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This is a list of all texts currently in the Gender Community Lending Library collection. Click on a title for more information.
You can navigate the catalogue by specific topic or genre by using the tag cloud at the bottom of every page.
We have a list of free books available from other sources.
Non-Fiction
Title | Author | Restrictions* | Status |
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Queer Intentions | Amelia Abraham | None | Available |
We Can do Better Than This | Edited by Amelia Abraham | None | Available |
Queer City | Peter Ackroyd | 16+ | Available |
The Life & Times of Butch Dykes | Eloisa Aquino | None | Available |
Three Queer Lives | Paul Bailey | None | Available |
Non-Binary Lives | Edited by Meg-John Barker, Kat Gupta, Jos Twist, Ben Vincent | None | Available |
Hell Yeah, Self Care! | Meg-John Barker, Alex Iantaffi | None | On Loan |
How to Transform Your School into an LGBT+ Friendly Place | Ellie Barnes, Anna Carlile | None | Available |
Transgender People and Education | Clare Bartholomaeus, Damien Riggs | None | Available |
Reasons to Live | Rikki Beadle-Blair | None | Available |
What I Learned Today | Rikki Beadle-Blair | None | Available |
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies Vol. 1 | Edited by Genny Beemyn and Abbie E. Goldberg | None | Available |
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies Vol. 2 | Edited by Genny Beemyn and Abbie E. Goldberg | None | Available |
Transgender Cinema | Rebecca Bell-Metereau | None | Available |
Trans Mission | Alex Bertie | None | Available |
Memoirs of a Man’s Maiden Years | N. O. Body | None | Available |
decolonizing trans/gender 101 | b. binaohan | None | Available |
Queer Kinship and Family Changes in Taiwan | Amy Brainer | 16+ | Available |
Trans Britain | Edited by Christine Burns | None | Available |
Welcome to Fairyland | Julio Capó Jr. | None | Available |
After Eunuchs | Howard Chiang | 16+ | Available |
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific | Howard Chiang | 16+ | Available |
Gears for Queers | Lilith Cooper, Abigail Melton | None | Available |
To My Trans Sisters | Edited by Charlie Craggs | None | Available |
Supporting Trans People of Colour | Sabah Choudrey | None | Available |
Man-Made Woman | Ciara Cremin | 16+ | Available |
Gender Euphoria | Edited by Laura Kate Dale | None | Available |
Heterosexual Histories | Edited by Rebecca L. Davis, Michele Mitchell | 16+ | Available |
What’s the T? | Juno Dawson | None | On loan |
The Red in the Rainbow | Hannah Dee | 16+ | Available |
Prejudice and Pride | Cliodhna Devlin | None | Available |
The Shape of Sex | Leah DeVun | 16+ | Available |
Sapphic Slashers | Lisa Duggan | 16+ | Available |
Intimate Investments In Drag King Cultures | Kerryn Drysdale | 16+ | Available |
TERF Wars | Edited by Sonja Erikainen, Ruth Pearce, Ben Vincent | None | Available |
The Transgender Issue | Shon Faye | None | Available |
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge | Michel Foucault (Translated by Robert Hurley) | 16+ | Available |
Forget Burial | Marty Fink | 16+ | Available |
She’s Not There | Jennifer Finney Boylan | None | Available |
Blind to Sameness | Asia Friedman | None | Available |
Histories of the Transgender Child | Jules Gill-Peterson | None | Available |
Transphobic Hate Crime | Joanna Jamel | None | Available |
Transgender Marxism | Edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke | None | Available |
Representing Queer and Transgender Identity | Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins | 16+ | Available |
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation | Craig Griffiths | None | Available |
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography | Edited by Blake Gutt and Alicia Spencer-Hall | None | Available |
Queer Lovers and Hateful Others | Jin Haritaworn | 16+ | Available |
Sporting Gender | Joanna Harper | None | Available |
The New Woman | Emma Heaney | 16+ | Available |
Berlin’s Third Sex | Magnus Hirschfeld (Translated by James J. Conway) | None | Available |
Gender Trauma | Alex Iantaffi | None | Available |
Testosterone | Rebecca Jordan-Young, Katrina Karkazis | 16+ | Available |
Trans | Juliet Jacques | None | Available |
Letters For My Brothers | Edited by Zander Keig and Megan M. Rohrer | None | Available |
Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-Binary Person | Jennie Kermode | None | Available |
Ishtyle | Kareem Khubchandani | None | Available |
Original Plumbing | Edited by Rocco Kayiatos, Amos Mac | 18+ | On loan |
Trans Like Me | CN Lester | None | On loan |
