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Pride Month | Reading List

The revolutions of the queer future beckon. Take 30% off select titles and download free ebooks from our Radical Thinkers series!

Verso Books 1 June 2026

Pride Month | Reading List

In June, we celebrate Pride to honor the leaders and organizers that have helped advance the cause of queer liberation and to recognize the efforts of LGBTQIA+ activists that continue to stand on the frontlines in solidarity with the oppressed everywhere – from Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants to Queers for Palestine.

This year, we're taking 30% off the titles in our Pride Month Reading List and have made four ebooks from our Radical Thinkers series available to download for free! Discounts will appear in cart.

Free ebooks:

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Further Reading & Listening:

The Verso Book Club Podcast: Jules Gill-Peterson sits down with Eleanor Penny to discuss the history of trans misogyny.

"Y'all Better Quiet Down." Jules Gill-Peterson reflects upon Sylvia Rivera's infamous speech at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day commemoration.

A letter to Cybele: McKenzie Wark's letter to the goddess of thresholds, transitions, and street raves.

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  • Females
    “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and ...
    Paperback (2019)
  • Trans

    Trans

    In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to ...
    Paperback
  • Edward Carpenter
    The gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of, among other...
    Paperback
  • American Homo
    American Homo offers a sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural and economic struggles of lesbian, gay and bisexual people to reveal how sexual minorities have challenged and changed Amer...
    Paperback
  • Pink Triangles
    Though the interpretations of the interplay between sexism and capitalism, between the personal and the political, vary across this spectacularly wide ranging collection, each essay shares two fund...
    Paperback
  • Homosexuality
    After the leading organizations of radical sexual politics – the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group – imploded or dissolved, the Gay Left Collective formed a research group to make sens...
    Paperback

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