Fabulosa Books

The third anthology from DOPAMINE Books explores the clown in all its forms—from the vulnerability of falling in love to the subversive magic of not giving a fuck. This collection of poetry, fiction, screenplay, and more features work from Megan...

Barry Walters, veteran music critic and author, traces LGBTQ+ music's radical journey from the underground dancefloors of the Seventies through the global charts of today. Drawing on decades covering New York and San Francisco's music scenes, Walters examines how queer...

Noel Quiñones reads from his visceral new poetry collection, a portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx. Through narrative poems and innovative forms inspired by color theory, Orange explores queerness, lies, and finding yourself within chosen and...

Joseph Osmundson, author of the award-finalist VIROLOGY, reads from his genre-bending memoir about queer family-making, scientific ethics, and building kinship beyond biology. When a lesbian couple he'd known since college asked him to be their bio-dad and co-parent, Joe thought...

A reading group centered on poetry and lived experience, bringing together people ready to sit with hard truths and find power in words. This intimate gathering at Fabulosa Books creates space to hear voices that the world tried to silence...

A reading group for people who care about LGBTQ+ literature and the conversations it sparks — the kind of Tuesday night where you actually get to talk about books with people who get it. Hosted at Fabulosa Books in the...

Jibz Cameron, the iconoclast performance artist behind Dynasty Handbag, reads from her debut memoir — a wild, unflinching journey from Northern California commune kid to East Bay punk zine maker to New York avant-garde provocateur. Hell in a Handbag is...

Brian Bouldrey reads from his darkly comic novel about Walace Weiss, a fantasy novelist in recovery wrestling with addiction, unfinished manuscripts, and the chaotic found family he's assembled in his neglected McMansion. It's a mock-epic that swings between absurdity and...

A thoughtful, poignant look at the AIDS crisis in the United States that includes primary source interviews, history, medical research, and cultural touchpoints. The AIDS crisis in America is complex and composed of countless individual stories of grief, love, and...

Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment. The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot's SOULMATE AS A VERB. Bodies make love possible, they enable tender connection and transmit...

Mark Abramson returns with the eighth book in his beloved Beach Reading series, bringing back all your favorite Castro characters alongside cameos from local drag legends Donna Sachet and Sister Roma. When Tim discovers his psychic grandmother's diary, he uncovers...

Susan Stryker brings her groundbreaking revised and updated edition of Transgender History to Fabulosa Books. This sweeping account charts over a century of trans life in America—from the 1800s through today—covering the movements, writings, and pivotal moments that shaped the...