Controversial Books for GGFLibrary

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.398 3.23 God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships by Matthew Vines
1.344 3.38 Once & Future by Cory McCarthy
1.217 3.79 Not a Day Goes By: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
1.213 3.37 Daughters of a Coral Dawn by Katherine V. Forrest
1.181 3.76 Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill [1999 film] by Lawrence Jordan
1.178 3.96 And This Too Shall Pass: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
1.176 3.47 The Female Man by Joanna Russ
1.158 3.57 The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley
1.145 3.43 Ship It by Britta Lundin
1.144 4.03 The Blind Side [2009 film] by John Lee Hancock
1.139 3.67 The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World by Alan Downs
1.134 3.67 Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter
1.133 3.16 Unnatural by Michael Griffo
1.123 3.93 Invisible Life: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
1.116 3.44 Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis
1.115 2.85 At Risk by Patricia Cornwell
1.113 3.91 As Good as It Gets [1997 film] by James L. Brooks
1.105 3.68 Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
1.104 3.09 The Man of the House by Stephen McCauley
1.102 3.92 Brokeback Mountain [2005 film] by Ang Lee
1.099 3.57 This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
1.094 3.54 Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
1.090 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.090 3.43 Glamourpuss by Christian McLaughlin
1.090 3.62 Curious Wine by Katherine V. Forrest
1.085 3.60 Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
1.084 3.86 What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir by E. Lynn Harris
1.078 3.65 Odd One Out by Nic Stone
1.078 3.84 Untamed by Glennon Doyle
1.077 3.49 The Best Little Boy in the World by John Reid
1.076 3.48 An Emergence of Green by Katherine V. Forrest
1.076 3.60 Bingo by Rita Mae Brown
1.071 3.91 The Hours [2002 film] by Stephen Daldry
1.067 3.53 The Devil Wears Prada [2006 film] by David Frankel
1.063 3.57 Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
1.061 3.71 The Music Room: A Novel by Dennis McFarland
1.057 3.70 Lust & Wonder: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
1.055 4.03 Just As I Am by E. Lynn Harris
1.054 3.58 Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
1.053 2.74 The Front by Patricia Cornwell
1.053 4.00 I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore by Ethan Mordden
1.051 3.61 A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
1.051 3.61 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
1.040 3.41 When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo by Jo Maeder
1.036 3.44 The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Diana McLellan
1.033 3.90 Abide With Me: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
1.032 3.65 Queer in America Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power by Michelangelo Signorile
1.030 3.24 Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
1.029 3.46 Me by Ricky Martin
1.027 3.70 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
1.025 3.58 Camere separate by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
1.025 3.88 My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
1.022 3.36 Seriously...I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
1.020 3.46 The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
1.017 3.81 The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran
1.015 3.65 The Fancy Dancer by Patricia Nell Warren
1.012 3.65 Freak Show by James St. James
1.010 3.80 Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
1.009 3.88 Society's Child: My Autobiography by Janis Ian
1.008 3.87 More Happy than Not by Adam Silvera
1.003 3.67 Less by Andrew Sean Greer
0.995 3.77 We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra
0.994 4.09 The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon: A Novel by Tom Spanbauer
0.992 3.99 Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
0.991 3.52 Happy Endings Are All Alike by Sandra Scoppettone
0.990 3.48 Nights in Aruba by Andrew Holleran
0.990 3.77 Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
0.990 3.68 Honey Girl: A Novel by Morgan Rogers
0.989 4.18 It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
0.988 3.71 Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook
0.986 3.49 It's Not Like It's a Secret by Misa Sugiura
0.985 4.01 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
0.984 3.97 History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
0.983 3.45 Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
0.979 3.77 Hero by Perry Moore
0.973 3.72 City of Night by John Rechy
0.972 3.92 When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
0.971 3.89 Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories by Patrick Merla
0.970 3.94 Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. by Jonathan Ned Katz
0.970 3.51 Pages for You: A Novel by Sylvia Brownrigg
0.969 3.54 Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
0.967 3.68 Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
0.964 3.56 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
0.964 3.65 Jazz by Toni Morrison
0.964 3.45 Getting It by Alex Sanchez
0.962 3.41 Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
