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  1. Virtually Normal Andrew Sullivan “Silence, if it does not equal death, equals the living equivalent.” Excerpts from Andrew Sullivan’s seminal 1993 essay “The Politics of Homosexuality,” which changed the discourse on LGBT rights:

    Virtually Normal

    Andrew Sullivan

    “Silence, if it does not equal death, equals the living equivalent.”

    Excerpts from Andrew Sullivan’s seminal 1993 essay “The Politics of Homosexuality,” which changed the discourse on LGBT rights:
  2. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture Jonathan D. Katz An ambitious look at the history of sexual difference, published as a companion volume to a Smithsonian exhibition of the same title, but offering a powerful stand-alone piece of visual scholarship charting the hidden impact of gay and lesbian artists on the history of art and portraiture and how they explored the fluidity of gender and sexuality.

    Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

    Jonathan D. Katz

    An ambitious look at the history of sexual difference, published as a companion volume to a Smithsonian exhibition of the same title, but offering a powerful stand-alone piece of visual scholarship charting the hidden impact of gay and lesbian artists on the history of art and portraiture and how they explored the fluidity of gender and sexuality.
  3. The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to their Younger Selves Sarah Moon 63 celebrated queer authors – including David Levithan, Amy Bloom, Brian Selznick, Gregory Maguire, and Lucy Thurber – offer honest, heartening, profoundly moving personal missives to their younger selves.

    The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to their Younger Selves

    Sarah Moon

    63 celebrated queer authors – including David Levithan, Amy Bloom, Brian Selznick, Gregory Maguire, and Lucy Thurber – offer honest, heartening, profoundly moving personal missives to their younger selves.