Nonfiction books about queer history, including memoirs, coffee table books, graphic novels, picture books, middle grade and more ! :)
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last updated August, 2026
Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
Sue Hyde
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
Margot Canaday
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
Debbie Cenziper
What Was Stonewall?
Nico Medina
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
David France
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation
Matthew Riemer
We Have Always Been Here
Samra Habib
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline Tourmaline
Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes From Past and Present!
Arabelle Sicardi
A Short History of Queer Women
Kirsty Loehr
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
June Thomas
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known
George M. Johnson
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line
Elizabeth Lovatt
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaulâs Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
Tom Fitzgerald
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
Julia Shaw
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
Krista Burton
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
Samantha Allen
The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook
Ashley Molesso
Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ
Andy Campbell
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
Sacha Coward
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
Sarah Prager
The LGBTQ + History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)
D.K. Publishing
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Jules Gill-Peterson
The Stonewall Reader
New York Public Library
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
Michael Waters
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Hugh Ryan
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
Grace Perry
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