Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom

By (author) Jordan Tannahill
Foreword by Kirsten Bowen
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Award-winning playwright Jordan Tannahill is back with modern-day queer and feminist retellings of two momentous events—one historic, one mythic. Botticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter Sandro ...

Jonny Appleseed

By (author) Joshua Whitehead
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

2021 CANADA READS WINNER

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; ...

Scarborough

By (author) Catherine Hernandez
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, City of Toronto Book Award, and Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. A novel told in multiple voices, Scarborough is a raw yet empathetic glimpse into a troubled ...

Clothesline Swing, The

By (author) Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

The Clothesline Swing tells the epic story of two lovers anchored to the memory of a dying Syria. One is a Hakawati, a storyteller, keeping life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables to his ...

What the Mouth Wants

By (author) Monica Meneghetti
Categories: Biography: general

This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family, and love. As the youngest child of a traditional Italian-Catholic ...

Exiled for Love

By (author) Arsham Parsi & Marc Colbourne
Categories: Biography: general

A fast-paced memoir of Arsham Parsi, a queer Iranian activist forced to flee his country under threat of execution.

Exiled for Love follows Parsi’s incredible journey from his first understanding of ...

When Everything Feels like the Movies

By (author) Raziel Reid
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Governor General's Literary Award winner: a glamorous boy fends off the haters with dreams of going to Hollywood.

Governor General's Literary Award winner for Children's Literature; Canada Reads 2015 ...

Gender Failure

By (author) Ivan Coyote & Rae Spoon
Categories: LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies

Being a girl was something that never really happened for me. -Rae Spoon

Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender ...

Double Pregnant

By (author) Natalie Meisner
Categories: Relationships and families: advice and issues

Girl meets girl. Girl marries girl. They want to have babies … but they need a little help. Double Pregnant is author Natalie Meisner’s light-hearted, poignant and informative true story of two lesbians ...

Out Spoken

By (author) Wes D. Pearce & Jean Hillabold
Categories: LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies

“How is identity formed? If you were born in Canada, that makes you Canadian; if you were raised Jewish, that makes you a Jew, right? But what about a teenage boy from small town Saskatchewan who has ...