0.962 3.62 Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction by Nicola Griffith
0.962 3.79 The God Box by Alex Sanchez
0.961 3.85 Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.961 3.58 Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
0.959 4.01 Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman
0.959 3.65 While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
0.957 3.71 Faggots by Larry Kramer
0.957 3.64 Martin and John by Dale Peck
0.956 4.06 I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
0.956 3.49 Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley
0.956 3.47 Anything Could Happen by Will Walton
0.954 3.64 The Lord Won't Mind by Gordon Merrick
0.954 3.83 Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens
0.951 3.54 Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men by Peter Cashorali
0.951 3.66 Hold Me Closer: the Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan
0.950 3.54 Fag Hag by Robert Rodi
0.950 3.76 Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green
0.949 3.24 True Enough by Stephen McCauley
0.949 3.72 Harlan's Race by Patricia Nell Warren
0.949 3.54 Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
0.949 3.38 This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
0.948 3.61 The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy
0.940 3.68 Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
0.940 4.16 Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster
0.940 3.98 A Love of My Own by E. Lynn Harris
0.936 3.64 If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
0.935 3.54 River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
0.933 3.87 Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
0.932 3.75 Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
0.931 3.45 Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin
0.929 3.71 The Lost Language of Cranes: A Novel by David Leavitt
0.928 3.93 The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
0.928 3.67 Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
0.927 3.97 The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
0.927 3.94 Trash by Dorothy Allison
0.926 3.25 Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
0.925 3.37 Equal Affections by David Leavitt
0.925 4.16 Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
0.925 3.67 Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
0.925 3.35 Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man by Chaz Bono
0.923 3.54 Strachey's Folly by Richard Stevenson
0.923 3.66 The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
0.921 4.14 Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson
0.920 4.10 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.920 4.33 It's Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr
0.918 3.60 Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
0.915 3.98 Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
0.915 3.94 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
0.915 4.06 The Perks of Being a Wallflower [2012 film] by Stephen Chbosky
0.915 3.63 Virtually Normal by Andrew Sullivan
0.914 3.41 The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
0.914 3.87 Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
0.912 3.92 The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
0.908 3.80 Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
0.907 3.53 Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition by Katie Rain Hill
0.906 4.03 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
0.906 3.62 Memorial by Bryan Washington
0.906 3.56 Gertrude and Alice by Diana Souhami
0.904 3.72 Affinity by Sarah Waters
0.902 3.24 Hello Darling, Are You Working? by Rupert Everett
0.901 3.83 Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
0.901 3.42 Handyman by Claire Thompson
0.900 3.95 The Wit & Wisdom of Oscar Wilde by Ralph Keyes
0.899 3.81 Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
0.898 3.69 Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye
0.898 4.28 Love is Love by Marc Andreyko
0.897 3.68 Release by Patrick Ness
0.895 2.96 Two Gentlemen Sharing by William Corlett
0.895 3.90 Bettyville: A Memoir by George Hodgman
0.894 3.86 Binge by Tyler Oakley
0.894 4.14 Another Country by James Baldwin
0.894 4.06 Four Weddings and a Funeral [1994 film] by Mike Newell
0.894 3.91 Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
0.893 3.69 The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
0.892 4.04 If This World Were Mine: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
0.892 3.90 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
0.891 3.97 If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
0.890 3.78 Babycakes by Armistead Maupin
0.888 4.29 Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall
0.887 3.55 Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon
0.887 3.36 Flight Dreams by Michael Craft
0.886 3.96 Tin Man by Sarah Winman
0.885 3.81 Third Man Out by Richard Stevenson
0.883 3.26 Madonna by Andrew Morton
0.882 3.71 Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman
0.882 3.76 What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
0.880 3.61 The Beverly Malibu by Katherine V. Forrest
0.879 3.49 One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva
0.879 3.86 Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship by Thomas Moore
0.878 3.96 Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
0.878 4.08 All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
