QBC’s Past Reads

Queer Book Club Reads & Intersection

• Queer Latinx writers
  1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Sáenz, Benjamin Alire (Mexican American, gay)
  2. Juliet Takes a Breath Rivera, Gabby (Puerto-Rican, trans)
  3. Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World De Erauso, Catalina (Spanish, trans)
  4. More Happy Than Not Silvera, Adam (Puerto Rican, gay)

• Queer female writers
  1. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For Bechdel, Alison
  2. On a Sunbeam Walden, Tillie
  3. One Last Stop McQuiston, Casey
  4. Nightwood Barnes, Djuna (poly)

• Queer Asian writers
  1. Females Chu, Andrea Long (Trans female writer, partially of Chinese descent)
  2. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel Vuong, Ocean (Vietnamese, gay)
  3. The Magic Fish: (A Graphic Novel) Nguyen, Trung Le (Vietnamese-American, gay)

• Gay Jewish writers

1. Two Boys Kissing Levithan, David
2. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Kushner, Tony

• Queer Black female writers

1. Falling in Love with Hominids Hopkinson, Nalo (Caribbean, raised in Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada)
2. You Should See Me in a Crown Johnson, Leah

• Cherokee Two-Spirit and Queer writer, also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage descent
  1. Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory Driskill, Qwo-Li

• Female writer
  1. The Song of Achilles: A Novel Miller, Madeline

• Gay poet
  1. (he)art. Frederick, Zane

• Gay writer, Primarily of Greek decent, but also of Middle-Eastern and Ashkenazi Jewish descent
  1. Happy-Go-Lucky Sedaris, David

• Queer Muslim writer
  1. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir Habib, Samra

• Queer writer

1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Broadway Edition Mitchell, John Cameron (nonbinary)
   • (co-writer, Stephen Trask is of Jewish descent)

• Trans male writer of Irish Catholic descent
  1. Tomboy Survival Guide Coyote, Ivan

• • Zines (various) from QZAP– the Queer Zine Archive Project