This category is devoted to stories of resilience, healing, and transformation within queer lives and communities. These books—ranging from personal memoirs to professional guides—explore the complexities of substance use, recovery, trauma, and mental health through an LGBTQ+ lens.
Here, readers will find powerful accounts of overcoming addiction, reclaiming self-worth, and building supportive networks grounded in honesty and compassion. Whether told with unflinching realism or deep empathy, each title reminds us that recovery is not a straight line—it’s a journey toward reconnection, self-acceptance, and pride in one’s own survival.
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A fierce and deeply honest essay collection exploring addiction, mental health, sexuality, feminism, motherhood, and identity. Crystal Jeans’ Blueprints combines raw personal reflection with sharp cultural insight in a powerful examination of survival and selfhood.
A National Book Award–nominated memoir of food, addiction, queerness, and self-discovery, Burn the Place traces Iliana Regan’s journey from foraging on a Midwestern farm to Michelin-starred success.
Ben Appel’s Cis White Gay is a bold memoir of survival, self-discovery, and dissent—from escaping a Christian cult to confronting new forms of ideological dogma in modern queer activism. A sharp and unflinching look at faith, identity, and freedom.
A fearless queer memoir about family, secrecy, faith, and double lives. Hiding Out by Tina Alexis Allen is a gripping story of self-discovery and the power of truth to set us free.
A raw, darkly funny memoir about family, sexuality, addiction, recovery, and learning to understand the person behind the public persona. Chris Olsen revisits the experiences that shaped him and the difficult, messy process of becoming the author of his own life.
A compassionate paperback companion to Lust, Men and Meth, this study guide offers practical exercises, discussion prompts, and recovery tools for understanding and healing from chemsex and methamphetamine use.
A foundational guide to understanding and recovering from methamphetamine use among gay men, blending addiction science, sex therapy, and practical tools for healing and healthy intimacy.
A raw, funny, and fiercely queer memoir about nine pivotal experiences of childhood trauma, family dysfunction, identity, and the hard-won resilience that emerges from them.
A lyrical, deeply personal essay on queer heartbreak, memory, and survival—exploring how we carry love even after it’s gone.
