Huck Smith’s The Leaving Gene delivers a raw, bold collection of essays that examine a man's lifelong pattern of leaving before he is left. He is fifty-two, single, and newly settled in Dallas. These essays trace the origin of his exit instinct through childhood trauma:...

Shaley Howard’s Excuse Me, Sir! Memoir of a Butch is an honest and often darkly funny recounting of growing up queer, navigating identity, and spiraling through addiction before clawing her way back to herself. The book traces her life from childhood, marked by family instability,...

Holding On by a Thread by Stefonknee Wolscht is the bittersweet story of a transgender woman who decided to shed the oppressive mask and reveal her true self. Walking away from 23 years of marriage wasn’t easy, but when her wife gave her an ultimatum,...

In his memoir Last August, Joe Gulla shares the month he believes will be his mother Mary Ann’s final one at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Alzheimer’s has brought Mary Ann to the hospice, where ordinary conversation has stopped, yet Joe keeps arriving with the...

In Can't Pray the Gay Away, I. Ugbomah argues that many LGBTQ+ people reject Christianity because their encounters with churches convinced them that Jesus was hostile toward them. Using her own life as the foundation of the book, she describes growing up outside religion in...

Scientific research on a cure for HIV has come a long way since the 1980s. But there is still progress to be made. With Holding HIV, Pauline Sameshima, Emily Turner, and Dazié Grego-Sykes present an enthralling collection of poems. Inspired by members of San Francisco's...

Author Bruce Parkinson Spang looks back at his life and shares his memories in this enthralling poetry collection. Twist contains poems in which Spang recalls all those momentous events that left a mark on his life. From the joys of experiencing one's first real kiss...

In his memoir Poking Fun at My Pusillanimity: A Queer Southern Becoming, Kenneth Cupp describes living with his mother and step-father in MawMaw Elsie’s house after leaving a crowded trailer, sharing space in closely monitored and conservative routines. At school, he's repeatedly bullied by Rob,...

Gay Marriage After Retirement: 25 Questions for Gay Couples to Ask and Answer Before You Marry by Amy Rose Herrick is an excellent guide for any couple, gay or straight, to use in their senior years. Several important points stood out to me. First, financial...

Luke Stoffel’s The Third Person: Rewriting Him (The Warboy Chronicles) is a genre-blending travel memoir and emotional self-investigation that follows a man unraveling in the aftermath of heartbreak. The narrative begins with Luke’s breakup with “Warboy,” a relationship defined by absence, longing, and unfinished endings,...