🏥 The AIDS Crisis

Urgent, often devastating narratives from the epidemic that ravaged a generation, documenting the grief, activism, love, and institutional failure that defined the crisis and its survivors.

All the Young Men

by Ruth Coker Burks • 2020

When doctors refused to touch them, one Arkansas mother held their hands until the end.

4.49

9k+

💔 Aids Crisis 🏡 Southern Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq Activism

All the Young Men 90%

When doctors refused to touch them, one Arkansas mother held their hands until the end.

by Ruth Coker Burks 2020

4.49

9k+ ratings

💔 Aids Crisis 🏡 Southern Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq Activism

First Comes Love

by Marion Winik • 1996

She fell for a gay man during Mardi Gras. Marriage, meth, motherhood, abuse, and AIDS came next.

4.14

441

✍️ Literary Memoir 💊 Aids Crisis 💔 Unconventional Marriage

First Comes Love 89%

She fell for a gay man during Mardi Gras. Marriage, meth, motherhood, abuse, and AIDS came next.

by Marion Winik 1996

4.14

441 ratings

✍️ Literary Memoir 💊 Aids Crisis 💔 Unconventional Marriage

See A Little Light

by Bob Mould • 2011

Father's fury. The Ramones' first record. Then amphetamines and a closet that almost won.

3.80

2k+

🔥 Hardcore Punk 🌈 Closeted Identity 🤝 Creative Partnerships

See A Little Light 88%

Father's fury. The Ramones' first record. Then amphetamines and a closet that almost won.

by Bob Mould 2011

3.80

2k+ ratings

🔥 Hardcore Punk 🌈 Closeted Identity 🤝 Creative Partnerships

The Great Believers

by Rebecca Makkai • 2018

Chicago, 1985: a gallery director works to preserve lost art as AIDS devastates his gay community.

4.30

175k+

🩸 Aids Crisis Fiction ⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 🫂 Chosen Family

The Great Believers 87%

Chicago, 1985: a gallery director works to preserve lost art as AIDS devastates his gay community.

by Rebecca Makkai 2018

4.30

175k+ ratings

🩸 Aids Crisis Fiction ⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 🫂 Chosen Family

Over the Top

by Jonathan Van Ness • 2019

A hairdresser's path from meth addiction to Queer Eye stardom, and the secret he carried.

4.18

69k+

🧑‍🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 💊 Addiction Recovery

Over the Top 87%

A hairdresser's path from meth addiction to Queer Eye stardom, and the secret he carried.

by Jonathan Van Ness 2019

4.18

69k+ ratings

🧑‍🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 💊 Addiction Recovery

Love in the Big City

by Sang Young Park • 2019

A gay man in Seoul chases love through friendship, loss, and a secret he cannot shake.

3.67

18k+

🏠 Chosen Family 💔 Friendship Drift 💊 Living With Hiv

Love in the Big City 87%

A gay man in Seoul chases love through friendship, loss, and a secret he cannot shake.

by Sang Young Park 2019

3.67

18k+ ratings

🏠 Chosen Family 💔 Friendship Drift 💊 Living With Hiv

Transgender History

by Susan Stryker • 2008

The trans rights battle traces to 1850s dress-code laws. Stonewall was the middle, not the start.

4.22

6k+

📜 Transgender History 🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History 🏥 Medical Gatekeeping

Transgender History 86%

The trans rights battle traces to 1850s dress-code laws. Stonewall was the middle, not the start.

by Susan Stryker 2008

4.22

6k+ ratings

📜 Transgender History 🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History 🏥 Medical Gatekeeping

The Premonition

by Michael Lewis • 2021

A handful of outsiders saw COVID-19 coming and built the warning system the CDC refused to.

4.32

43k+

🏥 Public Health 🦠 Epidemiology 🚨 Pandemic Response

The Premonition 86%

A handful of outsiders saw COVID-19 coming and built the warning system the CDC refused to.

by Michael Lewis 2021

4.32

43k+ ratings

🏥 Public Health 🦠 Epidemiology 🚨 Pandemic Response

Love That Story

by Jonathan Van Ness • 2022

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

4.09

8k+

📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights

Love That Story 86%

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

by Jonathan Van Ness 2022

4.09

8k+ ratings

📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights

No One’s Coming

by Kevin Hazzard • 2026

Two doctors catch Ebola in Liberia. Every government refuses. One crew of outlaw pilots flies in.

