Books like A queer kind of umbrella by George Baxt

Set in 1950s Paris, James Baldwin’s novel follows an American expatriate entangled in a doomed love triangle, confronting desire, morality, and sexual identity with stark honesty.

A cunning con man teams with an orphaned apprentice to swindle a wealthy heiress, but when the apprentice grows attached, the plot spirals into betrayal, deception and unexpected affection in a grim London slum.

Jeanette Winterson's debut novel follows a young woman's journey of faith and self-discovery.

Nan King, a young oyster girl, falls in love with glamorous music‑hall performer Kitty Butler, a male impersonator, and together they rise to stardom while exploring their hidden desires.

A romantic novel about a talented woman of aristocratic background who defies Victorian expectations and commercial success while pursuing her love for other women.

Hardy’s first novel follows the romantic adventures of black gay men navigating love and life in New York City.

Melvin Dixon’s *Vanishing Rooms* explores a passionate interracial romance amid the turbulence of 1970s Manhattan’s West Village, blending intimate love with the urban violence that shaped that era.

Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a GLAAD Award-winning journalist happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn't changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called "flyover country" rather than moving to the liberal coasts. In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only queer night club in Bloomington, Indiana, and many more. Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world, Real Queer America is a treasure trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of hope and inspiration in these divided times.

At a tenth‑anniversary high‑school reunion, Mitchell Crawford confronts the former gymnastics coach who stole his virginity and shattered his heart, forcing him to choose between vengeance and redemption.

In the sequel to B‑Boy Blues, Pooquie and Little Bit return to New York’s hip‑hop scene, navigating love and career while exploring the demands of partnership.

The City and the Pillar follows a young man's journey into adulthood as he confronts and accepts his homosexuality in New York during the late 1940s.

A reverse‑chronological portrait of Arnold Hawley, a black, gay poet whose life and work unfold against 1950s New York, revealing the isolation of creative ambition and the bittersweet triumphs of an outsider artist.

Mitchell, in his early forties, receives a dream job offer in New York but feels the absence of love. Meanwhile, Raheim, newly sober, seeks a starring role that could launch his acting career.

In sweltering Harlem, detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones navigate two intertwined investigations amid turmoil on the streets of New York.