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Nevada is a novel hailed for revolutionizing the trans literary scene, being one of the first published about a trans women. It follows Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, stuck and stagnating in New York. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria steals her car and heads for the Pacific, embarking on her version of the Great American Road Trip (like Jack Kerouac's 'On the road', but trans and better). Stopping in Nevada she meets James, a young man who works in the local Wal-Mart, and the pair quickly form an unlikely but powerful connection. Wholly original, funny and moving, Nevada has become a cult classic for good reason.

This year 'Oranges are not the only fruit' celebrates its 40th anniversary. An early example of auto-fiction, the coming-of-age novella follows Jeanette as she figures out her queerness amongst a ridiculously religious community (Jeanette's adopted; her mother believes she's the second coming of the Virgin Mary). Winterson handles religious trauma with tact, her dry wit and humour making for genuine laugh-out-loud moments (“Melanie,’ I plucked up courage to ask at last, ‘why do you have such a funny name?’ She blushed. ‘When I was born I looked like a melon.’ ‘Don’t worry,’ I reassured her, ‘you don’t any more.”).

Henry Henry is a modern reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transported to 2014. It follows a trio of Henrys, 'Hal' at the centre as he tries to navigate postgrad life: drinking, dating, and trying not to be late to the internships his father (another Henry) has set up for him. Hal is a Duke, and must grapple with his sexuality amongst his family's repression and deep-rooted Catholicism. Bretton's debut offers a fascinating peek into the workings of the upper classes, all the while playful and delightfully of the time (Hal communicates mainly via Snapchat and sniffs drugs off his Waitrose loyalty card).

'Some strange music draws me in' is an epic chronicle of trans strength and struggle, at it's heart celebrating the power of music. It's also a novel of two halves, flitting between Mel in 1984 and Max in 2019. Max (formerly Mel) reflects on his childhood in his small conservative hometown, intertwining stories of the past with his present. The novel's cast of characters is wide and brilliant, namely Sylvia, a trans woman who introduced Max to the power of Patti Smith.

The safekeep recently took the title of the Women's Prize for fiction 2025, and deservedly so. It's an exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961. The story novel fizzes with the nervous energy of first queer love, with rich sensuous prose and brilliant plotting. The legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past also hang over the story, van der Wouden handling all these themes with great care.

Don't call us dead: poems is a collection by one of the best poetical voices of our generation, Danez Smith. These poems grapple with the intersection of queerness and blackness, responding especially to Smith's diagnosis with HIV. Moving and urgent, this collection is a necessary read: "in the catalogue of ways to kill a black boy, find me/buried between the pages stuck together/with red stick. ironic, predictable. look at me." (from the poem 'it won't be a bullet').

So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for many non-cisgender people, it’s gender euphoria which pushes forward their transition: the joy the first time a parent calls them by their new chosen name, the first time they have the confidence to cut their hair short, the first time they truly embrace themself. In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria.

An unforgettable and wholesome debut, Woodworking follows a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students. As their unlikely friendship evolves under the increasing scrutiny of their community, both women—and those closest to them—will come to realize that sometimes there is nothing more radical than letting the world see who you really are.

Tom Robinson looks back on the 1969 Stonewall riots, which were triggered by a police raid on a New York gay bar, and asks why they still have a powerful resonance for gay people.

A young black boy growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami tries to find his place in the world as he becomes a young man and experiences the beauty and pain of falling in love while also struggling with his own sexuality.

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene.

During the summer of 1984 in the United Kingdom, miners band together in order to go on strike in a political move with the National Union of Mineworkers, but when their movement is drawn out, homosexual activists join them in the fight.

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