Item category 2: LGBT

There are a whole range of issues currently troubling the Church of England, from gay marriage via women bishops to how much it should speak out on social justice. Can the Anglican Communion worldwide find ways of disagreeing profoundly on these and other concerns, without splitting off from each...

A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his wings as a drag artist, The Black Flamingo. A bold story about the power of embracing your uniqueness. Sometimes, we need to take charge, to stand up wearing pink feathers - to show ourselves to the ...

Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist, Grace. It's not the most obvious...

Enid is many things: lesbian, serial dater, deaf in one ear, space obsessive, true crime fanatic. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life with her estranged half-sisters, she starts to worry that someone is following her. As her paranoia ...

Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist, Grace. It's not the most obvious...

There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that oust...

On May 23, 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. The next day Section 28 passed into UK law, forbidding local authorities from the teaching 'of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family r...

While trans masculine experience is often neglected in the media, this memoir captures what life is really like as a trans man today. Caspar Baldwin uses his experiences to open up wider debates about how we impose gender on children, what cis people don't understand about the transition process,...

Is masculinity 'toxic'? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for whom? Why might we all benefit from challenging binary thinking about sex/gender? In this illustrated guide, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele travel through our sh...

An essential guide to sexuality from the authors of 'How to Understand Your Gender'. It explores the topic through a social, cultural and historical lens, with reflection points and activities throughout. Covering a diverse range of sexualities and relationship structures, the authors invite the ...