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LGBTQ+ Open Resources

A Guide to Openly Accessible Resources

Digital Books: Individual eBook Titles

Open Access eBook Collections

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)  -  (search “Queer Studies”)
A discovery service for open-access e-books and e-book publishers that indexes and provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed e-books.

Big Ten Open Books
Collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and the first collection is on the subject of gender and sexuality studies.

Internet Archive Open Library
Includes over a thousand LGBTQ+ titles, including everything from young adult and historical fiction to anthologies, classic pulp, and academic texts. Please note that many books may be borrowed with a free account.

Reading Lists

American Library Association (ALA) Rainbow Round Table (RTT) Bibliographies & Reading ListsRainbow Roundtable site logo provides various bibliographies and reading lists on topics related to LGBTQ+ issues. 

LAMBDA Literary Review
For over 30 years, Lambda Literary has championed LGBTQ books and authors. Lambda believes that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer literature is fundamental to the preservation of our culture and that LGBTQ lives are affirmed when our stories are written, published, and read.

Publishers

Android Press 
With a mission of uplifting author and creator voices from marginalized communities and the Global South, Android Press publishes science fiction, fantasy, and light horror specializing in climate fiction and the various -punk subgenres. We love stories that are rooted in hope and optimism, as well as stories that hold up a mirror to our society, forcing us to reexamine our past and our values in order to move forward and build a better future.

Arsenal Pulp Press 
Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada, with over 400 titles currently in print, which include literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; books on social issues; gender studies; LGBTQ2S+ and BIPOC  literature; graphic novels and nonfiction; children's and young adult literature; regional history; cookbooks; alternative crafts; and books in translation. We are interested in literature that engages and challenges readers and asks probing questions about the world around us.

BLF Press
Founded in 2014, it amplifies queer BIPOC women. BLF’s publications include the 2016 Black lesbian fiction collection Lez Talk, which Allen coedited with Lauren Cherelle. 

Bold Strokes Books 
Bold Strokes Books is a midsized independent publisher headquartered in Cambridge, New York, that offers a diverse collection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer general and genre fiction.

Book Moon: Queer Books by Black Authors
Book Moon is an indie book store in western Massachusetts run by the husband-and-wife team of Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant.

Catapult 
"Our books embrace writers and audiences who fearlessly shake up our assumptions and biases and believe in storytelling's power. We work with a diverse list of writers who have been historically underrepresented, broadening the literary landscape in the United States and beyond. We honor the craft of writing and are committed to publishing with care, intention, and respect for our authors. We embrace writing that requires both writer and reader to reach beyond our assumptions and biases to see the humanity, struggle, and truth in every human being."

The Feminist Press
Founded in 1970, The Feminist Press began as a crucial publishing component of second-wave feminism, reprinting feminist classics by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. By publishing feminist literature worldwide, they have become the vanguard for books on contemporary feminist issues of equality and gender identity.

Kensington Publishing Corp. 
An independent, family-owned book publisher founded in 1974 and based in New York City with a longtime LGBTQ commitment. Known for the diversity of the authors and books it publishes, Kensington releases more than 300 fiction and nonfiction titles each year, providing readers with a range of popular genres such as thrillers, romance, historical fiction, cozy mysteries, and nonfiction, as well as true-crime, western, sci-fi, and speculative fiction titles. 

Little Puss Press
LittlePuss Press is a feminist press run by two trans women, Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett. We believe in printing on paper, intensive editing, and throwing lots of parties.

Queen of Swords
Queen of Swords is an independent small press based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It specializes in swashbuckling tales with female protagonists, people from wide-ranging cultural and racial backgrounds having adventures in outer space, LGBT and/or Q characters engaged in magic and swordplay, and historically flavored stories that reflect diverse casts of characters doing interesting things.

Red Hen Press 
"In 1994, Dr. Kate Gale and Mark E. Cull co-founded the press from their San Fernando Valley home, selling nearly all they owned to begin publishing talented writers whose works had been overlooked by large-scale publishers. Red Hen Press has since transformed into a thriving organization that supports the Greater Los Angeles Area and international communities with arts-based events and literary advocacy. Red Hen publishes approximately twenty-five books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction each year, with over 550 books released to date and distributed internationally. The press also publishes ten imprints highlighting underrepresented authors from diverse locations and backgrounds."

SourceBooks 
SourceBooks publishes queer voices across all its imprints, which include Bloom Books, Poisoned Pen Press, and Sourcebooks Casablanca. Senior editor Mary Altman strives to bring LGBTQ authors and stories on board.

Stelliform Press 
"Stelliform Press is a small independent literary press that publishes novellas, novels, short story collections, and works of creative non-fiction that address our world’s most pressing problems: climate change, ecological destruction, and the effect of these issues on how we relate to each other and to the other beings that live with us in the world. We see these problems as systemic and pervasive, exacerbating long-standing social issues. Our stories challenge us to confront the roots of injustice, which prevent us from achieving a better world for all. Stelliform Press stories address environmental issues from many different perspectives and are, foremost, emotional and relational or interconnected narratives that can help us to find the strength and inspiration we need to confront the uncertain future."

Surely Books
Abrams Books' new line of graphic novels, curated by the bestselling Eisner Award-winning author Mariko Tamaki, is dedicated to expanding the presence of LGBTQIA creators and content in the comics world.

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