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At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat centre she founded after leaving his father, is wounded by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built.

Joey was one of the most accomplished pianists in the world during classical music’s last grand heyday at the end of the 20th century. He lived a luxurious life, and his performances in the great concert halls were globally televised. He was known even to people who do not follow music. But at the height of his career, before age 50, he suddenly and without explanation retired from playing. This set off a chain of press speculation as to why this consummate artist fell silent. Now, a biographer is seeking both mother and son, sensing a potentially explosive story.

Vivaan, a teenager in India’s silicon plateau, has discovered love on his smartphone. Intoxicating, boundary-breaking love. His parents know he is gay, and their support is something Vivaan can count on, but they don’t know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world. For his uncle, born thirty years earlier, things were very different. Mambro’s life changed forever when he fell for a male classmate at a time, and in a country, where the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality.

The Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family—but a summer of individual changes is about to shake their tight family unit. Bobby, the father, loses his job while his wife Mimi’s lucrative business leaps ahead. Their adopted son, Abbie, leverages his internet stardom into the makings of a career, while their adopted daughter, Dee, discovers who she really is. They’ll have to navigate the shifting landscapes of money and fame in the age of the internet, office politics, gender dynamics, and sexuality in a world that has just seen political upheaval.

Families should grow, not shrink. It’s been on Jon’s mind since before he tied the knot with his millionaire lover, Cole. Now hoping to adopt, Jon and Cole search for a mother-to-be willing to let them love her baby. The interminable wait is already unbearable, and when Jon’s well-intentioned father invites Cole’s estranged mother to spend Christmas with them in Munich, the results are disastrous.

That Which Makes Us Stronger is a colorful and brutally honest account of growing up gay in an alcoholic Midwestern household.

Mit ihrem Collegeabschluss frisch in der Tasche freut sich Emily auf New York – ein bisschen unbeschwerte Zeit genießen und dabei Geld sparen, um anschließend weiter zu studieren. Der einzige Haken: Ihre neue Chefin ist Camila, erfolgreiche Geschäftsführerin eines Fernseh-Imperiums, offen bisexuell und Emilys Idol und Promi-Schwarm. Doch Camilas kleiner Sohn Jaime erobert Emilys Herz im Sturm und schon bald kommen sich die beiden Frauen auch auf privater Ebene sehr viel näher, als gut für Emilys Seelenheil ist.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest.

It’s the final years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Bríd and her sister, Ina, try to maintain a stable life in a divided country. Pushed by her mother’s fanaticism and a family tragedy, Bríd joins the IRA and makes a devastating choice. Frightened and guilt ridden, she flees, leaving behind Ireland and her family for America. Years later, her guilt and tragic history still buried, Bríd is an overprotective mother raising her sensitive daughter, Bernie, in Southern California.

Husbands Thomas and Matt are enjoying a second-chance marriage after coming out, leaving their wives, and finding happiness in a summer cottage on the southern coast of Maine. They’ve kept a tenuous peace with their exes. Thomas toils in the garden. There is an ease to their love. This is the way life should be. But it’s not long before their three children—each nearing adulthood and fleeing personal crises of their own—descend on their fathers’ bliss. The two-bedroom getaway has just enough space for Thomas and Matt’s future. Now they must make room for the past, and all its drama.

Darcy Evans is getting married. In a week. To a man who is her childhood dream come true. But a late-night confession from her best friend changes everything and before she even has time to unpack it, she must endure a road trip to the ceremony with her estranged mother, Marja. It was always the two of them against the world…until Marja ghosted Darcy three years ago. No car in the world has enough room for all of their baggage.

It’s London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding pattern: his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless, and nobody will leave him alone. Everything is as it should be and yet nothing is right. Over the course of a year of partying, drinking, and flirting to dubious consequence, Hal is tested by brutal family legacies, Catholic guilt, and the terrifying possibility of being loved. The House of Lancaster will never be the same.

Diego já sabe muito bem que seu irmão só liga para ele em duas situações: no Natal e quando precisa de um favor. Mas dessa vez, unindo o inútil ao desagradável, Diogo decide inovar e pede um favor natalino: que Diego seja o Papai Noel na festa da escola dos sobrinhos. O problema é que Diego odeia o Natal. E fazer favores. Fugindo de todas as comemorações e decidido a deixar o irmão se virar, Diego recebe a visita de três espíritos natalinos (tal qual Ebenezer Scrooge) que são a cara dos seus sobrinhos e trazem a mensagem de que o Natal quer fazer as pazes.

Diego espera tudo de ruim dos próprios parentes, mas tudo mesmo. Que o pai tenha uma segunda família. Que a mãe comande um esquema de tráfico humano. Que o irmão lave dinheiro. Por serem versados em todos os crimes do manual da família tóxica, Diego decidiu ser gay bem longe deles. E tudo vai muitíssimo bem, obrigado.

Kendall eventually had surgery against her grandmother's wishes and belief that all should happily accept what God gives one. She became a girl and went on to college, where she fell in love and married Margery, a bisexual woman. As if the drama in Kendall’s life wasn’t enough, Margery’s mother disagreed with her sexual status and relationship, while the father came out to reveal he is also bisexual.

Tall. Toned. Attractive. Women were drawn to her easy confidence and mystique. They wanted to be near her and would do anything for her. Sage Bristo enjoyed the attention and her reputation. But what she really needed was a woman of conviction and passion. The last thing Deanne Demore wants in her life is a modern day Don Juana. And she is not about to get caught up in a ruinous relationship. So why is she watching Sage Bristo? More importantly, why is her heart racing?

This novel follows the lives of a straight married couple: a workaholic husband, a strong-willed wife, and her younger, troubled gay brother. The hold these three characters have on each other takes on mythic proportions when one of them faces a serious illness. As their relationships take an unexpected turn—one that doesn't always make sense—the listener will come to understand how love, in all its forms, can be stretched, even beyond the grave.

The MacInnes family is grieving. The loss of Miranda has devastated her husband, John Andrew, her eldest daughter, Tammy, and her youngest child, Dawn. Not Donnie anymore but Dawn, like sunrise, who transitioned while her mother received cancer treatment—without the rest of the family knowing. Now, when Dawn leaves Halifax for rural Nova Scotia to attend her mother's funeral, she knows she'll be meeting her sister and father for the first time as herself.

When sixteen-year-old Shae meets Cam, who is new to their small town in West Virginia, she thinks she has found someone who is everything she has ever wanted in a companion. The two become fast friends, and then more. And when Shae ends up pregnant, Cam begins a different transition—trying on clothes that Shae can no longer fit into and using female pronouns. Shae tries to be fully supportive as Cam becomes the person she wants and needs to be.

Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to construction worker to famed luchador El Rey Coyote, yet he has always worn a mask. He was discovered by a local lucha libre trainer at a time when luchadores—Mexican wrestlers donning flamboyant masks and capes—were treated as daredevils or rock stars. Ernesto found fame, rapidly gaining name rec­ognition across Mexico, but at great expense, nearly costing him his marriage to his wife Elena.