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In 'Love in a Dark Time', the author looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, figures in the main whose homosexuality remained hidden for much of their lives.

Prom is supposed to be the night you remember your whole life. But for 17-year-old Zach, it's about to become his whole life - after a kiss from a masked stranger, Zach finds himself stuck in a time loop, endlessly repeating the same day. Zach thinks that the only way to break the cycle is to wor...

Elsie Hoffman has been engaged to her college boyfriend for a year and a half. Ginny Holtz has been in love with Elsie for almost a decade and a half. When Elsie discovers her fiancé already planned their wedding and honeymoon as a surprise and she's expected to be in a white dress in seven days...

What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone? Across Lagos, Osunde's characters seek out love for self and their chosen partners, even as they risk ruining relationships with parents, spouses, family and friends.

On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village. Beholden to the expectations of home and family, his burgeoning desire - an ache for autonomy, tenderness and sex - threatens to unravel his shy exterior. Then he meets Luke. Unkempt and handsome, charismatic ...

Can you imagine it? I'd say to them. Can you imagine me there in the front row in Saint Peter's Square? The lesbian sister of a literal saint. Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now living in London with her girlfriend, determined to live day to day and not think too much about e...

New York, 1927. Separated from the reaper she loves, Elise Saint journeys through the city alone. But with the Saint family in decline and a lethal new reaper-venom drug on the market, Harlem is more dangerous than ever. And amidst this chaos, Elise's sister, Josi, goes missing. Layla Quinn, also...

Returning to Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, Fritz Bauer - a gay Jewish lawyer and outspoken critic of Hitler - was determined to reclaim the Germany he had once loved. But he soon saw that the perpetrators of the Holocaust had largely got away with their crimes. Top Nazi office...

In this landmark work, Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and finds a spirited community full of courage, charisma and good humour, hungry to tell its past - of nightlife, resistance, political fights, loss, gossip, sex, romance and vulgarity. Through their conversations he...

Patch has decided that this is the year he will get a boyfriend, so it's goodbye to his French pen-pal Jean-Pierre and hello to the world! Unfortunately, the only other 'out' boys in his school year are dating each other, so finding a boyfriend isn't going to be easy. Until fate finally intervene...