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister (Edited by Helena Whitbread) | 16+ | Available |
The Narrative of Lucy Ann Lobdell | Joseph Lobdell (Edited by Lisa Macchia Ohliger) | None | Available |
Extra Bold | Ellen Lupton | None | Available |
Female Husbands | Jen Manion | None | Available |
America Through Transgender Eyes | Lain A.B. Mathers, J.E. Sumerau | None | Available |
Fanny & Stella | Neil McKenna | None | Available |
How to be a Girl | Marlo Mack | None | Available |
Before Trans | Rachel Mesch | 16+ | Available |
Towards a Gay Communism | Mario Mieli (Translated by David Fernbach and Evan Calder Williams) | 16+ | Available |
Transgender Resistance | Laura Miles | None | Available |
Camp TV | Quinn Miller | None | Available |
Redefining Realness | Janet Mock | None | Available |
Gender Politics | Surya Monro | 16+ | Available |
nîtisânak | Jas M. Morgan | 16+ | Available |
Conundrum | Jan Morris | None | Available |
Marginalia | Juno Morrow | None | Available |
50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology | Edited by Ann V. Murphy, Gayle Salamon and Gail Weiss | None | Available |
The Book of Non-binary Joy | Ben Pechey | None | Available |
After Queer Theory | James Penney | 16+ | Available |
Queering Families | Carla Pfeffer | 16+ | Available |
Symposium | Plato (Translated by Robin Waterfield) | None | Available |
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes | Zoë Playden | None | Available |
Can the Monster Speak? | Paul B. Preciado (Translated by Frank Wynne) | None | Available |
Working with Transgender Young People and their Families | Damien Riggs | None | Available |
Queer Sex | Juno Roche | 18+ | Available |
Conditionally Accepted | Baker Rogers | None | Available |
Trans Men in the South | Baker Rogers | 16+ | Available |
Jane Crow | Rosalind Rosenberg | None | Available |
Evolution’s Rainbow | Joan Roughgarden | None | Available |
The Life and Death of Latisha King | Gayle Salamon | 16+ | Available |
Assuming a Body | Gayle Salamon | None | On Loan |
Whipping Girl | Julia Serano | None | Available |
A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records | Norena Shopland | None | Available |
You’ve Changed | Edited by Laurie Shrage | None | Available |
Trans Medicine | stef m. shuster | None | Available |
True Sex | Emily Skidmore | None | Available |
Captive Genders | Edited by Nat Smith and Eric A. Stanley | 16+ | Available |
Black on Both Sides | C. Riley Snorton | None | Available |
Spectrums | Edited by Maxfield Sparrow | None | On loan |
Transgender History | Susan Stryker | None | Available |
The Transgender Studies Reader | Edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle | 16+ | Available |
We Both Laughed in Pleasure | Lou Sullivan (Edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma) | 16+ | Available |
Ezili’s Mirrors | Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley | None | Available |
The Trans Generation | Travers | None | Available |
Beyond the Gender Binary | Alok Vaid-Menon | None | Available |
Transgender Health | Ben Vincent | None | Available |
Chemically-Enhanced Butch | Ty Bo Yule | 16+ | Available |
Fiction
Title | Author | Restrictions | Status |
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Metabolize, If Able | Clay AD | 16+ | Available |
A Natural History of Transition | Callum Angus | 16+ | Available |
If We Shadows | D.E. Atwood | None | Available |
Seraphita | Honoré de Balzac (translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley) | None | Available |
Nightwood | Djuna Barnes | 16+ | Available |
Maiden, Mother, Crone | Edited by Gwen Benaway | None | Available |
Changers Book 1: Drew | T Cooper, Allison Glock-Cooper | None | Available |
The Slow Fix | Ivan E. Coyote | None | Available |
Wonderland | Juno Dawson | None | Available |
Freshwater | Akwaeke Emezi | 16+ | Available |
Pet | Akwaeke Emezi | None | Available |
Darryl | Jackie Ess | 18+ | Available |
Maurice | E.M. Forster | None | Available |
Deep Wheel Orcadia | Harry Josephine Giles | None | Available |
F4 | Larissa Glasser | 18+ | Available |
Colour Scheme | John R Gordon | 16+ | Available |
The Well of Loneliness | Radclyffe Hall | None | Available |
On Hell | Johanna Hedva | 16+ | Available |
Psycho Nymph Exile | Porpentine | 18+ | Available |
Variations | Juliet Jacques | None | Available |
The Thirty Names of Night | Zeyn Joukhadar | 16+ | Available |
Tiny Pieces of Skull | Roz Kaveney | 16+ | Available |
My Crunchy Life | Mia Kerick | None | Available |
Future Feeling | Joss Lake | 18+ | Available |
I’ve Got a Time Bomb | Sybil Lamb | 18+ | Available |
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl | Andrea Lawlor | 16+ | Available |
