Book Releases: Nonfiction (January to June 2023)

New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the rules of our releases posts are clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of those posts, for genres listed below, and we update each one every month with new books coming out (that we know about). Every post covers half a year.

In this one, you can browse the nonfiction books from January to June of 2023!

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JANUARY

Bisexual Men Exist by Vaneet Mehta (studies & theory)
Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend by Dan Jones (lit studies)
All the Things They Said We Couldn’t Have: Stories of Trans Joy ed. by Tash Oakes-Monger (essays)
Ann Walker: The Life and Death of Gentleman Jack’s Wife by Rebecca Batley (biography)
The Specter of Materialism by Petrus Liu (studies & theory)
Fieldwork by Iliana Regan (memoir)
Courage in Her Cleats: The Story of Soccer Star Abby Wambach by Kim Chaffee & Alexandra Badiu (biography)
Black on Black by Daniel Black (essays)
Collect Call to My Mother by Lori Horvitz (essays)
The Splendid Disarray of Beauty by Richard Mohr (biography)

FEBRUARY

Choosing Family by Francesca Royster (memoir)
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H (memoir)
A Pill for Promiscuity ed. by Andrew R. Spieldenner & Jeffrey Escoffier (studies & theory)
Unsafe Words ed. by Shantel Gabrieal Buggs & Trevor Hoppe (essays)
Am I Trans Enough? by Alo Johnston (studies & theory)
Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? by Craig Seligman (biography)
Transitional by Munroe Bergdorf (memoir)
Matchmaking in the Archive ed. by E. G. Crichton (essays)
I Thought You Loved Me by MariNaomi (memoir)
I’m Never Fine: Scenes and Spasms on Loss by Joseph Lezza (memoir/essays)
You’re That Bitch by Bretman Rock (memoir/essays)
69 Exhibition Road by Dorothy Max Prior (memoir)
Wanting: Women Writing About Desire ed. by Margot Kahn & Kelly McMasters (studies & theory)
Between Banat by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali (studies & theory)
Clara at the Door with a Revolver by Carolyn Whitzman (history)
How to Write Erotica by Rachel Kramer Bussel (handbook)

Harvey Milk: No to Homophobia by Safia Amor, trans. by Ruth Diver (biography)
Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Louisa Gordon (biography; reprint)
Kids on the Street by Joseph Plaster (history)
Messy Bitch Magic by Ani Ferlise (memoir)
Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix (memoir)
Believable by Lola Flash (photoessays)
Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean by Carlos Ulises Decena (studies & theory)
Crip Colony by Sony Coráñez Bolton (studies & theory)
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Transgender Studies ed. by J. E. Sumerau (studies & theory)
Freddie Mercury by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Ruby Taylor (biography)
Marry Me a Little by Robert Kirby (memoir)

MARCH

Fat Off, Fat On by Clarkisha Kent (memoir)
Reaching Ninety by Martin Duberman (memoir)
Tweakerworld by Jason Yamas (memoir)
The Best Strangers in the World by Ari Shapiro (memoir)
Raving by McKenzie Wark (music studies)
Running by Lindsey A. Freeman (memoir)
Black and Queer on Campus by Michael P. Jeffries (studies & theory)
On Christopher Street by Michael Denneny (studies & theory)
Ace Notes by Michele Kirichanskaya (studies & theory)
Finding the Fool by Meg Jones Wall (studies & theory)
Coming Home by Sawyer Cole Hobson (memoir)
Keep Sweet by Joshua Gonzales (memoir)
In Limbo: A Graphic Memoir by Deb JJ Lee (memoir)

APRIL

Ay Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico by Christine Suggs (memoir)
Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? by Zach Zimmerman (essays)
Anything That Moves by Jamie Stewart (memoir)
In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian’s Memoir of Trauma and Healing by Jody Lulich (memoir)
The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour (memoir/essays)
Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain by Jeremy Seabrook (memoir)
Justice Is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for Rbg by Leslie Karst (memoir)
365 Gays of the Year by Lewis Laney (biography)
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 by Luke Turner (history)
Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents by Marea Goodman & Ray Rachlin (guide)
Not Everyone is Going to Like You: Thoughts from a Former People Pleaser by Rinny Perkins (essays)
David Hockney by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Ana Albero (biography)
Emily Dickinson Face to Face by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (memoir; reprint)

