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Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love 9780674032392
RRP: €30.88Booksplease Price: €24.75Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that... -
Maggie & Me by Damian Barr
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.19A unique, tender and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Margaret Thatcher years ________________________ 'Shocking and funny in equal measure, and will have you weeping with laughter and sorrow' Independent on... -
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill 9780226527284
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €27.62We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind. So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson... -
The Only Way Through Is Out by Suzette Mullen 9780299345501
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €24.00Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe-and she hated causing others pain. With college and law degrees, a kind and successful husband, two thriving adult sons, and an ocean-view vacation home, she lived a life many people would envy. But beneath... -
Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families by Finn V. Gratton
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €29.61Providing advice on how professionals working with autistic trans youth and adults can tailor their practice to best serve their clients and how parents can support their trans autistic children, this book increases awareness of the large overlap between... -
Everybody by Olivia Laing
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesFrom the award-winning author of Crudo, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom - from gay... -
Bang!: Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities by Vic Liu
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621063858Author Vic LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.14#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Book of the Year and Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2023Shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Awards and Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2023'Powerful' New York Times'Written... -
Pride: The Inspiring True Story Behind the Hit Film by Tim Tate 9781786062918
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.41In 1984, a small group of metropolitan homosexual men and lesbian women stepped away from the vibrant culture and hedonism of London's defiant gay scene to befriend and support the beleaguered villages of a very traditional mining community in the remote... -
The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage 9780571358373
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.97A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author.An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the... -
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp 9780006540441
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.14In this autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships. All of... -
Queer British Art:1867-1967: 1867-1967 by Clare Barlow
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.49In 1967, sex between consenting men in England and Wales was finally decriminalised - an entire century after the death penalty was abolished for sodomy in Britain in 1861. Between these legal landmarks lies a century of seismic shifts in gender and... -
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.57Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution - or worse - Polari offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage, a way of expressing... -
Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement by Matthew Todd
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.36In June 1969, police raided New York gay bar the Stonewall Inn. Pride charts the events of that night, the days and nights of rioting that followed, the ensuing organization of local members of the community - and the 50 years since in which activists... -
Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry by Evan Wolfson 9780743264594
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743264594Author Evan WolfsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall 9780241575734
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.13Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a... -
Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.77'Odets's warm and lyrical voice, his inspiring picture of how imaginative gay life can be, has sent me queuing for the couch.' Evening Standard'A gay man could read this book as if his life depended on it - and perhaps it does' Andrew Holleran, author... -
A Clinician's Guide to Gender Identity and Body Image: Practical Support for Working with Transgender and Gender-Expansive Clients by Heidi Dalzell
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €32.15This accessible guide for clinicians and clinical students working in the fields of eating disorders and transgender health psychology offers useful tips, constructive case studies and reflective questions that enable readers to feel better equipped in... -
Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between by Amrou Al-Kadhi
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.40A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020 WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Amrou knew they were gay when,... -
Dazzling Darkness - 2nd edition: Gender, Sexuality, Illness and God by Rachel Mann
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849527439Author Rachel MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm)... -
Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister The Official Companion to the BBC Series by Sally Wainwright
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.38The real Anne Lister, and the official companion to the hit BBC series created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones.In Gentleman Jack, historian and series consultant Anne Choma draws from the explosive diaries of Anne Lister to recreate the... -
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema Willow Maclay 9781914420580
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.77In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order - relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn... -
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.96First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the... -
The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture by Liam Konemann 9781912489404
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €6.34In April 2019, Liam Konemann idly began work on what he thought of as 'the appendix' - a record of ongoing transphobia in the UK that he came across. But when his mental health began to spiral, he turned his attention to a different topic instead: how do... -
README.txt: A memoir from one of the world’s most famous whistleblowers by Chelsea Manning 9781529110623
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.77An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2013, Chelsea Manning was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison for the largest leak of classified documents in... -
Against The Law Peter Wildeblood 9781474612524
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.59'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter WildebloodIn March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu... -
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.97In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's... -
Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft Lynn Cassells 9781645020707
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.28[F]or anyone who has ever sat in a city office dreaming of owning a smallholding one day and living off the land, this book will inspire them to take the plunge. Rated 5 stars by The Telegraph I raced through this beautiful story with mounting awe and... -
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz 9780814757284
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €18.23The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the... -
Love That Journey For Me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt's Creek by Emily Garside 9781912489343
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €6.34Love That Journey For Me dives deep into the cultural sensation of Canadian comedy-drama Schitt's Creek. Considering the fusion of existing sitcom traditions, references and tropes, this Inkling analyses the nuance of the show and its surrounding... -
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You by S. Bear Bergman 9781551522647
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Transgender) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781551522647Author S. Bear BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Arsenal Pulp... -
A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery by Harry Nicholas
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.61'On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both - to exist in the hazy terrain between.'After his relationship with his... -
The Little Book of Pride: Quotes to live by Orange Hippo! 9781911610465
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.4150 years of Pride in the words of those who changed the world. Half a century has passed since 2,000 people marched in the very first Pride march, in New York City. It was a moment when the LGBT+ community rose up against centuries of hatred and... -
All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy by Tash Oakes-Monger 9781839971495
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.61'Transition has not been something linear for me, my joy has come in seasons.'Now, more than ever, trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through... -
Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy by Edward Stein
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €48.23Perhaps the foremost issue in the emerging area of inquiry known as lesbian and gay studies is the social constructionist controversy. Social constructionism is the view that the categories of sexual orientation are cultural constructs rather than... -
Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics by Michael G. Long 9781479818495
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.16Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of a massive crowd at... -
The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.35'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to... -
Gender Euphoria: Stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers by Laura Kate Dale
Booksplease Price: €13.22'Earlier in my life and in my transition, Gender Euphoria would be the book that I needed' Chelsea Manning'Upends the baked-in narrative about pain and unhappiness . . . This book'll inspire you' Christine Burns MBEGENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of... -
Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories by Adam Nathaniel Furman
Booksplease Price: €50.60An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana, where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua, occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. Queer people have always found ways to exist and be ... -
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock 9780715654927
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.31'Lovingly detailed and exhaustively researched - easily the most readable and comprehensive guide I've seen to this fascinating hidden history' Tom Robinson, musician, broadcaster and long-time LGBT rights activist From Sia to Elton John, Dusty...