Pride
In BC, the first weekend in August is a long weekend, celebrating BC Day. It's also the same weekend as Pride, a celebration of the LGBTQ community. Some of these books are political, some of them are academic, some of them are by LGBTQ-identified authors, others just include LGBTQ characters.
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How Poetry Saved My Life
A Hustler's Memoir
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Gender Failure
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Quixotic Erotic
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Exile and the Heart
lesbian fiction
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Persistence
All Ways Butch and Femme
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One in Every Crowd
Stories
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Money Boy
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Missed Her
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Butch Is a Noun
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The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
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Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter
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First Person Queer
Who We Are (So Far)
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The Future is Queer
A Science Fiction Anthology
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The View from Here
Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
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Queer Theatre in Canada
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Queer Looks
Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
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Queer Judgments
Homosexuality, Expression, and the Courts in Canada
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In a Queer Country
Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context
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To Sappho, My Sister
Lesbian Sisters Write about their Lives
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Countering the Myths
Lesbians Write about the Men in Their Lives
Dykewords
An Anthology of Lesbian Writing
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Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada
Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995
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Out on the Field
Gender, Sport and Sexualities
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Pushing the Limits
Disabled Dykes Produce Culture