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This audiobook includes an exclusive introduction from Sandi Toksvig OBE. Find all the information you need – and more – about becoming a parent with this groundbreaking and comprehensive guide for the LGBTQ+ community, written and read by the hosts of the award-winning podcast Some Families...

‘[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life’ BOB ODENKIRK ‘Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary’ NATHAN FILER, author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL 'At its heart a story about love … an astonishing new voice' ALI MILLAR, author of THE LAST DAYS ‘I’m...

In the early 1990s, eight people living in a small conservative Florida town alleged that Dr. David Acer, their dentist, infected them with HIV. David's gayness, along with his sickly appearance from his own AIDS-related illness, made him the perfect scapegoat and victim of mob mentality. In these early years of the AIDS epidemic, when transmission was little understood, and homophobia rampant, people like David were villainized. Accuser Kimberly Bergalis landed a People magazine cover story, while others went on talk shows and made front page news.

Soho 1925. Two young men meet - for one of them this is love at first sight, for the other only lust and guilt.... Paul Harris returns to England from self-imposed exile in Tangiers for an exhibition of his paintings. He leaves behind Patrick, the man he has loved since they met in the trenches in 1918, needing to discover if he has the strength to live without him and wanting to explore the kind of life he might have lived had it not been for the war. In Bohemian Soho, Paul meets Edmund....

The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father’s home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries her through a sense of loyalty. Though Adam he finds work as a schoolteacher; while setting up a home with Margot he continues to see Adam. Pat Morgan who was a sergeant in Paul’s platoon, runs a butcher’s shop in town and cares for his twin brother, Mick who lost both legs in the war. Pat yearns for the closeness he experienced with Paul in the trenches.

With trustworthy information and an accessible, straightforward plan, Parenting with Pride provides actionable yet profound tools and mental shifts to help parents support their teens and themselves and to be a catalyst for change in their communities.

When divorce moves young R/B Mertz away from rural Pennsylvania and their abusive father, Mertz's life is torn in two. Mertz's mom and new stepdad dive headfirst into conservative Catholic homeschooling, entrenching themselves in a world dominated by saints, prayers, and having as many babies as possible, just as Mertz is starting to realize they might be queer. Trying to stave off the inevitable, Mertz later enrolls in a conservative Catholic college in Ohio.

Midlife Emergence is a revelatory memoir and an inviting guidebook; it is a compassionate companion that belongs in the collection of every woman who finds herself burning to reclaim powerful parts of herself that social conditioning locked away. Midlife doesn’t need to be a crisis or an emergency—rather, it’s an emergence, an opportunity to make those beautiful, unexpressed facets shamelessly visible.

This inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You’re Expecting for families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model—perfect for LGBTQ+ and solo parents who want to have kids but don’t know where to start. In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial...

Jaimie Kelton and Robin Hopkins, the creators and hosts of the popular podcast If These Ovaries Could Talk, realized the world needed to know there was more than one way to make an LGBTQ family. Each of their families came about in different ways, so how many other stories were out there? Turns out, lots. Inspired, the two friends launched their podcast asking LGTBQ families every question imaginable about their journeys to parenthood. Now the two hosts have written an audiobook based on dozens of interviews to help address recurring questions that came up during their podcast.

This is a story about life and death, because there was never anyone else for Jens. He had been with Sofie almost all his life, from the day they met at school when they were fifteen, until the day she took her final breath against his chest. She was always everything to him. As he was to her. He never doubted that. Not for a minute. This is an adventure of hope, where Axel Kleve keeps himself too busy to even stop and think. Work, sleep, eat, repeat.

Tell My Mother I Like Boys is a memoir of appetite—for food, for love, for belonging. Suvir Saran,one of India’s most celebrated chefs, traces a life lived between continents and cultures, where the kitchen becomes both a sanctuary and a crucible. From the spice-laden streets of New Delhi to...

在喧嚣且充满不确定性的当代酷儿交友软件与线下社交场中，如何打破自我怀疑的循环，建立真正契合的深度亲密关系？无论你正因为无休止的“左滑右滑”感到约会倦怠，还是在探索自我认同的边缘徘徊、渴望安全的情感着...

تجاوز قلق المواعدة الرقمية وابنِ علاقات صحية وتواصلا حقيقيا كعزوب يبحث عن الثقة في مجتمع الميم. إذا كنت تستعد لدخول عالم التعارف من جديد أو تطمح لبناء روابط عميقة...

Naviga il dating queer con sicurezza, superando l'ansia da appuntamento per costruire legami sani e autentici. Abbandona la frustrazione delle chat infinite e la costante paura del rifiuto che frena il tuo potenziale emotivo. Affronta il panorama digitale e urbano, spesso caotico, muovendoti...

Domine a arte dos encontros queer e transforme a insegurança em autoconfiança magnética para atrair conexões genuínas. Ideal para ouvir durante seu trajeto diário, este áudio oferece um espaço seguro e reflexivo para lidar com as pressões estéticas do universo afetivo masculino...

Supera la ansiedad en las citas queer y construye una conexión auténtica desde la confianza y el amor propio. Ya sea que deslices perfiles en aplicaciones o busques encuentros presenciales, navegar el romance actual puede resultar abrumador. Aquí aprenderás a relacionarte desde un espacio...

終わりのないスワイプの虚無感や他者との比較を手放し、ゲイ男性としての自己肯定感を高めながら、心から満たされる本当の愛情を引き寄せるための実践的なクィア恋愛ガイドです。マッチングアプリの通知に疲れ果て...

Meistere das queere Dating und stärke dein Selbstvertrauen für echte Beziehungen mit diesem ermutigenden Ratgeber. Wenn du frustrierende Online-Matches satthast und dich nach ehrlichen Begegnungen sehnst, liefert dir dieser Audio-Guide den perfekten Kompass. Lerne, deine eigenen Bedürfnisse...

"A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us" by the bestselling author of Magic Season ( The Washington Post ). Indie Next List "Great Read" Selection American Library Association's Inaugural "Rainbow List" Selection In this...