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This 1822 scandal pamphlet exposes the arrest of the Bishop of Clogher after he was discovered with a common soldier at the White Lion public house in London. Furious, sensational, and openly queer, it attacks hypocrisy in the church and press while preserving a rare early account of a public same-sex scandal.
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A controversial eighteenth-century medical treatise by physician Samuel-Auguste Tissot examining the supposed health effects of masturbation and sexual excess. Once highly influential, the book now stands as a revealing historical document about medicine, morality, and sexuality in the Enlightenment era.
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The true story of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, who fled 18th-century Ireland to live together for life — a timeless tale of devotion, courage, and queer companionship.
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Oscar Wilde’s sparkling Victorian comedy about politics, blackmail, and the fragile nature of reputation. When a respected politician’s hidden past threatens to destroy his career, wit, romance, and clever intrigue collide in one of Wilde’s most beloved plays.
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A lush, erotic elegy from queer modernist Fernando Pessoa. Antinous mourns the beautiful youth whose death shattered Emperor Hadrian, blending myth, sensuality, and grief into a timeless exploration of queer love. Free eBook edition with a newly crafted cover.
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A witty 1915 collection of suffrage-era satire by Alice Duer Miller, using clever rhymes and humor to challenge the arguments used against women’s right to vote.
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A groundbreaking 1918 queer memoir and one of the earliest published autobiographies by a gender-nonconforming author. Autobiography of an Androgyne offers a rare firsthand account of queer identity, “fairie” culture, and underground LGBTQ+ life in turn-of-the-century America.
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A witty early queer novel about a charming young instructor whose close bond with his male friend quietly disrupts the expectations of a college town society determined to understand him.
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A queer Western where a weary sheriff and his ex-lover dig up more than stolen gold—they uncover the past, the truth, and each other.
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A lonely young woman forms an intense and unsettling bond with a mysterious female guest who arrives at her family’s remote castle. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla is the original gothic vampire tale—rich with atmosphere, suspense, and one of literature’s earliest queer vampire relationships.
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Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice is a classic modernist novella exploring beauty, obsession, and artistic discipline through the tragic unraveling of an aging writer in a decadent, cholera-stricken Venice. A foundational work of queer literature and psychological fiction, it remains as unsettling and luminous today as when it was first published.
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A classic illustrated collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches and studies, revealing the creative process and boundless curiosity of the Renaissance master.
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A fiery, one-issue Harlem Renaissance magazine that broke every rule. Featuring Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and bold art by Aaron Douglas, Fire!! remains a landmark of Black modernism, rebellion, and unapologetic expression.
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A gloriously filthy queer space comedy where three miners take on an evil beer baron to save interstellar pleasure—one jizz-ale at a time.
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A landmark feminist utopian novel, Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines a hidden, all-female society untouched by war, greed, or patriarchy. First published in 1915, this quietly radical classic blends adventure, satire, and social critique to question long-held assumptions about gender, power, and civilization.
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A landmark 1906 gay novel, Imre: A Memorandum tells the quietly powerful story of two men navigating love, identity, and truth in a society that offered no place for either.
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Oscar Wilde’s classic essays on art and aesthetics—bold, witty, and centuries ahead of their time. A cornerstone of queer literary criticism and a love letter to artifice over truth.
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Whitman’s revolutionary 1855 collection celebrates the sacredness of the body, democracy, and queer love in free-verse poems that redefined American literature.
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A rare 1895 collection of Fire Island ghost stories and coastal folklore, filled with shipwrecks, buried treasure, and eerie Long Island legends retold in vivid period prose.
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Tender Buttons (1914) by Gertrude Stein is a groundbreaking modernist classic that reimagines everyday objects through experimental language and poetic abstraction. A cornerstone of literary modernism and queer literary history, this free eBook edition is available in EPUB and PDF formats.
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A notorious Victorian erotic novel where religious devotion meets forbidden desire. The Convent School turns morality into mischief and education into ecstasy.
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A scandalous and witty queer classic from 1894, The Green Carnation follows the beautiful and decadent Lord Reggie as he parades through London society wearing the infamous “green carnation.” A satirical portrait of Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic circle, the novel remains a fascinating—and boldly queer—snapshot of fin-de-siècle culture.
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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the story of a beautiful young man whose portrait ages and decays while he remains untouched by time. A haunting parable of vanity, corruption, and self-destruction, it remains one of literature’s most daring examinations of beauty and morality.
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A controversial 1894 novella about forbidden love and social condemnation, The Priest and the Acolyte is a tragic and historically significant work from the Wilde-era cultural landscape.
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A classic work of decadent and queer literature, The Songs of Bilitis presents the lyrical, sensual poems of Bilitis, a fictional contemporary of Sappho. Filled with moonlit longing, pastoral beauty, and sapphic romance, this landmark collection remains one of the most influential LGBTQ+ literary works of the late 19th century.
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Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928) is a groundbreaking lesbian novel that defied censorship and ignited one of literature’s most notorious obscenity trials. Following the life of Stephen Gordon, it offers a poignant and unapologetic portrayal of identity, love, and courage in the face of intolerance.
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Swept to a magical land by a cyclone, Dorothy follows the Yellow Brick Road with a Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion on a quest for brains, heart, courage—and a way home. A joyful classic of imagination and friendship.
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