Book Releases: Nonfiction (July to December 2022)

The end of June means a fresh lot of releases posts! You know the drill so far, I assume. We update each post with LGBT releases in each genre every month, and then, when we find more, we can come back and do so again! It’s a win for everyone I’m sure.

In this post, you’ll find the collection of nonfiction books that we know about from July to December of 2022!

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JULY

🌈 Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: Second Edition ed. by Laura Erickson-Schroth (studies & theory)
🌈 Love from the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder (memoir)
🌈 Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher (memoir)
🌈 All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt (memoir)
Agent Josephine by Damien Lewis (biography)

🌈 In Our Blood by Caitlin Billings (memoir)
🌈 If You’re a Kid Like Gavin by Kyle Lukoff, Gavin Grimm & J Yang (biography)
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik by Winston James (biography)
🌈 In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson (studies & theory)
🌈 The Crane Wife by C. J. Hauser (memoir)

Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora by B Camminga & John Marnell (studies & theory)
🌈 Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous by Gerald Hannon (memoir)
🌈 Your Place or Mine? by Gilles Dauvé (studies & theory)
🌈 Prepare for Departure by Mark Chesnut (memoir)
I Lay This Body Down: The Transatlantic Life of Rosey E. Pool by Lonneke Geerlings (biography)

Fashionable Masculinities ed. by Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy & Pamela Church Gibson (essays)
Jewish Lesbian Scholarship in a Time of Change ed. by Marla Brettschneider (studies & theory)
Manifestations of Queerness in Video Games by Gaspard Pelurson (studies & theory)
Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies by Jacqueline Warwick (studies & theory)
Tales from the Fatherland by Ben Fergusson (memoir)

AUGUST

🌈 Kind Like Marsha by Sarah Prager & Cheryl Thuesday (biography)
🌈 Knocking Myself Up by Michelle Tea (memoir)
🌈 None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza (memoir)
🌈 When I Was Red Clay by Jonathan T. Bailey (memoir)
🌈 Black Folk Could Fly by Randall Kenan (essays)

🌈 In the Margins by Shannon T. L. Kearns (memoir)
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights by Margaret A. Nash & Karen L. Graves (history)
🌈 Crisis and Care ed. by Adrian Shanker (essays)
🌈 Walk by Jonathon Stalls (self-help)
Gender Pioneers by Philippa Punchard (biography)

🌈 Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks (memoir)
🌈 I’m Not Broken by Jesse Leon (memoir)
Queer Kinship After Wilde by Kristin Mahoney (social studies)
🌈 Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead (environmental studies)
The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India by Mansi Choksi (social studies)

🌈 Acceptance by Emi Nietfeld (memoir)
🌈 Enjoy Me Among My Ruins by Juniper Fitzgerald (memoir)
Transgender in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Lives, Activisms, Culture ed. by Bojan Bilić, Iwo Nord & Aleksa Milanović (studies & theory)
A Deadname That Learned How to Live by Golden (memoir)

SEPTEMBER

🌈 Both Sides of the Fire Line: Memoir of a Transgender Firefighter by Bobbie Scopa (memoir)
🌈 A Visible Man by Edward Enninful (memoir)
🌈 Boy with the Bullhorn by Ron Goldberg (memoir)
Queer Forms by Ramzi Fawaz (studies & theory)
🌈 Burden of Ashes by Justin Chin (essays; reprint)

Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness? by Kevin Brazil (studies & theory)
🌈 A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays (memoir)
🌈 Sinkhole by Juliet Patterson (memoir)
🌈 Call Me Bill by Lynette Richards (biography)
🌈 Undoctored by Adam Kay (memoir)

🌈 Brown and Gay in LA by Anthony Christian Ocampo (biographies)
🌈 The Black Period by Hafizah Geter (memoir)
🌈 Crybaby by Cheryl E. Klein (memoir)
🌈 Gay Man Talking by Daniel Harding (studies & theory)
🌈 We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference by Sunil Gupta (essays)

Sylvia Rivera: Leaders Like Us by Kaitlyn Duling & David Wilkerson (biography)
Pink Triangle Legacies by Jake Newsome (history)
🌈 A Place Called Home by David Ambroz (memoir)
🌈 Half In: A Coming-of-Age Memoir of Forbidden Love by Felice Cohen (memoir)
🌈 No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon (essays)

🌈 A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor (essays)
Last Call Chicago: A History of 1001 LGBTQ-Friendly Taverns, Haunts & Hangouts by Rick Karlin & St. Sukie De La Croix (history)
LGBTQ+ Icons: A Celebration of Historical LGBTQ+ Icons in the Arts by David Lee Csicsko and Owen Keehnen (history)
The Red Widow by Sarah Horowitz (biography)
Feels Right by Kemi Adeyemi (studies & theory)

A Kiss Across the Ocean by Richard T. Rodríguez (studies & theory)
On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant (social studies)
🌈 Look Again by Elizabeth A. Trembley (memoir)
The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions ed. by Alison Halsall & Jonathan Warren (media studies)
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (studies & theory)

