Travelling to Tomorrow: The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance With America by Yves Rees
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk. A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing s ...Show more
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important. A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces. For as long as queer women have existed, they've created gath ...Show more
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . . Shakespeare's work was profoundly influenced by the queer culture of his time - much of it totally integrated into mainstream society. From a relentless schooling in Latin and Greek homoeroticism, to a less form ...Show more
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share great triumphs and deep despairs; to praise the virtues of their lover, extol their loneliness and pro ...Show more
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his passion for other men, even as he daydreams about the sun-warmed bodies of ancient Greece. Under the dazzling lights of interwar Paris, Josephine Baker dances her way to fame and fortune and discovers s ...Show more
A Brief History of Feminism by Patu, Antje Schrupp
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others. The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but the ...Show more
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon's Australia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
In a life that spanned more than a century - 1882 to 1989 - Monte Punshon witnessed crucial events in Australia's history. She was a pioneer radio broadcaster, travelled the country with children's theatrical troupes and defied convention with her active involvement in the underground world of queer Mel ...Show more
Critical Care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis by Geraldine Fela
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
Critical Care paints a vivid and nuanced picture of HIV and AIDS nursing and sheds light on an unexamined aspect of Australia’s AIDS crisis. HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses were caregivers and activists, bot ...Show more
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
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Category: Fiction
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts co ...Show more
Figuring by Maria Popova
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries -- beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist a ...Show more
Wed by the Wayside: A True Story of Love, Family and Community by Alana Valentine
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
The fascinating true story of Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney a quiet revolution in Australian history, from a side street of the red-light district. Alana Valentine's mother, Janice, was married by the charismatic and controversial Methodist minister Ted Noffs at the Wayside Chapel in 1969. Not l ...Show more
The Little Book of Pride Heroes: Icons of the LGBTQIA+ community by Jared Richards
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Category: Non-Fiction & Guides
A celebration of queer trailblazers! This book is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, comedians, writers, musicians, and pop-culture giants who have shaped our worlds, expanded our horizons, and radically increased queer visibility. Featuring trailblazing queer icons such as James Baldwin, Geo ...Show more