"Full of colourful, authentic characters and set in Toronto, Confessions of a Teenage Drag King highlights diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, and identity."
Confessions of a Teenage Drag King Markus Harwood-Jones Paperback | Sep 2020 in store$14.95
"The author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough weaves an unforgettable and timely dystopian account of a near-future when a queer Black performer and his allies join forces against an oppressive regime that is rounding up those deemed 'Other' in concentration camps."
Crosshairs Catherine Hernandez Paperback | Sep 2020 sold out$22.99 (on order)
"All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn’t know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices"
Salma the Syrian Chef Danny Ramadan Hardcover | Mar 2020 in store$21.95
"I'd gladly put this in the hands of any young person, especially those exploring their own gender identity... Love Me For Who I Am is about gender as one aspect of our own multi-faceted, evolving identities." -MJ
Love Me for Who I Am Vol. 1 Kata Konayama Paperback | Jun 2020 not in store(unavailable)
"In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger--and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it--needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness, or a road map for using spirit"
Love and Rage Lama Rod Owens Paperback | Jun 2020 in store$23.95 (more on order)
"The Bone Mother revives the great figures of Slavic mythology on the eve of the Second World War, from rusalka and Baba Yaga--The Bone Mother herself--to the golem."
The Bone Mother David Demchuk Paperback | May 2020 sold out$20.00 (on order)
"When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, Rachel Matlow is concerned but hopeful. It's Stage 1, so her mom will get surgery and everything will go back to normal. But growing up in Rachel's family, there was no normal."
Dead Mom Walking Rachel Matlow Paperback | Mar 2020 in store$24.95
"Brutally honest prose I just couldn't put down. Cloud Cover explores the different ways that its main character triumphs over and falls victim to his struggles with sexuality, body image, masculinity and disordered eating." -Robbie
Cloud Cover Jeffrey Sotto Paperback | Nov 2019 in store$19.95
"Jonny Appleseed is a powerful portrait of an Indigenous life in the contemporary Manitoba, with all of its struggles and triumphs. An achingly beautiful and unhindered portrayal of the magic of Indigenous resilience." -Nico
Jonny Appleseed Joshua Whitehead Paperback | Apr 2018 in store$19.95 (more on order)
"When I saw it advertised as 'Superman but gay' I bought it immediately and was not disappointed." -MJ
Freelance Volume 01 Jim Zub Paperback | Dec 2019 in store$17.50
Glad Day Bookshop is the first Canadian and the oldest queer bookstore worldwide. Serving the LGBTQ community since 1970, we specialize in offering the widest possible selection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, two-spirit, and queer literature.
Pocket Change Collective 1: Adam Eli and Alok Vaid-Menon in Conversation with Seth Day
Tuesday September 29 | 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Glad Day Bookshop is thrilled to partner with the Koffler Centre of the Arts and Penguin Teen Canada's Pocket Change Collective to celebrate two incredible authors.
Our Fall 2020 Books & Ideas season begins with online conversations with the writers of Penguin Teen Canada’s Pocket Change Collective, a series of small books with big ideas by today's leading youth activists and artists.
SMUT PEDDLERS: GLAD DAY 50 LIMITED EDITION ZINE
Product info: Paperback, 40 pages, full colour, $20.00
Shipping fee: $5.95 for 1st zine, $1.00 for each individual zine, no additional charge to add it to an existing order
They were buying adrienne maree brown's "Pleasure Activism", you were buying a smutty zine and some sexy vintage postcards when you made eye contact in front of the QTBIPOC Faves shelf. You cuddled up during a Sapphic Sundays screening... if a hand wandered south in the darkness, who's to say?
Celebrating 50 years of sexual liberation and sexually charged art with stories that are intended to titillate and tantalize, the SMUT PEDDLERS: GLAD DAY 50 ZINE is chock full of smutty stories, poetry and photography lustily curated by the Smut Peddlers team.
