OUTstages 2026

Books and other library things to enjoy alongside the performances at Intrepid Theatre's OUTstages Festival, running January 29 to February 7, 2026.

Updated December 12, 2025
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Didn't we almost have it all in defense of Whitney Houston
Kennedy, Gerrick
Paper Book
On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In the decade since, the world has mourned her death amid new revelations about her relationship to her Blackness, her sexuality, and her addictions. Didn't We Almost Have It All<...
A history of my brief body
Belcourt, Billy-Ray
Paper Book
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. For readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot,...
How you get famous ten years of drag madness in Brooklyn
Pasulka, Nicole
Paper Book
A madcap adventure through a tight-knit world of drag performers making art and mayhem in the greatest city on earth. Ten years ago, an aimless coat check girl better known today as Merrie Cherry sweet-talked her boss into giving her $100 to host a drag show at a Brooklyn dive...
Sister outsider : essays and speeches
Lorde, Audre
Paper Book
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. "[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive,...
The sparsholt affair
Hollinghurst, Alan
Paper Book
"Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst." --Esquire From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex...
Unprotected a memoir
Porter, Billy
Ebook
From Billy Porter, the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, Unprotected is a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing.   "Bold, hilarious, honest, and singular . . . Unprotected is a record of survival,...

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