 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $9.98 who ever thought rock opera could be lifechanging? ...or even worth watching? fiction.
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 | Boys Don't Cry
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $5.96 not an uplifting, feel-good movie. important for that reason. watch it. based on nonfiction (within driving distance of my hometown...!)
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 | Back to Basics: A Butch/Femme Anthology
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $7.42 this is a GOOD anthology of lesbian erotica, and by "good," i mean that it's sexually appealing, not that it's sophisticated literature, which seems to be the (usually vain) goal of other anthologies.
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 | Body Check: Erotic Lesbian Sports Stories
Buy used from: $9.00 see above. both fiction, obv.
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 | Better Than Chocolate
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.74 cute lesbian chick-flick--naturally, all conflict revolves around being gay/societal issues, but nthg else terribly deep. just fun. fiction.
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 | But I'm a Cheerleader
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $7.89 see above. even lighter comedy than above (...keep in mind that light comedy is a relative term). fiction.
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 | Tipping the Velvet: A Novel by Sarah Waters
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.00 okay, no, victorian england WASN'T teeming with out lesbians. so what? still a great read. not erotica, but still sexy. fiction.
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 | Deliver Us from Evie by M. E. Kerr
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 teenage book. read it when i was ten or so, asked Ps what "dyke" meant, was told they didn't know. ha. reread this year. made more sense this time around. fiction.
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 | Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Buy used from: $0.49 see above. i like this one a LOT, even if it is written for fourteen-year-olds. would have done me a lot of good when i was fourteen. fiction.
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 | Like Bread on the Seder Plate by Rebecca Alpert
Buy new: $75.50 / Used from: $3.93 excellent, well-thought-out book on the problem of resolving judaism and homosexuality. written from a lesbian perspective. nonfiction.
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 | Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance by Janet R. Jakobsen
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $1.34 very interesting book; slightly outdated now that sodomy laws are off the books, but basic premises and gay marriage stuff are certainly well worth reading. nonfiction.
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 | Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth by Wayne R. Besen
Buy new: $29.16 / Used from: $3.34 hahahahaha. yeah; i knew the ex-gay groups were full of it, but now i REALLY know they're full of it. nonfiction.
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 | Trembling Before G-D
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $19.95 great for the gay members (...or ex-members) of any right-wing religion. and their families!
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 | Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America (Plume Books) by Mel White
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.89 ever been a queer conservative christian? read this just for the empathy factor. could have used a better editor, but I do tend to obsess. my parents were nicer to me after I made them read this.
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 | Beautiful Boxer
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $11.64 MtF Thai boxer; based on a true story. I want to learn muay thai; my brother just wants to borrow Toom's dress.
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 | Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.94 so, so, so, so, so good. if you only read one queer book, ever, let it be this one.
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 | Bound
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $4.00 sexiest lesbian movie I've ever watched. great for HOURS of closeted fun at your conservative christian college of choice. I love Gina Gershon.
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