4.45

820

🧫 Ebola Crisis 🚑 Disaster Medicine 🏛️ Government Failure

No One’s Coming 86%

Two doctors catch Ebola in Liberia. Every government refuses. One crew of outlaw pilots flies in.

by Kevin Hazzard 2026

4.45

820 ratings

🧫 Ebola Crisis 🚑 Disaster Medicine 🏛️ Government Failure

The Mayor of Castro Street

by Randy Shilts • 1982

Shot in City Hall. His killer's light sentence ignited riots that launched the gay rights movement.

4.15

5k+

🏳️‍🌈 Gay Political History 🌉 San Francisco History 🔫 Political Assassination

The Mayor of Castro Street 86%

Shot in City Hall. His killer's light sentence ignited riots that launched the gay rights movement.

by Randy Shilts 1982

4.15

5k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Gay Political History 🌉 San Francisco History 🔫 Political Assassination

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin • 2018

Four siblings learn the dates of their deaths. Each life becomes a negotiation with the prophecy.

3.71

221k+

📜 Family Saga 🔮 Prophecy And Fate 👫 Sibling Bonds

The Immortalists 86%

Four siblings learn the dates of their deaths. Each life becomes a negotiation with the prophecy.

by Chloe Benjamin 2018

3.71

221k+ ratings

📜 Family Saga 🔮 Prophecy And Fate 👫 Sibling Bonds

The Heart's Invisible Furies

by John Boyne • 2017

Adopted into a family that calls him stranger, a gay man searches a lifetime for belonging.

4.51

217k+

🕰️ Epic Historical Saga ☘️ Mid-Century Ireland ✝️ Catholic Guilt

The Heart's Invisible Furies 86%

Adopted into a family that calls him stranger, a gay man searches a lifetime for belonging.

by John Boyne 2017

4.51

217k+ ratings

🕰️ Epic Historical Saga ☘️ Mid-Century Ireland ✝️ Catholic Guilt

A Single Man

by Christopher Isherwood • 1964

Bereaved, a gay professor teaches, drinks, and searches for connection across one day in 1960s LA.

4.05

38k+

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎓 Campus Novel 💔 Age Gap Desire

A Single Man 86%

Bereaved, a gay professor teaches, drinks, and searches for connection across one day in 1960s LA.

by Christopher Isherwood 1964

4.05

38k+ ratings

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎓 Campus Novel 💔 Age Gap Desire

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

by Matt Baume • 2023

How sitcoms smuggled queer life past the censors and changed what America saw as normal.

4.30

2k+

📺 Television History 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Representation 🎭 Sitcom History

Hi Honey, I'm Homo! 86%

How sitcoms smuggled queer life past the censors and changed what America saw as normal.

by Matt Baume 2023

4.30

2k+ ratings

📺 Television History 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Representation 🎭 Sitcom History

Bad Gays

by Huw Lemmey • 2022

Gay history's villains reveal more about power, race, and assimilation than its heroes.

3.55

6k+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer History 📚 Lgbtq Studies 🚫 Anti-Respectability Politics

Bad Gays 86%

Gay history's villains reveal more about power, race, and assimilation than its heroes.

by Huw Lemmey 2022

3.55

6k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer History 📚 Lgbtq Studies 🚫 Anti-Respectability Politics

Disappoint Me

by Nicola Dinan • 2025

A trans poet, weary of being left behind, falls for a man with a buried past.

3.97

9k+

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Literary Fiction 👥 Queer Chosen Family 😮‍💨 Millennial Discontent

Disappoint Me 86%

A trans poet, weary of being left behind, falls for a man with a buried past.

by Nicola Dinan 2025

3.97

9k+ ratings

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Literary Fiction 👥 Queer Chosen Family 😮‍💨 Millennial Discontent

Mountains Beyond Mountains

by Tracy Kidder • 2003

He cured untreatable TB in a one-room Haitian clinic. That was just his warm-up.

4.20

89k+

🌍 Global Health Equity 🩺 Medical Anthropology 💸 Aid Critique

Mountains Beyond Mountains 86%

He cured untreatable TB in a one-room Haitian clinic. That was just his warm-up.

by Tracy Kidder 2003

4.20

89k+ ratings

🌍 Global Health Equity 🩺 Medical Anthropology 💸 Aid Critique

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

by Dan Savage • 2002

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

3.81

3k+

🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride

Skipping Towards Gomorrah 86%

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

by Dan Savage 2002

3.81

3k+ ratings

🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride

Crisis Averted

by Caitlin Rivers • 2024

Public health saves millions; why do we starve it until a crisis hits?

