The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge 2023 - hosted by thestorygraph

A nonfiction history book about an LGBTQIA+ issue or person
Feel free to combine this one with #4!
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Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History by Holly Kyte

Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History

Holly Kyte

464 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
Be Gay, Do Comics by Matt Bors, Sarah Mirk, Eleri Harris

Be Gay, Do Comics

Matt Bors, Sarah Mirk, Eleri Harris

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction comics history lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao

Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

Yao Xiao

128 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction comics lgbtqia+ challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

Richard A. McKay

400 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

304 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown

Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy

Judith C. Brown

224 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag by Craig Seligman

Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag

Craig Seligman

missing page info • missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography gender historical lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff

Monsters in the Closet

Harry Benshoff

328 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ dark informative medium-paced
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

Mark Dery

512 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction art biography informative reflective slow-paced
A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor

A Sentimental Education

Hannah McGregor

142 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender memoir sociology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced