Item category 2: LGBT

Tiny McAllister never thought she'd get married. Not because she didn't want to, but because she didn't think girls from Connecticut married other girls. Yet here she is with Caroline, the love of her life, at their destination wedding on the Bermuda coast. In attendance, their respective familie...

Here is a luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple c...

'I know,' he says, 'too much. You'll learn to be too much, too.' Then, gently, 'I think it might help.' When Julia flees her unhappy marriage for the handsome tailor Eve Perret, she expects her life from now on will be a challenge, not least because the year is 1911. They leave everything behind ...

Vetty's family is moving back to London, and all she can think about is seeing Pez again. They were inseparable when they were small - roaming the city in the long summers, sharing everything. But everyone's telling her it'll be different now. After all, a boy and a girl can't really be friends w...

'All the Things She Said' explores the nature of queerness and queer culture from the dingy basement clubs of east London to the realms of TikTok and award-winning films like 'Carol', showing the multifaceted nature of 'being a lesbian' in all its glory. Here journalist Daisy Jones unpicks outdat...

In 1986, 26-year-old Ruth Corker Burks visits a friend in hospital when she notices that the door to one of the patient's rooms is painted red. The nurses are reluctant to enter, drawing straws to decide who will tend to the sick person inside. Out of impulse, Ruth herself enters the quarantined ...

In this volume, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie...

In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango's family is not like any of the others.

Based on a true story, this charming and heart-warming tale proves that all you need to make a family is love.