4.16

247

🔬 Epidemiology 📜 Health Policy 🕵️ Outbreak Investigation

Crisis Averted 86%

Public health saves millions; why do we starve it until a crisis hits?

by Caitlin Rivers 2024

4.16

247 ratings

🔬 Epidemiology 📜 Health Policy 🕵️ Outbreak Investigation

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

by Alison Arngrim • 2010

America hated her on screen. Her fury was real, and her own brother had created it.

4.10

19k+

🌟 Child Star Memoir 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎥 Behind The Scenes

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch 86%

America hated her on screen. Her fury was real, and her own brother had created it.

by Alison Arngrim 2010

4.10

19k+ ratings

🌟 Child Star Memoir 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎥 Behind The Scenes

I Fell in Love With Hope

by Lancali • 2022

They are collectors of moments, four terminally ill teens reclaiming life from death's waiting room.

3.81

34k+

🏥 Sick Lit 🫂 Found Family 🌈 Gay Coming Of Age

I Fell in Love With Hope 86%

They are collectors of moments, four terminally ill teens reclaiming life from death's waiting room.

by Lancali 2022

3.81

34k+ ratings

🏥 Sick Lit 🫂 Found Family 🌈 Gay Coming Of Age

Grasshopper Jungle

by Andrew Smith • 2014

An Iowa teen's spilled blood unleashes a giant insect apocalypse and a bisexual love triangle.

3.64

19k+

🧬 Engineered Plague 🐛 Giant Insect Horror 🔬 Cold War Secrets

Grasshopper Jungle 86%

An Iowa teen's spilled blood unleashes a giant insect apocalypse and a bisexual love triangle.

by Andrew Smith 2014

3.64

19k+ ratings

🧬 Engineered Plague 🐛 Giant Insect Horror 🔬 Cold War Secrets

The Cancer Journals

by Audre Lorde • 1980

A Black lesbian poet, after mastectomy, rejects the prosthesis and discovers what silence costs.

4.43

6k+

🩺 Cancer Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism

The Cancer Journals 86%

A Black lesbian poet, after mastectomy, rejects the prosthesis and discovers what silence costs.

by Audre Lorde 1980

4.43

6k+ ratings

🩺 Cancer Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism

Fellow Travelers

by Thomas Mallon • 2007

In McCarthy's Washington, a diplomat and a young idealist risk everything for a hidden affair.

3.60

6k+

🏳️‍🌈 Lavender Scare 🚪 Closeted Romance ⏳ Age Gap Romance

Fellow Travelers 86%

In McCarthy's Washington, a diplomat and a young idealist risk everything for a hidden affair.

by Thomas Mallon 2007

3.60

6k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Lavender Scare 🚪 Closeted Romance ⏳ Age Gap Romance

The Hot Zone

by Richard Preston • 1994

Ebola turns organs to liquid, kills nine in ten. In 1989, it surfaced in suburban Virginia.

4.16

122k+

🦠 Viral Outbreaks 🐒 Zoonotic Diseases 📰 Narrative Journalism

The Hot Zone 85%

Ebola turns organs to liquid, kills nine in ten. In 1989, it surfaced in suburban Virginia.

by Richard Preston 1994

4.16

122k+ ratings

🦠 Viral Outbreaks 🐒 Zoonotic Diseases 📰 Narrative Journalism

Uncontrolled Spread

by Scott Gottlieb • 2021

Every part of America's pandemic defense was designed for a different war.

4.06

1k+

🏥 Public Health Policy 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🏛️ Institutional Failure

Uncontrolled Spread 85%

Every part of America's pandemic defense was designed for a different war.

by Scott Gottlieb 2021

4.06

1k+ ratings

🏥 Public Health Policy 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🏛️ Institutional Failure

World War C

by Sanjay Gupta • 2021

We simulated this exact pandemic. It went exactly as predicted. Why wasn't anyone ready?

4.04

904

🦠 Pandemic Preparedness 🔬 Epidemiology 🌍 Global Health

World War C 85%

We simulated this exact pandemic. It went exactly as predicted. Why wasn't anyone ready?

by Sanjay Gupta 2021

4.04

904 ratings

🦠 Pandemic Preparedness 🔬 Epidemiology 🌍 Global Health

Just Kids

by Patti Smith • 2010

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

4.21

362k+

🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists

Just Kids 85%

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

by Patti Smith 2010

4.21

362k+ ratings

🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists

A Language of Limbs

by Dylin Hardcastle • 2024

Two girls caught loving each other in 1972: one exiled, one silent, both haunted for decades.

