Book Releases: Nonfiction (January to June 2024)

New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the way our releases posts work is clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of these posts, for the 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 2024!

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JANUARY

Sex with a Brain Injury by Annie Liontas (memoir)
I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace (memoir)
Greasepaint Puritan by Maya Cantu (biography)
Queer Villains of Myth and Legend by Dan Jones (history)
Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book ed. by Tom Cardamone (essays)
Swimming With Lord Byron by William Kuhn (biography)
Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement by Judith A. Houck (history)
Jeza’s Jesus Juice: A Drag Queen’s Christian Devotional by Jeza Belle (essays)

FEBRUARY

A Family, Maybe by Lane Igoudin (memoir)
Dinner on Monster Island by Tania De Rozario (essays)
Be Not Afraid of my Body by Darius Stewart (memoir)
Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt by Brontez Purnell (memoir)
Gaytheist by Lonnie Mann & Ryan Gatts (memoir)
A Bookshop of One’s Own by Jane Cholmeley (biography)
Surviving the Closet by Jo DeLuzio (memoir)
I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante (memoir)
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer (biography)
Queer Newark ed. by Whitney Strub (history)
The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example by Roger N. Lancaster (gay studies)
Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw by Ajuan Mance (memoir)
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith Jr. (memoir in verse)
Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda (memoir in verse)
Glenn Burke, Game Changer by Phil Bildner & Daniel J. O’Brien (biography)
Hooray for He, She, Ze and They by Lindz Amer (pronouns + gender)
It Was Her New York: True Stories & Snapshots by C.O. Moed (photoessay)
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World by Shayla Lawson (memoir)
I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop (memoir)

MARCH

Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler (theory)
Revolutionary Acts by Jason Okundaye (history)
Shift by Penny Guisinger (memoir)
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch (biography)
I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante (memoir)
Countless Sleepless Nights by Carina Maggar (essays)
I Finally Bought Some Jordans by Michael Arceneaux (essays)
Long Live Queer Nightlife by Amin Ghaziani (history)
Candy Darling by Cynthia Carr (biography)
Saving Face by Effy Redman (memoir)
Guest Privileges by Gaar Adams (memoir)
Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography by Jessica Max Stein (biography)
You Get What You Pay For by Morgan Parker (essays)
Thunder Song by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe (essays)
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles by Jem Milton (history)

APRIL

Hine Toa by Ngahuia te Awekotuku (memoir)
Mean Boys by Geoffrey Mak (memoir)
Dear Bi Men by J.R. Yussuf (studies & theory)
The Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, ed. by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell (letters)
Coming Out Republican by Neil J. Young (history)
In the Shadow of Diagnosis by Regina Kunzel (history)
Personal Score by Ellen Van Neerven (memoir; US release)
The New Queer Gothic by Robyn Ollett (lit studies)
No Son of Mine by Jonathan Corcoran (memoir)
Big Girls Don’t Fry by Fay Jacobs (memoir)
Jack and Eve by Wendy Moore (biography)
Broken Archangel by Roland Phillips (biography)
Love is Greater than AIDS by Rev. A. Stephen Pieters (memoir)
The Call Is Coming from Inside the House by Allyson McOuat (essays)
Reading Shakespeare Reading Me by Leonard Barkin (lit studies)
Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson (memoir)
Crazy Like a Fox by Christi Furnas (memoir)
My Mother and Other Wild Animals: An Essay by Andrew Sean Greer (essays)
Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin, trans. by Silvester Mazzarella (biography)
Homebody by Theo Parish (memoir)
The Queens’ English by Chloe O. Davis (history)
The ABCs of Queer History by Seema Yasmin & Lucy Kirk (history)
Pride: A Celebration in Quotes by Caitlyn McNeill (history)
Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration by Diego Blanco (activity book)

MAY

Cactus Country by Zoë Bossiere (memoir)
The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit by Julian Randall (memoir)
Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot by Jonathan Alexander (memoir)
Queer Power Couples by Hannah Murphy Winter (photoessay)
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays by Pedro Lemebel (essays)
Swole by Michael Andor Brodeur (social studies)
Inside Out: The Extraordinary Legacy of April Ashley by Douglas Thompson (biography)
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 by Peter Parker (history)
The Little Book of Pride Heroes: Icons of the LGBTQIA+ Community by Jared Richards (history)
My Child Is Trans, Now What? by Ben V. Greene (guide)
A Place of Our Own by June Thomas (history)
Pack Light by Shilletha Curtis (memoir)
Detachable Penis by Sam Elkin (memoir)
Crooked Teeth by Danny Ramadan (memoir)
It Ain’t Over til the Bisexual Speaks ed. by Vaneet Mehta & Lois Shearing (essays)
Shoulder to Shoulder by Jake Hall (history)
To Be Loved by Frank G. Anderson (memoir)
Splice of Life by Charles Jensen (memoir)
Queer Cheer: Activities, Advice, and Affirmations for LGBTQ+ Teens by Eric Rosswood & Jodie Anders (guide)
Queer Art by Gemma Rolls-Bentley (art history)
The Scandal of the Century by Lisa Hilton (biography)
Coming Home by Brittney Griner & Michelle Burford (memoir)
The T in LGBT by Jamie Raines (studies & theory)
The Diaries of Mr Lucas by Hugo Greenhalgh (memoir)
A Great Gay Book by Ryan Fitzgibbon (essays)
Out in the World by Mark Jason Williams & Amy Scher (travel guide)
Road Home by Rex Ogle (memoir)
Pretty by KB Brookins (memoir)
Breathe by Maia Kobabe & Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier (guide)
Queer History A to Z: 100 Years of LGBTQ+ Activism by Robin Stevenson & Vivian Rosas (history)

JUNE

The Other Olympians by Michael Waters (history)
Sense of Shifting by Coco Romack & Yael Malka (photoessay)
Shadow Men by James Polchin (history)
A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking): A Never-Coming-of-Age Story by Jess H. Gutierrez (essays)
Hiding for My Life by Karen Solt (memoir)
Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott (biography)
Why Are People Into That by Tina Horn (studies & theory)
Kissing Girls on Shabbat by Sara Glass (memoir)
Love Out Loud by Jarius Joseph & Terrell Joseph (memoir)
Make It Count by CeCé Telfer (memoir)
Free To Be by Jack Turban (studies & theory)
Lifting Off by Karen McLeod (memoir)
Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts—And America by Mike de Socio (history)
The Secret Public by Jon Savage (history)
The Queer Parent: Everything You Need to Know from Gay to Ze by Lotte Jeffs, Stu Oakley (guide)
Dear Cisgender People by Kenny Ethan Jones (essays)

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