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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 Once highly influential, the book now stands as a revealing historical document about medicine, morality, and sexuality in the Enlightenment era.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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Oscar Wilde’s legendary prison letter, written during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol in 1897. De Profundis is a powerful meditation on suffering, love, art, disgrace, spirituality, and queer identity, revealing a deeply personal side of Wilde rarely seen in his more famous comedies and novels. A landmark work of LGBTQ+ literary history.
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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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Ann Bannon’s groundbreaking 1959 lesbian pulp novel follows Laura Landon, a young woman who escapes her domineering father in Chicago and starts over in New York City. There she finds a job, a new home, and a complicated new world of friendships, desire, and women who force her to confront the life she has been afraid to live.
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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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A dazzling and deeply experimental modernist work by Gertrude Stein exploring identity, love, gender, and human relationships through hypnotic, looping prose. Featuring A Long Gay Book 1909-1912, Many Many Women, and G.M.P., this collection captures the revolutionary artistic world shared by Matisse, Picasso, and Stein in pre-war Paris.
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A biography of Michael Field, the literary pseudonym of poets Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, exploring their remarkable lives, artistic partnership, poetry, and dramatic works. Mary Sturgeon’s 1922 study offers an intimate portrait of two women who devoted their lives to literature while deliberately creating together under a single name.
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The groundbreaking 1952 lesbian pulp novel that launched an entire genre. At a Midwestern university, freshman Susan “Mitch” Mitchell becomes intensely drawn to her charismatic sorority sister Leda Taylor, forcing both women into a collision between desire, conformity, and the rigid expectations of 1950s America.
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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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Ann Bannon’s provocative 1960 novel about love, identity, marriage, and the secrets that can shatter a seemingly conventional life. When Page and Sunny Pringle discover a devastating secret about their family history, their marriage is thrown into crisis, while lesbian Laura Mann and her husband Jack offer a very different vision of what love and marriage can become.
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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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An extraordinarily candid 1930 autobiography of a woman who lived, loved, and challenged social conventions decades before the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Published under the pseudonym Mary Casal, The Stone Wall recounts Ruth Fuller Field’s childhood, marriages, relationships with women, and lifelong struggle to understand and live openly according to her own nature.
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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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Hollywood gossip meets memoir in Hedda Hopper’s candid, combative account of the movie business and the stars who made it famous. From Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe to Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and the Hollywood establishment itself, Hopper offers an insider’s view of celebrity, scandal, ambition, and life under the studio spotlight.
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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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D. H. Lawrence’s provocative modernist novel follows sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen and their relationships with Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich. A searching exploration of love, sexuality, independence, gender, and the complicated bonds between individuals.
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Ann Bannon’s gripping second novel of lesbian life in 1950s New York, where Laura, trapped in a turbulent relationship with the formidable Beebo, struggles between fear, desire, and the possibility of a life beyond the shadows. Greenwich Village, complicated friendships, jealousy, and forbidden attraction collide in one of the landmark novels of lesbian pulp fiction.
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