Item category 1: LGBTQ+

This work reveals the touching and very personal stories of 25 women, including the author, who were widowed at a young age and forced to create a new life without their life partners.

Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day but at night he transforms himself into Luna, with the help of Regan's clothes and makeup. Now everything is about to change, as Luna is preparing to emerge from her cocoon. Are Liam's family and friends ready to welcome her into th...

With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity - his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candour - while elegantly explaining his work and its implications.

A gay psychologist demonstrates how to heal the trauma of being a gay man in an uncompromisingly straight world.

Clark Gable was perceived as the archetypal Hollywood supermensch, the kind of man women lusted after & their husbands envied. However, as David Bret reveals in this biography, in the early days of his career Gable was more of a man's man than a ladies man, displaying strong bisexual tendences.

An insightful take on the search for love, tolerance and faith in a tightly-knit Jewish community in London, 'Disobedience' follows the story of Ronit, who is returing to the capital on the occasion of the funeral of her estranged father.

'Fair Play' portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island.

'She's Not the Man I Married' is an extraordinary examination of relationships, not just those of cross-dressers with their partners, but also of those who question and bend gender roles.

As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography - life from A to Z - and explores issues of friendship, family, school, and the challenges of being a gay teenager.