MAY

The Yards Between Us by Ryan Russell (memoir)
A Very Gay Book by Nic Scheppard & Jenson Titus (comedy)
Cry, Baby by Benjamin Perry (studies & theory)
Rainbow Parenting by Lindz Amer (studies & theory)
The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt (social studies)
Hi Honey, I’m Homo! by Matt Baume (media studies)
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby (essays)
Wild Dances by William Lee Adams (memoir)
Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex by Justice Roe Williams, Roc Rochon & Lawrence Koval (studies & theory)
Horse Barbie by Geena Rocero (memoir)
Park Cruising by Marcus McCann (studies & theory)
Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History by Dan Glass (social science, travel)
Young Queer America by Maxwell Poth (studies & theory)
Pleasure and Efficacy by Grace Elisabeth Lavery (history)
A Renaissance of Our Own by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle (memoir)
Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs by Andrew Rannells (essays)
Boy Wander by Jobert E. Abueva (memoir)

Boyslut by Zachary Zane (memoir/essays)
A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas (memoir)
The Pride Atlas by Maartje Hensen (travel)
Who Needs Gay Bars? by Greggor Mattson (studies & theory)
The Queer Parent: Everything You Need to Know From Gay to Ze by Lotte Jeffs & Stu Oakley (studies & theory)
From Here by Luma Mufleh (memoir)
I Felt the End Before it Came by Daniel Allen Cox (memoir)
What Needs To Be Said by Alex Reegan (memoir)
Castro to Christopher: Gay Streets of America 1979–1986 by Nicholas Blair (history/photoessay)
Multiamory: Essential Tools for Modern Relationships by Jase Lindgren, Dedeker Winston & Emily Sotelo Matlack (studies & theory)
The New Masculinity by Alex Manley (social studies)
The DC Book of Pride ed. by Jadzia Axelrod (media history)
I Have Something to Tell You (Young Readers’ Edition) by Chasten Buttigieg (memoir)
Rebel Girls Celebrate Pride: 25 Tales of Self-Love and Community by Rebel Girls & Elena Favilli (history)
A Child’s Introduction to Pride by Sarah Prager & Caitlin O’Dwyer (history)
Tegan and Sara: Junior High by Tegan Quin & Sara Quin (memoir)
Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America’s First Transgender Senator by Meeg Pincus & Meridth McKean Gimbel (biography)

JUNE

Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza (biography/memoir)
Moby Dyke by Krista Burton (travel)
Pageboy by Elliot Page (memoir)
Through the Groves by Anne Hull (memoir)
Tar Hollow Trans by Stacy Jane Grover (essays)
Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper (memoir)
We Can Be Heroes by Paul Burston (memoir)
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It by Greg Marshall (memoir)
To Name the Bigger Lie by Sarah Viren (memoir)
Queer Premises by Ben Campkin (studies & theory)
TransElectric: My Life as a Cosmic Rock Star by Cidny Bullens (memoir)
Contemporary Queer Chinese Art ed. by Hongwei Bao, Diyi Mergenthaler & Jamie J. Zhao (art studies)
Queer Lives Across the Wall by Andrea Rottmann (history)
Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney (memoir)
We Set the Night on Fire by Martha Shelley (memoir)
Diana: My Graphic Obsession by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth (memoir)
Turning Japanese: Expanded Edition by MariNaomi (memoir)
Morally Straight by Mike De Socio (history)
The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir by Lynn Curlee (memoir)
Trans Children in Today’s Schools by Aidan Key (studies & theory)
Gender Identity for Kids by Andy Passchier (studies & theory)
She Persisted: Rachel Levine by Lisa Bunker (biography)

The Way From Me to Us by Mike Coleman (memoir)
Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson (memoir)
Becoming Us by Jake & Hannah Graf (memoir)
Then There Was You by Sophie Cachia (memoir)
Flash Point by Christy Warren (memoir)
Stories of Now ed. by Henri Rex (essays)
Inside the Circle by Casey James Miller (studies & theory)
X-Gender, Vol. 2 by Asuka Miyazaki (memoir)
Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit by Jane Wellesley (biography)
Not Like Other Dads by Sean Szeps (memoir)
To Find a Killer by Doug Greco (history)
Soldiers Don’t Go Mad by Charles Glass (history)

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