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LGBTQ+ Resource Centre Lakeshore Campus List of Books Name of Book and Author Ace & Proud: An Asexual Anthology Author: A.K. Andrews Against Equality - Queer Revolution Not Mere Inclusion Author: Ryan Conrad Am I Blue? Edited by: Marion Dane Bauer Another Day Author: David Levithan Beast Author: Brie Spangler Bow Grip Author: Ivan E. Coyote Boys Like Her Author: Kate Bornstein Butch is a Noun Author: S. Bear Bergman Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir Author: Nicole Georges Close to spider man Author: Ivan E. Coyote Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability Author: Robert McRuer Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir Author: Kai Cheng Thom Fingersmith Author: Sarah Waters First Spring Grass Fire Author: Rae Spoon First Spring Grass Fire Author: Rae Spoon Funny Boy Author: Shyam Selvadurai Gender Failure Author: Rae Spoon & Ivan E. Coyote Girl Mans Up Author: M-E Girard Hold Me Closer Author: David Levithan If I Was Your Girl Author: Meredith Russo If You Could Be Mine Author: Sara Farizan Imagining Ourselves Author: Paula Goldman, Isabel Allende Loose End Author: Ivan E. Coyote Middlesex Author: Jeffrey Eugenides On Loving Women Author: Diane Obomsawin One in Every Crowd Author: Ivan E. Coyote One Mans Trash Author: Ivan E. Coyote Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir Author: Staceyann Chin Queer & Trans Artists of Colour Volume Two Author: Nia King Queering Social Work Education Author: Susan Hillock & Nick J Mule Rainbow Boys Author: Alex Sanchez Rainbow High Author: Alex Sanchez Rainbow Road Author: Alex Sanchez Skim Author: Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Social Problems in a diverse society - 3rd Canadian Edition Author: Diane Kendal, Vivki L. Nygaard, Edward G. Thompson The ABC’s of LGBT+ Author: Ashley Mardell The Boy & The Bindi Author: Vivek Shraya The nearest exit may be behind you Author: S. Bear Bergman The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care Edited by: Zena Sharman The Slow Fix Author: Ivan E. Coyote Tomboy Survival Guide Author: Ivan Coyote Two beds for Liz Author: Peter Kanto What I love About being Queer Compiled & Edited by: Vivek Shraya What Makes a Baby Author: Cory Silverberg Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Author: Audre Lorde .

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