Cyclettes by Tree Abraham (essays)
Kinky in the Digital Age: Gay Men’s Subcultures and Social Identities by Liam Wignall (studies & theory)

OCTOBER

🌈 Heartstrings: Melissa Etheridge and Her Guitars by Melissa Etheridge, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Frank Mariffinno, Steve Hochman & Manuela Pertega (memoir)
🌈 It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror ed. by Joe Vallese (essays)
An Angel in Sodom: Henry Gerber and the Birth of the Gay Rights Movement by Jim Elledge (biography)
🌈 HERmione by H. D. (memoir; reprint)
🌈 Scenes from the Underground by Gabriel Cholette & Jacob Pyne, trans. Elina Taillon (memoir)

🌈 The Family Outing by Jessi Hempel (memoir)
🌈 Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine by Patricia Grayhall (memoir)
🌈 Towards Beauty by Dennis Garnhum (memoir)
🌈 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers ed. by Elias Jahshan (essays)
Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, Pioneer by Fatima Bremmer, trans. by Gloria Nneoma Onwuneme (biography)

🌈 Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood by John D’Emilio (memoir)
Dream Rooms by River Halen (essays)
🌈 README.txt by Chelsea Manning (memoir)
🌈 Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together by Elizabeth Weinberg (science)
To Be A Trans Man ed. by Ezra Woodger (interviews)

The Gender Friend by Oakley Phoenix (studies & theory)
🌈 Forever Home by Ron Danta, Danny Robertshaw & Larry Lindner (memoir)
🌈 Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec (memoir)
🌈 Soft Lad by Nick Grimshaw (memoir)
Difference is Born on the Lips by Michael Handrick (studies & theory)

🌈 When They Tell You to be Good by Prince Shakur (memoir)
🌈 Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili (essays)
Jan Morris by Paul Clements (biography)
🌈 Blue Movie by Stephan Ferris (memoir)
🌈 The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (essays)

🌈 A Quiet Foghorn: More Notes from a Deaf Gay Life by Raymond Luczak (essays)
🌈 Spy Daughter, Queer Girl: In Search of Truth and Acceptance in a Family of Secrets by Leslie Absher (memoir)
Beyond Worship by James Admans (essays)
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr (history)*

NOVEMBER

The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (studies & theory)
Rethinking Gender by Louie Läuger (studies & theory)
Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance by Lauron J. Kehrer (music studies)
🌈 A Guest at the Feast by Colm Tóibín (essays)
Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens by Ryan Pfluger (photoessays)

Lioness: My Journey to Glory by Beth Mead & Katie Whyatt (memoir)
Too Much by Tom Allen (memoir)
Carrie Kills a Man by Carrie Marshall (memoir)
Queer Behavior by David J. Getsy (studies & theory)
A Secret I Can’t Tell: The First Generation of Children from Openly Gay and Lesbian Homes by Joe Gantz (history)

A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick (memoir)
Transformer by Simon Doonan (memoir)
I am Onir and I am Gay by Onir & Irene Dhar Malik (memoir)
My Pinup by Hilton Als (memoir)
I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing by Marshall Moore (memoir)

Dragging Away by Lex Morgan Lancaster (art studies)
Lesbian Death by Mairead Sullivan (studies & theory)
The Terrible We by Cameron Awkward-Rich (studies & theory)
Fearless Vulgarity by Ken Feil (studies & theory)
The Language of the In-Between by Erika Almenara (studies & theory)

Screening Queer Memory by Anamarija Horvat (film studies)
A Song for the Unsung by Carole Boston Weatherford & Rob Sanders (biography)
Dancing on the Volcano by Floor de Goede (memoir)
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Tóibín (essays)
🌈 Life in Lashes by Kita Mean (memoir)

Trans Sex by Kelvin Sparks (self-help)
Photo-Attractions by Ajay Sinha (photoessays)
🌈 Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead (essays)
🌈 A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by MB Caschetta (memoir/essays)
Queer Print in Europe by Glyn Davis & Laura Guy (history)

DECEMBER

Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine ed. by Alex Belser, Clancy Cavnar & Beatriz Caiuby Labate (studies & theory)
Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: Male Love, Intimacy, and Erotics, 1886 – 2014 ed. by Stephen D. Miller (literature studies)
🌈 Thirty-Thousand Steps by Jess Keefe (memoir)
🌈 Divergent Terror ed. by W. Dale Jordan (essays)
🌈 Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood by Mary Alice Hostetter (memoir)

The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights; Or, How the Right Divides Us by Arlene Stein (studies & theory)
🌈 Engine Running by Cade Mason (essays)
Of Maybugs and Men: A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality by Pieter R. Adriaens & Andreas De Block (science, history)
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler (essays)

*It is worth noting that we read a review copy of this and found its approach to be transphobic, as detailed in Charlotte’s review.

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