At the start of lockdown, I joined a Trans Discord chat. We share political education resources, help each other access trans healthcare, play D&D, have a book group reading Marx’s Das Kapital, share book and movie recommendations, and generally keep each other company through isolation. It was this group that introduced me to Larry Mitchell’s book The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions. I read it, listened to an audiobook of it, and read it again. It sunk into me and left me wanting more books with a similar vibe. Books about unapologetic queerness, with an edge of radical justice seeking. Books about the surreal magic of a Queer culture that rejects respectability.
Fiction
Children’s Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry & Theatre
Other books by Larry Kramer include Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist and his play The Normal Heart. Other books by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore include Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.