The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 16+ | Available |
Roving Pack | Sassafras Lowry | 16+ | Available |
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | None | Available |
An Accident of Stars | Foz Meadows | None | Available |
A Tyranny of Queens | Foz Meadows | None | Available |
Under the Pendulum Sun | Jeannette Ng | 16+ | Available |
Las Biuty Queens | Iván Monaliso Ojeda (translated by Hannah Kauders) | 16+ | Available |
Fairytales for Lost Children | Diriye Osman | None | Available |
Documenting Light | EE Ottoman | None | Available |
Vicky Romeo Plus Joolz | Ely Percy | None | Available |
Detransition, Baby | Torrey Peters | 16+ | On Loan |
Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones | Torrey Peters | 16+ | Available |
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) | Hazel Jane Plante | 16+ | Available |
Little Fish | Casey Plett | 16+ | Available |
The Seep | Chana Porter | 16+ | Available |
Monsieur Vénus | Rachilde (translated by Melanie Hawthorne) | 16+ | Available |
City of Night | John Rechy | 18+ | Available |
LOTE | Shola von Reinhold | None | Available |
Lullaby of Birdland | Emma Renault | 18+ | Available |
Confessions of the Fox | Jordy Rosenberg | 16+ | Available |
Tell Me I’m Worthless | Alison Rumfitt | 16+ | Available |
If I Was Your Girl | Meredith Russo | None | Available |
7 Minutes | Paul Van Der Spiegel | 16+ | Available |
Trans Deus | Paul Van Der Spiegel | 16+ | Available |
Virus | Linda Stupart | 16+ | Available |
Transcendent 4 | Bogi Takács | None | Available |
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars | Kai Cheng Thom | 16+ | Available |
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong | 16+ | Available |
Gaudy Bauble | Isabel Waidner | None | Available |
We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff | Isabel Waidner | None | Available |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | None | Available |
Small Beauty | Jia Qing Wilson-Yang | None | On Loan |
Orlando | Virginia Woolf | None | Available |
Poetry
For chapbooks, see here.
Title | Author | Restrictions | Status |
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We Want It All | Edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel | None | Available |
The Black Flamingo | Dean Atta | None | Available |
For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin | John Barton | None | Available |
luxury, blue lace | S. Brook Corfman | None | Available |
My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites | S. Brook Corfman | None | Available |
Belated Bris of the Brainsick | Lucas Crawford | None | Available |
Clouds Cannot Cover Us | Jay Hulme | None | Available |
Charred | Andreena Leeanne | 16+ | Available |
ZOM-FAM | Kama La Mackerel | 16+ | Available |
Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 | Trish Salah | 16+ | Available |
it was never going to be okay | jaye simpson | None | Available |
Comics
Title | Author | Restrictions | Status |
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Come Together | Edited by Alex Assan, Tab Kimpton | 18+ | Available |
Kisses For Jet | Joris Bas Backer | None | Available |
The Pervert | Remy Boydell and Michelle Perez | 18+ | Available |
Love is Love | Edited by Sarah Gaydos, Jamie S. Rich | 16+ | Available |
Orange Plates | Eve Greenwood | None | Available |
Ambrosia | Edited by Tab Kimpton, Jade Sarson | 18+ | Available |
Minority Monsters | Tab Kimpton | None | Available |
Shades of A | Tab Kimpton | 18+ | Available |
Sir, Butler & Boy | Tab Kimpton | 18+ | Available |
Gender Queer | Maia Kobabe | None | Available |
Incomplete, Volume 1 | Chloe McGenn | None | Available |
Incomplete, Volume 2 | Chloe McGenn | None | Available |
Incomplete, Volume 3 | Chloe McGenn | None | Available |
a + e 4ever | i. merey | 16+ | Available |
The Nightingale and the Rose | Jem Milton | None | Available |
Nimona | N. E. Stevenson | None | Available |
Wolvendaughter | Ver | None | Available |
The Beechwood Helm | Letty Wilson | None | Available |
Anthology
Anthologies featuring works in multiple genres.
Title | Author | Restrictions | Status |
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Sista! | Edited by Rikki Beadle-Blair, John R Gordon and Phyll Opoku-Gyimah | None | Available |
The Literature of Lesbianism | Edited by Terry Castle | None | Available |
Creating in Crisis | Edited by Peter Collins | None | Available |
F, M or Other | Edited by Nathaniel Kunitsky, Rhiannon Tate | 16+ | Available |
Queer | Edited by Frank Wynne | None | Available |
Chapbooks, Plays, Zines, Etc.
You may request up to three of these items at once, or one in addition to a book.
