation. A sister volume to So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire, Loud and Proud...
Geraldine
Thompson, Andrea (Australian author)
Ebook
The story of a woman who changes the world that wants to change her. Geraldine is born with an adventurer' s heart. Whether it' s escaping from boarding school in Rhodesia, or buying hormones from the local speed dealer in Weston-super-Mare, Geraldine is open to all the world has to offer-- even if...
The transgender issue : an argument for justice
Faye, Shon
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Few books are as urgent as Shon Faye's debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we' Independent 'Unsparing, important and weighty ... a vitally needed antidote' Observer
Tomorrow Will Be Different Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
McBride, Sarah
Ebook
"A brave, powerful memoir" (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender member of Congress in U.S. history "The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for...
Dear cisgender people : a guide to trans allyship and empathy
Jones, Kenny Ethan
Paper Book
Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans? In this powerful, extensively researched, and deeply personal...
Nothing to hide : voices of trans and gender diverse Australia
Elkin, Sam
Paper Book
Nothing to Hide is Australia's first mainstream anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing, a powerful contribution to Australian letters.
Gender euphoria : stories of joy from trans, non binary and intersex writers
Dale, Laura Kate
Ebook
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