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Transgender Child
Stephanie Brill
Rachel Pepper

The Transgender Child is a first-of-its-kind guidebook for the unique challenges that thousands of families face raising children who step outside of the pink or blue box. [more]

Open for Business
Edited by Alison Tyler

Water-cooler gossip has never been this juicy. These 22 new stories give new meaning to mixing business with pleasure. [more]

Best Gay Bondage Erotica
Edited by Richard Labonté

Intricately secured by ropes, locked in handcuffs, or bound simply by a lover's command, the men in these stories crave erotic restraint. [more]

Opening Up
Tristan Taormino

Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. [more]

Boys in Heat
Edited by Richard Labonté

Boys rubbing together create friction and then fire in this sizzling collection of erotic stories. [more]

Rubber Sex
Edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Powerful dommes in catsuits, luscious women in latex, hunky men showing off every straining inch in tight PVC... [more]

Cleis Press publishes provocative, intelligent books in the areas of sexuality, gay and lesbian studies, erotica, fiction, gender studies, and human rights. Read an interview with Cleis publishers Felice Newman and Frédérique Delacoste.

Christmas in July?
Alison Tyler's holiday erotica collections are a mid-summer hit.

Whole Lesbian Sex Book author Felice Newman wants to hear from lesbians who have hot sex
Newman is researching a new lesbian couples' sex guide and wants your help.

Askowitz launches book tour
Andrea Askowitz, author of My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy launches a bicoastal book tour for the new memoir.

Taormino celebrates Opening Up
Tristan Taormino promotes the release of Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships with events nationwide.

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Opening Up: Changing the Way We Think About Intimacy

"There is not a typical person who chooses nonmonogamy, but the people who practice it do tend to have certain characteristics in common. They are brave, first and foremost..." read>>

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My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy
Andrea Askowitz

"The woman closest to me is eating Saltines. The sound of her eating makes me want to retch. I wish she would offer me one." [more]