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LGBTQIA Well-Being books

Below are the best books we could find on LGBTQIA Well-Being.

LGBTQIA well-being is vital in a world that is frequently and often violently intolerant of any sexual orientation or gender identity that doesn’t match the culture’s accepted norms, usually of cisgendered heterosexuality. Everyone has the right to live a vibrant life in their full identity, and the struggle for physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being can find support from those who understand and validate the complexities, nuance, pain, and joy of the community’s lived experiences.

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The Other Mother: A Wickedly Honest Parenting Tale for Every Kind of Family

I’m Jen Brister: stand-up comedian, middle-aged adolescent, and mum. But not that mum—I’m the other one. Confused? Two years ago, my partner (a woman—we’re not solicitors) gave birth to twins. (I know! Believe me, I’m still reeling myself.

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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is happening inside his head.

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Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity

In an age where neither society nor the church knows what to do with gay Christians, Greg Coles tells his own story. Let's make a deal, you and me. Let's make promises to each other. I promise to tell you my story. The whole story.

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Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary

“This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you already know what’s in these stories, or you think you don't need to know, you're wrong.

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How to Be a Girl: A Mother’s Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter

Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. When Marlo Mack’s three-year-old utters these words, her world splits wide open.

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Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

One might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and lesbians fought a tough fight and finally achieved equality in the United States through access to legal marriage.

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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.

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Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence

Domestic violence in gay male relationships is the third largest health problem for gay men in America today. Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them breaks the silence surrounding gay male domestic violence and exposes this hidden yet prevalent and destructive problem.

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Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship

When you are showered with attention, it can feel incredibly romantic and can blind you to hints of problems ahead. But what happens when attentiveness becomes domination? In some relationships, the desire to control leads to jealousy, gaslighting, threats, micromanaging—even physical violence.

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We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World

In this significant collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States.

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