gender and gay and trans books and essays and more for all!

know your history

i hope to have this site as a collection of lgbt media that is free and accessible to all who need it. if you have anything that you think belongs here, please contact me! any pdfs, links, etc. i would like to add to this site so everyone can benefit. everthing is in order of when it was published, oldest first.

Some other things to explore: Lou Sullivan's bibliography, the Digital Transgender Archive, the Queer Zine Archive Project, the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, Whisper to a Roar, Transreads.

do you have something else that belongs here? let me know! you can email me at izephyr499@gmail.com



I can't vouch for everything on this site! i have not read everything here. you might encounter topics that are upsetting, opinions you dont like, etc. i encourage you to explore beyond the idea that everything you read has to be "right"

updates:


The Well of Loneliness
this is an EPUB stored on google drive that you can download. I use freda on desktop and the books app on mobile
Written by Radclyffe Hall
Published in 1928


The Gay Manifesto
This is a PDF hosted on someone else's site that you can view there
Written by Carl Wittman
Published in 1970


The Combahee River Collective Statement
This is text stored on someone else's site that you can view there
Written by Barbara Smith, Demita Frazier and Beverly Smith
Published in 1977


The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions
This is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Text by Larry Mitchell
Images by Ned Asta
published in 1977


Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual
This is a PDF hosted by the digital transgeder archive that you can view there
Written by Lou Sullivan
published in 1985


Queers Read This
this is a scan of the original that you can click through hosted on someone else's website
this is just the text without pictures or anything else hosted on someone else's website
Published anonymously in 1990


Transgender Liberation; a movement whose time as come
this is a PDF stored on someone else's site that you can view there or download
Written by Leslie Feinberg
Published in 1992


Stone Butch Blues
this is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Written by Leslie Feinberg
Published in 1993


Gendertrash From Hell #1
Gendertrash From Hell #2
Gendertrash From Hell #3
Gendertrash From Hell #4
these are all hosted on someone else's site.
Created by Xanthra Philippa and Mirha-Soleil Ross
Published from 1993 through 1995


Transgender Warriors: Making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
this is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Written by Leslie Feinberg
Published in 1996


Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
This is an EPUB stored on google drive that you can download. I use freda on desktop and the books app on mobile
Written by Leslie Feinberg
Published in 1998

Transgender Butch
This is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Written by Jack Halberstam
Published in 1998


Female Masculinity
this is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Written by Jack Halberstam
Published in 1998


the Transfeminist Manifesto
This is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Written by Emi Koyama
Published in 2001


Lavender and Red
This is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
written by Leslie Feinberg
Published through 2004-2008 by Workers of the World


Whipping Girl
This is PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Written by Julia Serano
Published in 2007


Transgender History
This is PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Written by Susan Stryker
Published in 2008


Nevada
this is website that links to free PDF, EPUB, and places to buy
Written by Imogen Binnie
Published in 2013


Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones
This is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
you can name your own price if you'd like to buy a pdf to support her! do that here.
Written by Torrey Peters
Published in 2016


Man-Made Woman: The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing
this is a PDF stored on google drive that you can view there or download
Written by Ciara Cremin
Published in 2017
(Big thank you to Dr. Cremin who very kindly sent me a copy of her book for this site!)


Helicopter Story
Written by Isabel Fall
Published in 2020 under the title "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter", though the title was later changed.
I know this story was controversial but i believe it belongs on this site. we love you isabel fall!


Detransition, Baby
Written by Torrey Peters
Published in 2021