LGBTQ - Nonfiction

This list has been created by a Library Assistant at Wake County Public Libraries (WCPL) and encompasses *most* of the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus other identitites such as, intersex, asexual, aromantic, demisexual, demiromantic, nonbinary, genderqueer, and more) titles categorized under "Nonfiction" and "Biography" in the WCPL collection as of March 11, 2025.
 

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1. Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

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Author:
Hiller, Jeff
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10 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.

2. The dry season: a memoir of pleasure in a year without sex

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Author:
Febos, Melissa
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15 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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"A wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge In the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break--for three months she would abstain from dating, from relationships, even from casual sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Febos, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship or another. As she puts it, she could trace a "daisy...

3. Trying: A Memoir

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Author:
Caldwell, Chloe
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4. Elseship: an unrequited affair

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Abraham, Tree
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Green Road Community - Biography
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Wendell Community - Biography
B ABRAHAM
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"When Tree Abraham falls in love with her housemate who does not reciprocate the feeling, instead of breaking up, they keep going. This story begins where most end. elseship deftly and courageously recounts the starts and stops of a transitioning relationship. Having recorded the experience in real time, Abraham combines personal entries with illustrations, photos, and mind maps all organized within eight ancient Greek categories of love"--

5. Prisoner of love

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Author:
Genet, Jean, 1910-1986
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Green Road Community - Biography
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Holly Springs Community - Biography
B GENET
Middlecreek Community - Biography
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6. Reading the waves: a memoir

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Author:
Yuknavitch, Lidia
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Biography
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"The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal"--