Que(e)ry

News:

Que(e)ry in Print

Que(e)ry's in print! A chapter in Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Archives and Practice, just published by Library Juice Press, features an oral history of Que(e)ry parties and fundraising since 2010. Along with Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Identity and Libraries, this two-volume set contains several other thoughtful and entertaining conversations on queerness in library and archives work. You can buy your own copy of volume 1 here and volume 2 here. Use the code TEATIME for 30% off until August 31!

Also, some of the Que(e)ry team were involved in this new volume Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches, just published by ALA Publishing. A number of chapters deal with gender, sexuality, and queer topics in cataloging and metadata. 

Fall 2021 Reads

Here's another selection of recent and forthcoming books that have caught our eyes. What's on your list? Send us your recommendations to add here, and look for these titles at your local libraries and independent bookstores!

Fiction:

• Several People are Typing /  Calvin Kasulke

• 100 Boyfriends / Brontez Purnell

• The Darkness Outside Us / Eliot Schrefer

• A Dream of A Woman: Stories / Casey Plett

• The World Cannot Give / Tara Isabella Burton

• Honey Girl / Morgan Rogers

• The Magician / Colm Tóibín

• Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck: Stories / Joe Okonkwo

• Radiant Fugitives / Nawaaz Ahmed

• The Airways / Jennifer Mills

• Things We Couldn't Say / Jay Coles

• The Wrong End of the Telescope / Rabih Alameddine

Memoir/Biography:

• The Audacity of a Kiss: A Memoir / Leslie Cohen

• Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark / Cassandra Peterson

• High Risk Homosexual : A Memoir / Edgar Gomez

• The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood / Krys Malcolm Belc

• Angela Davis: An Autobiography / Angela Davis

• We Are Not Broken / George M. Johnson

• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir / Akwaeke Emezi

Non-Fiction:

• Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures / Adam Zmith

• Trans New York: Photos and Stories of Trans New Yorkers / Peter Bussian

• Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean / Andil Gosine

• The Freezer Door / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

• LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness / Antoine Damiens

Poetry:

• Time is a Mother / Ocean Vuong

• Imagine Us, the Swarm / Muriel Leung

• All the Rage / Rosamond S. King

• Black Girl, Call Home / Jasmine Mans

Graphic Novels/Comics:

• Flamer / Mike Curato

• Apsara Engine / Bishakh Som

• The Contradictions / Sophie Yanow

• Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance / Syan Rose

Pride Month 2021

Happy Pride Month! Que(e)ry turns 11 years old this month, and while we don't have an in-person celebration in the works yet, we want to share some other events, and a few recent and forthcoming queer books that have caught our eyes, including some Lammy winners! Pick them up from your local queer bookstore or library! 

Fiction:

• Arcadia / Emmannuelle Bayamack-Tam

• The Chosen and the Beautiful / Nghi Vo 

• Filthy Animals / Brandon Taylor

• Future Feeling / Joss Lake

• Love After the End : An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction / edited by Joshua Whitehead

• Neotenica / Joon Oluchi Lee

• The Recent East / Thomas Grattan

• Sorrowland / Rivers Solomon

• With Teeth / Kristen Arnett

• Yes, Daddy / Jonathan Parks-Ramage

• 99 Erics / Julia Serano

Non-Fiction:

• Belly of the Beast / Da'Shaun L. Harrison

• Cruising : An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime / Alex Espinoza 

• Fat and Queer : An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives / edited by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini

• For Now / Eileen Myles 

• Gay Bar : Why We Went Out / Jeremy Atherton Lin

• Hola Papi : How to Come Out in a Walmart parking Lot and Other Life Lessons / J.P. Brammer.

• Let the Record Show : A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 / Sarah Schulman

• Love's Next Meeting : The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture / Aaron Lecklider

• Mutual Aid : Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) / Dean Spade

• Punch Me Up to the Gods / Brian Broome

• The Secret to Superhuman Strength / Alison Bechdel

• Undrowned : Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals / Alexis Pauline Gumbs

• Wow, No Thank You / Samantha Irby

Poetry:

• Divine Fire / David Woo 

• Funeral Diva / Pamela Sneed

• Postcolonial Love Poem / Natalie Diaz

• The Renunciations / Donika Kelly

• Salt Body Shimmer / Aricka Foreman

• 13th Balloon / Mark Bibbins

Events:

June 10: Queer Love in Color: Jamal Jordan with Blair Imani (NYPL)

June 12: Brooklyn Pride

June 13: Brooklyn Liberation Action for Trans Youth

June 17: Ice Cream Social Celebrating Pride Month (Brooklyn; METRO Library Council)

June 27: Queer Liberation March (NYC)

June 27: Rainbow Roundtable Virtual Social (ALA Annual)

June 28: Stonewall Book Awards Celebration (Virtual, ALA Annual)

June 28: Virtual LGBTQ Pride Night (Library of Congress)

More June and Pride events hosted by:

• New York Public Library

• Brooklyn Public Library

• Queens Public Library

• Library of Congress

• BGSQD Bookstore