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Dall'11 maggio 2016 le unioni civili sono legge. E se sul matrimonio è stato scritto molto e sulle donne altrettanto, sulle donne che hanno deciso di sposarsi fra loro si sa molto meno. A riempire con la sua intelligenza questo vuoto, arriva Chiara Sfregola che, a partire dalla sua esperienza di lesbica, di femminista e di moglie, racconta con un passo a metà tra saggistica e memoir cosa è stato storicamente e cosa sta diventando, oggi, il matrimonio.

In Rebent Sinner, Ivan Coyote takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling and revealing stories of what it means to be trans and non-binary today, at a time in their life when they must carry the burden of heartbreaking history with them, while combatting those who would misgender them or deny their very existence. These stories span thirty years of tackling TERFs, legislators, and bathroom police, sure, but there is joy and pleasure and triumph to be found here, too.

The body that Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits is a nonbinary body, a trans body, a body in two races—and a body continually in discovery. Theirs is also a body on sojourn invested in experience, body understanding, and engagement in and for human thriving. Henderson-Espinoza relates coming into a new body story, beginning with the deep emotional work of connecting the abstract intelligence of their mind with their body's intelligence, to explore the relationship between living and becoming, doing and listening.

"Desideravo raccontare storie vere, a volte tragiche, spesso dure, altre ancora amare, qualcuna gioiosa, ma tutte assolutamente libere. Ci ho provato. Ho pedinato vite. Ho trascritto verbali, in modo onesto e partecipe e spero anche godibile." Non basta una parrucca è un viaggio nel mondo del transgenderismo raccontato direttamente dalle interessate: settanta donne "trans" scelte tra circa quattrocento interviste raccolte in più di tre anni di lavoro.

Peggy Caserta, founder of the famous Haight-Ashbury hippie boutique Mnasidika and lover and girlfriend of Janis Joplin, was a Louisiana homecoming queen turned airsick stewardess who eventually landed in 1960s San Francisco and set up shop. Her store was a hang-out for The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company; it was where Wes Wilson’s posters hung, where Bill Graham sold concert tickets, and where Owsley’s LSD was enjoyed.

My Gay Church Days is the true story of a profoundly insecure evangelical pastor who eventually decided enough was enough. After failed relationships, crippling anxiety, and cult-like codependency, George broke away from rigid Christianity to pursue the thing he once found most dreadful and fearful about himself. This book is a crusade of revealing, an exploration of conformity, oppression, awakening, and self-discovery unlike any other.

Memorias LGTBI Negras. Esta es la historia de George Matthew Johnson. Una historia para todes nosotros. En estas rompedoras memorias para jóvenes adultes, George M. Johnson, destacade escritore y activista LGTBQIAP+ comparte recuerdos desgarradores a la par que gloriosos sobre lo que supone crecer como persona Negra y queer en Estados Unidos.

In the first edition of Bloodroot, Warland traced how a mother’s shared gender with her daughter can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother’s final year, Warland quietly discovered how to disentangle a crucial, concealed story that had rendered their relationship disconnected and fraught. The 2000 edition broke new ground in memoir form and uncharted storytelling. The 2020 edition includes a new essay by Warland that explores subsequent questions, insights, and tenderness only the passage of time can enable.

"Du kennst es: Du wachst morgens auf und bist schwul!" Sind schwule Jungs eigentlich richtige Jungs? Und wie sagt man seinem Umfeld, dass man nicht auf Mädchen steht? Als 15-Jähriger hat sich Tommy Toalingling diese Fragen auch gestellt. Heute gibt er auf seinem YouTube-Kanal mehr als 100 000 Follower*innen auf humorvolle Weise Tipps zum Thema Homosexualität. Tommy ist überzeugt, dass ein Coming-out früher oder später keine Rolle mehr spielt, vielmehr geht es um ein Ankommen bei sich selbst.

An award-winning biography of one of the first undercover journalists - a pioneering Swedish woman who lived a fascinating life of adventure and forbidden love and who changed journalism forever.

Wie gehe ich mit Diversität im Alltag um? 2007 spricht ein junger Mann vor einem Millionenpublikum die Worte: "Ich bin Balian!" und kündigt seine bevorstehende Transition an. Balian Buschbaum wird zum Vorbild für viele Menschen auf dem Weg zu ihrer wahren Identität. Inzwischen ist das Thema Diversität mitten in der Gesellschaft angekommen, wird leidenschaftlich diskutiert, führt aber auch zu Unsicherheiten und Unverständnis. Balian Buschbaum klärt auf und beantwortet offen und verständlich Fragen zu den unterschiedlichen Diversity-Dimensionen, zu geschlechtlicher Identität und Selbstverständnis.

Memorias LGTBI Negras. Esta es la historia de George Matthew Johnson. Una historia para todes nosotres. En estas rompedoras memorias para jóvenes adultes, George M. Johnson, destacade escritore y activista LGTBQIAP+ comparte recuerdos desgarradores a la par que gloriosos sobre lo que supone crecer como persona Negra y queer en Estados Unidos.

Tim and Rod grew up a few suburbs from each other in Newcastle, New South Wales. They were gay, but their worlds were not. Before they found each other, they were alone and miserable, marooned in a sea of impossible expectations. Rod was shackled by a conservative Christian upbringing, while Tim felt unmanly and inferior beside his macho, sport-obsessed older brothers. After enduring their own private versions of hell, Tim and Rod crossed paths on a dating app. They swiped for Mr Right, and suddenly everything clicked.

What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, 30 authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.

In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, street life, and substance abuse. "A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives, bodhisattvas...

Mark Scarbrough has been searching for something his entire life. Whether it’s his birth mother, true love, his purpose, or his sexual identity, Mark has been on a constant quest to find out who he really is, with the great Western texts as his steadfast companions. As a boy with his head constantly in a book, desperate to discover new worlds, he can hardly distinguish between their plots and his own reality.

In this clear and absorbing memoir, John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It is story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period studying at Aberystwyth, to a scholarship at Berkley in California as the AIDS epidemic began to take hold before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to work in community engagement and sexual health. A journey of becoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences with award-winning books and the desire to become a campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales.

Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity - and, ultimately, his sexual orientation - in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be.

In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: Massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-related complex. A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed meeting of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power - ACT UP - in the West Village. It would prove to be the best decision he ever made.

A funny, daring, bawdy and incredibly honest memoir from the anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sex advocate and erotic provocateur. Over the course of his 35-year career in show business, David Pevsner has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and on...