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Queer Nonfiction Books Bracket: Round 1B

Choose a book:

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, edited by Hope Nicholson

When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan

Voting ended onJun 6

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, edited by Hope Nicholson

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel's A-Force), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over fifty more creators. It's a compilation of tales told from both sides of the tables: from the fans who love video games, comics, and sci-fi to those that work behind the scenes: creators and industry insiders.

Nonfiction, anthology, short stories, essay collection

When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan

Endorsement from submitter: "Queer historical research can be difficult. But the author does his darndest. The book features a lot of research on Brooklyn's role as a shipping hub, especially during the 1940s, and how the port of Brooklyn helped facilitate same-sex relations."

The groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.

When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history—a great forgetting.

Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time, and show how the formation of Brooklyn is inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created the Brooklyn we know today. Folks like Ella Wesner and Florence Hines, the most famous drag kings of the late-1800s; E. Trondle, a transgender man whose arrest in Brooklyn captured headlines for weeks in 1913; Hamilton Easter Field, whose art commune in Brooklyn Heights nurtured Hart Crane and John Dos Passos; Mabel Hampton, a black lesbian who worked as a dancer at Coney Island in the 1920s; Gustave Beekman, the Brooklyn brothel owner at the center of a WWII gay Nazi spy scandal; and Josiah Marvel, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum who helped create a first-of-its-kind treatment program for gay men arrested for public sex in the 1950s. Through their stories, WBWQ brings Brooklyn’s queer past to life.

Nonfiction, history

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👾 The Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited by Hope Nicholson

This book is a nonfiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories about the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators.

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Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time | Top Ten Tuesday

Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time | Top Ten Tuesday

The topic this week is Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time! I do sometimes reread the books I love most, but there is no denying that some of the magic is lost after you complete a book for the first time. There’s something so special about finding out all the twists for the first time, laughing at all the jokes that won’t hit as hard on rereads and just discovering the story…

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Fave Five: All-Queer Anthologies All Out and Out Now ed. by Saundra Mitchell Summer Love and If the Fates Allow…

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TPIJ Book Recommendation: “Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology” Edited by Hope Nicholson*

Representation: LGBTIA+

"Love Beyond, Body, Space, and Time" is a collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters.

These stories range from a transgender woman trying an experimental transition medication to young lovers separated through decades and meeting far in their own future.

These are stories of machines and magic, love, and self-love.

*All Authors featured are Authors of Color

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So pumped! Bedside Press' 'Work for a Million' Kickstarter has finally launched! Here's the pin-up I created as part of the Print Folio and Giclée Print perks. Would def recommend checking it out, any and all support is greatly appreciated 💗

Elizabeth B.

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From my contribution to the PROS AND COMICS CONS anthology, in comic shops today, edited by Hope Nicholson and published by Dark Horse.

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7 covers in 7 days

Rules: each day, I will post the cover of a book that I love and nominate someone new to start the challenge. No explanation, no discussion, just post the cover and by doing so spread some literary love!

Day 2: The Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited by Hope Nicholson 

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