A Year of Queer, Trans, Butch, and Female Masculinities

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7 participants (88 books)

07 Jan 2025—07 Jan 2026

Overview

Twelve months for you to read books about lesbian, queer, trans, or female masculinities. Manhood optional, but possible. Books about butches, mascs, bois, men by choice, trans men,  female men, and other liberatory masculinity.

Challenge Books

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Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica by Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel

Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica

Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel

200 pages • 1996

fiction erotica hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced
Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs, Andrew Eakett

Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

Alex L. Combs, Andrew Eakett

384 pages • 2025

nonfiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+
Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen: Men in Community Queering the Masculine by Peter Hennen

Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen: Men in Community Queering the Masculine

Peter Hennen

243 pages • paperback • 2008

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives by Angela Pattatucci-Aragon

Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives

Angela Pattatucci-Aragon

270 pages • paperback

nonfiction lgbtqia+ psychology
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

Jack Halberstam

240 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

Lillian Faderman

400 pages • paperback • 1991

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
Reflections on Female and Trans* Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings by

Reflections on Female and Trans* Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings

265 pages • hardcover

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Emily Skidmore

True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Emily Skidmore

272 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities by Will Roscoe, Stephen O. Murray

Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities

Will Roscoe, Stephen O. Murray

352 pages • 1998

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
Female Husbands by Jen Manion

Female Husbands

Jen Manion

350 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative reflective slow-paced