Title | Author | Type | Restrictions | Status |
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Love, Pan-fried | Gray Crosbie | Flash Fiction Collection | 16+ | Available |
Burgerz | Travis Alabanza | Play | 16+ | Available |
Overflow | Travis Alabanza | Play | 16+ | Available |
Kiki with the Family | Raezor Beam | Zine | None | Available |
There Is No Word For It | Laura Bridgeman and Serge Nicholson | Play | 16+ | Available |
Poppies | Noel Greig | Play | 16+ | Available |
Sew Keighley Pride | Edited by ICLS, Keighley Pride, Bradford District Council | Zine | None | Available |
Queering the Map of Glasgow | Edited by Nathaniel Kunitski | Magazine | None | Available |
National Geographic: Gender Revolution | National Geographic | Magazine | None | Available |
Queer Zine Library Year 1 | Queer Zine Library | Zine | None | Available |
How to Do Your T Shot | saint.ass | Zine | None | Available |
Fourteen Poems: Issue 1 | Ben Townley-Canning | Chapbook | None | Available |
Fourteen Poems: Issue 2 | Ben Townley-Canning | Chapbook | None | Available |
Fourteen Poems: Issue 3 | Ben Townley-Canning | Chapbook | None | Available |
Fourteen Poems: Issue 4 | Ben Townley-Canning | Chapbook | None | Available |
Fourteen Poems: Issue 5 | Ben Townley-Canning | Chapbook | None | Available |
Fourteen Poems: Issue 6 | Ben Townley-Canning | Chapbook | None | Available |
Fourteen Poems: Issue 7 | Ben Townley-Canning | Chapbook | None | Available |
Femme in Public | Alok Vaid-Menon | Chapbook | 16+ | Available |
Archiving Joy | Lu Williams | Zine | 16+ | Available |
Stacks
GCLL is proud to present its budding collection of academic journals. We are particularly interested in donations of special journal issues.
Journal | Edition | Special Issue Title | Special Issue Editors | Publication Date | Status |
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Transgender Studies Quarterly | Volume 9.1 | The t4t Issue | Cameron Awkward-Rich and Hil Malatino | February 2022 | Available |
About GCLL’s Restricted Books
We restrict access to some of our books, typically by user age due to the presence of sexual content. We do this very carefully. The decisions are made case by case by GCLL administration.
We expect many of our users to be teenagers. This is because teenagers can find it harder to gain access to queer content, whether because they cannot travel to libraries alone, or because they live with parents who are not accepting of their gender or sexual orientation. We don’t believe it is reasonable to expect many – or any – younger children to find and use this website. Our decisions are made with this in mind.
While most teenagers with internet access have been exposed to far more explicit content than GCLL provides access to, there are laws around ‘obscene’ publications and whom they can be provided to. Similar projects to GCLL are often harassed by anti-transgender hate groups. Many of these groups have the funding and inclination to take us to court. We have to balance trying to provide the very best service that we can, with trying to remain online. For that reason, although we don’t believe that restricting access to books containing sexual content is helpful to teenagers, we do so. Our guidelines are as follows:
Sexual education books that are appropriate for teenagers will NEVER be restricted. It’s important to us that young people can find open, honest answers to questions about sex. This includes texts providing details around transgender medical treatments and surgeries. Even where minors are not currently provided with these treatments in the UK, it’s important that all people are allowed to consider transition, for as long as they need, with access to accurate information.
Likewise, we will never restrict access to novels written with a teenage audience in mind. These books can be found in the teen fiction section of libraries and bookshops across the country.
Novels with some sexual content and non-fiction that examines sexual experiences from an academic perspective, will typically be restricted to users aged 16+. For example, the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a widely acclaimed, semi-autobiographical story about a young Vietnamese-American gay man. It contains a sex scene, descriptions of violence, and discussion of drug use. But, we don’t regard it as inappropriate for 16-18 year olds, and neither do the schools that teach it in their English classes. The sex scene is brief and non-explicit, and neither violence or drug use are glorified. We are happy to lend this book to any users aged 16 or over.
Similarly, the non-fiction book Queering Families is classed in our collection as 16+. This is because it discusses the sex lives of transgender men and their feelings around their genitals – in very little detail. The book is informative, not explicit.
Should we stock texts that are explicit guides to partnered sex, these will be restricted to 18+ users. Likewise, novels written for adults with explicit sex scenes will be classed as 18+. An example currently in our collection is Confessions of the Fox.
Again, we don’t want to give the impression that we believe that this content to be disgusting, inflammatory or offensive. Sex is an ordinary, important part of the lives of most queer people, and queer sexuality in particular has been stigmatised and villified for centuries. We are proud to stock texts about queer sexuality. However, it is just as important to us that GCLL can remain online, and this involves preventing minors gaining access to some works.
We hope you understand our reasoning. If you have any queries around why a specific text is classified the way that it is, contact us.