Gay & Lesbian

"The Love I Deserve" is the first book in the Finding Home series. James has spent his whole life being bounced around between different foster homes since he was seven. When he gets placed with the Hernandez family he doesn't think it will be any different than all the other homes he's been in. What he never counted on was meeting Kevin the charming boy down the road. Kevin has lived with his aunts since his parents died. When he heard that a new foster kid was going to be staying with the Hernandez family he thought nothing of it. They had foster kids before, then he meets James and he is unlike anyone he's ever met before. Kevin falls fast and hard but will James be able to o ...

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This book is my assertion of who I am. It is about sharing myself through prose, poetry, and photographs. I am proud that I have been out in my LGBTQ+ community for over 50 years and am thriving.

Paris Resurrected, named in honor of the groundbreaking documentary Paris is Burning, is a deep dive into black queer and trans identities, and the points at which those identities intersect with other aspects of life. Paris Resurrected is a concerted effort to put the experiences of a black, nonbinary person into writing in a world where those identities are not represented in bodies of literature.

Rainbow Elephant is a book of literary and spoken word poetry exploring facets of the life of Taria Person; a queer, African American woman. She recounts authentic experiences and memories from her journey that include a wide spectrum of topics—both beautiful and traumatic, such as family and heritage, depression and anxiety, thoughts of suicide, uplifting community and her own unique methods of coping.

Driving for Uber by day and sleeping with strangers by night, Justin Perkins is intimately familiar with desperation and idiocy. However, ignoring your best friend’s advice and falling for someone who has stated multiple times that he’s still hung up on his ex… well, that’s just Justin in a nutshell. Daniel “Peaches” Caudlin is neither rich nor hot, a Los Angeles anomaly. In fact, he’s about as average as average can be, but his soft-spoken demeanor and unassuming kindness is what draws Justin in, even as Peaches warns him that he is still pining over his ex– someone who actually is hot. Way hotter than Justin, in fact, and superior in nearly every way. So what does Justin do when eve ...

The ending of the series, the question is what’s to come of these character’s lives? Will Christina be able to cope with her tragic event and be able to speak on it to a broader audience? How will Nathan’s impact on sports be now that he’s come out as a gay man? Will Heather become stronger for herself and kick the alcohol addiction and become closer to her children? It’s a journey of the characters and how they’re approaching the future and what’s to come. While many stories have happy endings, life has a way of making you realize that it isn’t always about happily ever after but about going through experiences to make you stronger than you’ll ever be.

Prince Mark has been abducted and is now trapped in the reclusive kingdom of the Emerald Division, but his green-haired captor does not open up easily. With every new layer Mark discovers, he realizes there are many more secrets hidden beneath King McLoughlin’s icy stare. Please note, there IS adult content in this book, including some scenes that could potentially be triggering.

In Shyne Nelson's first collection of poems, essays and short stories, Nelson make's visible, the pain and magic of growing up a black man in America. Telling the coming-of-age stories of his peers and chanting that black men are present, lovable and anything but invisible. His "aggressively honest" approach to storytelling is one that will make you laugh, cry, think, but most importantly relate. Tackling subjects as taboo as prostitution in the short story "The Client List" to presenting a different prospective of the age old infidelity issue in the poem "He exist, because of you." Nelson's debut is sure to start plenty of conversations. "Things Unsaid" addresses just that: The things ...