4.29

8k+

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 👥 Parallel Lives 🏠 Chosen Family

A Language of Limbs 85%

Two girls caught loving each other in 1972: one exiled, one silent, both haunted for decades.

by Dylin Hardcastle 2024

4.29

8k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 👥 Parallel Lives 🏠 Chosen Family

Role Models

by John Waters • 2010

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

4.07

8k+

🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture

Role Models 85%

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

by John Waters 2010

4.07

8k+ ratings

🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture

It Came from the Closet

by Joe Vallese • 2022

For queer viewers, horror cinema has always been a survival manual in disguise.

4.12

7k+

🌈 Queer Theory 🎬 Horror Criticism 👹 Monster Theory

It Came from the Closet 85%

For queer viewers, horror cinema has always been a survival manual in disguise.

by Joe Vallese 2022

4.12

7k+ ratings

🌈 Queer Theory 🎬 Horror Criticism 👹 Monster Theory

Ending Parkinson's Disease

by Ray Dorsey • 2020

Parkinson's is the fastest-growing brain disease, and the chemicals causing it are still legal.

4.31

328

🌍 Environmental Health 🧠 Neurological Disorders 📋 Public Health Policy

Ending Parkinson's Disease 85%

Parkinson's is the fastest-growing brain disease, and the chemicals causing it are still legal.

by Ray Dorsey 2020

4.31

328 ratings

🌍 Environmental Health 🧠 Neurological Disorders 📋 Public Health Policy

Push

by Sapphire • 1996

A pregnant, illiterate Harlem girl finds a classroom teaching her to read and reclaim her future.

3.88

60k+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🩹 Trauma Recovery 📚 Teacher-Student Bond

Push 85%

A pregnant, illiterate Harlem girl finds a classroom teaching her to read and reclaim her future.

by Sapphire 1996

3.88

60k+ ratings

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🩹 Trauma Recovery 📚 Teacher-Student Bond

How to Tell When We Will Die

by Johanna Hedva • 2024

The body fails. That's the truth ableism hides. A manifesto for those already living it.

3.76

1k+

♿ Disability Justice 🩻 Chronic Illness 💸 Anti-Capitalism

How to Tell When We Will Die 85%

The body fails. That's the truth ableism hides. A manifesto for those already living it.

by Johanna Hedva 2024

3.76

1k+ ratings

♿ Disability Justice 🩻 Chronic Illness 💸 Anti-Capitalism

Lawn Boy

by Jonathan Evison • 2018

Mike Muñoz is a lawn boy, a caretaker, and a man who's never been honest about who he loves.

3.83

10k+

🏗️ Working Class Fiction 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 👨‍👦 Sibling Caretaker

Lawn Boy 85%

Mike Muñoz is a lawn boy, a caretaker, and a man who's never been honest about who he loves.

by Jonathan Evison 2018

3.83

10k+ ratings

🏗️ Working Class Fiction 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 👨‍👦 Sibling Caretaker

2020

by Eric Klinenberg • 2024

COVID exposed America's preexisting condition: broken trust, racial inequality, willful forgetting.

3.89

439

🦠 Pandemic Politics 🏥 Health Inequality ⚖️ Structural Racism

2020 85%

COVID exposed America's preexisting condition: broken trust, racial inequality, willful forgetting.

by Eric Klinenberg 2024

3.89

439 ratings

🦠 Pandemic Politics 🏥 Health Inequality ⚖️ Structural Racism

Our Malady

by Timothy Snyder • 2020

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

4.14

2k+

🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine

Our Malady 85%

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

by Timothy Snyder 2020

4.14

2k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine

Rough Sleepers

by Tracy Kidder • 2023

The homeless die ten times faster. A Boston doctor found that trust is the only cure.

4.34

11k+

🏥 Homeless Healthcare 🧱 Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty

Rough Sleepers 85%

The homeless die ten times faster. A Boston doctor found that trust is the only cure.

by Tracy Kidder 2023

4.34

11k+ ratings

🏥 Homeless Healthcare 🧱 Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty

The Care We Dream Of

by Zena Sharman • 2021

Health care was never built for queer and trans people. Here is what comes after.

4.37

211

🩺 Health Justice ⚖️ Transformative Justice 🤝 Mutual Aid

The Care We Dream Of 85%

Health care was never built for queer and trans people. Here is what comes after.

by Zena Sharman 2021

4.37

211 ratings

🩺 Health Justice ⚖️ Transformative Justice 🤝 Mutual Aid

Suicide Notes

by Michael Thomas Ford • 2008

Fifteen and sarcastic, he wakes in a psych ward after a suicide attempt, certain he doesn't belong.

