LGBTQ Literature

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There is a rich and prominent history of LGBTQ authors over the years. James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Patricia Highsmith are just a few of the many excellent authors of LGBTQ literature.

Click on a title for more information. Find something you're interested in?  Call the library at 286-4894 or email nflref@nioga.org and we will pull a copy for you to pick up!

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Emma Straub – All Adults Here

Jennifer Finney Boyland – ​Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs 

Andre Aciman -- ​Call Me By Your Name​ book Call Me By Your Name​ dvd

James Baldwin – ​Giovanni's Room

Maurice​ ​– a Merchant Ivory film

Frida Kahlo - The Diary of Frida Kahlo

Patricia Highsmith – ​Strangers on a Train​, ​The Talented Mr. Ripley

Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex

Oscar Wilde – ​The Picture of Dorian Gray

Michael Cunningham – ​The Hours

Sarah McBride – ​Tomorrow Will be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Trans Equality

Ed., Carolina De Robertis - Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times​ 

Garrard Conley –​ ​Boy Erased​ Book, Boy Erased​ Dvd

Tennessee Williams – ​A Streetcar Named Desire​ ​book A Streetcar Named Desire​ ​Dvd

Truman Capote – ​In Cold Blood​ book, In Cold Blood​ dvd
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Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's​ ​book, Breakfast at Tiffany's​ dvd

Fannie Flagg – ​Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop

Augusten Burroughs –​ ​Running with Scissors​ dvd

Armistead Maupin – ​T​ales of the City

Harper Lee – ​To Kill a Mockingbird​ book, To Kill a Mockingbird​ dvd

Gertrude Stein – ​The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Leslie Feinberg – ​Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul 

Annie Leibowitz – ​Annie Leibowitz at Work​, ​Annie Leibowitz: Portraits 2005-2016 

​Eve Ensler – ​The Vagina Monologues

Alice Walker – ​The Color Purple

A. Scott Berg -- ​Kate Remembered

​Angela Davis – ​Women, Race, and Class