3.80

56k+

🧠 YA Mental Health 🏥 Psych Ward 📓 Diary Format

Suicide Notes 85%

Fifteen and sarcastic, he wakes in a psych ward after a suicide attempt, certain he doesn't belong.

by Michael Thomas Ford 2008

3.80

56k+ ratings

🧠 YA Mental Health 🏥 Psych Ward 📓 Diary Format

This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids

by Dan Owens-Reid • 2014

Your kid came out. Now what? Practical answers about school, faith, safety, and sex.

4.16

269

🌈 Parenting Lgbtq Kids 🚪 Coming Out Support 💬 Family Communication

This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids Summary

This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids 85%

Your kid came out. Now what? Practical answers about school, faith, safety, and sex.

by Dan Owens-Reid 2014

4.16

269 ratings

🌈 Parenting Lgbtq Kids 🚪 Coming Out Support 💬 Family Communication

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein • 1933

Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.

3.54

14k+

📖 Experimental Memoir 🎨 Literary Modernism 🛋️ Salon Culture

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Summary

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 85%

Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.

by Gertrude Stein 1933

3.54

14k+ ratings

📖 Experimental Memoir 🎨 Literary Modernism 🛋️ Salon Culture

Lorraine Hansberry

by Charles J. Shields • 2022

Closeted, radical, and a slumlord's daughter: the life that produced A Raisin in the Sun.

3.78

400

🎭 Literary Biography 🖤 Black Women Writers ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era

Lorraine Hansberry 85%

Closeted, radical, and a slumlord's daughter: the life that produced A Raisin in the Sun.

by Charles J. Shields 2022

3.78

400 ratings

🎭 Literary Biography 🖤 Black Women Writers ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era

Dangerous Angels

by Francesca Lia Block • 1998

In 90s LA, three genie wishes build a girl a found family, but love battles heartbreak.

4.25

9k+

✨ Magical Realism 🏠 Found Family 🧷 Punk Fairy Tale

Dangerous Angels 85%

In 90s LA, three genie wishes build a girl a found family, but love battles heartbreak.

by Francesca Lia Block 1998

4.25

9k+ ratings

✨ Magical Realism 🏠 Found Family 🧷 Punk Fairy Tale

Fun Home

by Alison Bechdel • 2006

The father ran a funeral home. The daughter drew comics. Both were gay. Only one survived.

4.07

204k+

🖼️ Graphic Memoir 🏠 Family Memoir 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age

Fun Home 85%

The father ran a funeral home. The daughter drew comics. Both were gay. Only one survived.

by Alison Bechdel 2006

4.07

204k+ ratings

🖼️ Graphic Memoir 🏠 Family Memoir 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age

All Boys Aren't Blue

by George M. Johnson • 2020

Inside his grandmother's home, safety. Outside: a world unprepared for a Black queer boy.

4.18

48k+

🏳️‍🌈 Black Queer Experience 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Memoir 💪 Redefining Masculinity

All Boys Aren't Blue 85%

Inside his grandmother's home, safety. Outside: a world unprepared for a Black queer boy.

by George M. Johnson 2020

4.18

48k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Black Queer Experience 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Memoir 💪 Redefining Masculinity

At Certain Points We Touch

by Lauren John Joseph • 2022

A neon sign jolts a trans writer to recount their doomed love affair with a dead photographer.

3.62

1k+

🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Narrative 💔 Doomed Romance 🌃 Queer Nightlife

At Certain Points We Touch 85%

A neon sign jolts a trans writer to recount their doomed love affair with a dead photographer.

by Lauren John Joseph 2022

3.62

1k+ ratings

🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Narrative 💔 Doomed Romance 🌃 Queer Nightlife

Unbearable Lightness

by Portia de Rossi • 2010

At 82 pounds, she collapsed on set, and her eating disorder still demanded more.

3.83

42k+

🍽️ Eating Disorder Memoirs 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🚪 Coming Out

Unbearable Lightness 85%

At 82 pounds, she collapsed on set, and her eating disorder still demanded more.

by Portia de Rossi 2010

3.83

42k+ ratings

🍽️ Eating Disorder Memoirs 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🚪 Coming Out

The Stonewall Riots

by Gayle E. Pitman • 2019

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

4.04

1k+

🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures

The Stonewall Riots 85%

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

by Gayle E. Pitman 2019

4.04

1k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures

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