0.877 4.13 Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
0.876 4.14 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
0.875 3.81 Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
0.873 4.01 The Warrior's Path by Catherine M. Wilson
0.872 4.18 Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
0.872 3.65 Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company by James R. Mellow
0.872 4.01 The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
0.871 3.94 Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by ND Stevenson
0.871 3.88 I Say a Little Prayer: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
0.870 4.14 Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
0.869 4.34 Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Parts 1 & 2 by Tony Kushner
0.869 3.79 Tribe by R. D. Zimmerman
0.868 3.73 Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
0.867 3.98 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
0.862 3.75 A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing by Reynolds Price
0.862 3.40 Murder at the Nightwood Bar by Katherine V. Forrest
0.861 3.68 Night Sky Mine by Melissa Scott
0.860 3.69 What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli
0.860 3.93 Stonewall by Martin Bauml Duberman
0.859 4.27 Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
0.859 3.54 Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley
0.857 3.76 How Town by Michael Nava
0.857 3.92 Aimée & Jaguar by Erica Fischer
0.856 3.90 The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefcourt
0.855 4.16 The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
0.855 4.00 To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction by Joanna Russ
0.853 4.01 At Seventy: A Journal by May Sarton
0.851 4.17 Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger
0.850 4.17 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
0.849 3.99 Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
0.846 3.50 Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
0.846 3.92 More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.845 4.27 Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
0.844 4.06 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
0.843 3.71 Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand
0.842 4.43 Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
0.841 3.79 Sure of You by Armistead Maupin
0.840 3.95 On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
0.839 4.07 Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
0.838 3.55 Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan
0.837 3.81 Significant Others by Armistead Maupin
0.836 3.65 So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez
0.836 3.64 Love, Ellen by Betty DeGeneres
0.835 3.94 Drama: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier
0.835 3.48 Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
0.835 3.94 Dear Rachel Maddow: A Novel by Adrienne Kisner
0.835 2.85 Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez
0.834 3.88 Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
0.834 4.10 Any Way the Wind Blows by E. Lynn Harris
0.833 4.17 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
0.831 3.76 Ice Blues by Richard Stevenson
0.830 3.82 The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson
0.830 4.19 Melissa by Alex Gino
0.828 3.95 Shine by Lauren Myracle
0.828 4.08 Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
0.827 4.07 Runaways [2017] Volume 1: Find Your Way Home by Rainbow Rowell
0.827 3.70 Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach
0.824 3.90 Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
0.821 3.91 Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.820 3.62 Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann
0.820 3.69 Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood
0.819 4.25 Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
0.818 4.09 Back to Barbary Lane by Armistead Maupin
0.817 3.88 Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
0.816 3.38 Kept Boy by Robert Rodi
0.816 3.69 Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Bauml Duberman
0.812 3.81 Skipping towards Gomorrah : The seven deadly sins and the pursuit of happiness in America by Dan Savage
0.811 3.69 None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio
0.809 3.83 Bait by Alex Sanchez
0.809 3.30 Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
0.809 4.03 A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
0.809 3.70 A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl
0.808 3.61 Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
0.807 3.58 The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
0.806 4.23 28 Barbary Lane by Armistead Maupin
0.805 3.98 The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin
0.805 3.91 Blue Is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh
0.802 3.81 Last Summer by Michael Thomas Ford
0.802 3.93 Justice at Risk by John Morgan Wilson
0.799 3.93 Chain of Fools by Richard Stevenson
0.798 4.13 To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
0.797 3.82 Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
0.797 3.82 The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton
0.796 4.26 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
0.796 3.71 Pulp by Robin Talley
0.790 4.17 Sadie by Courtney Summers
0.790 4.26 The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
0.789 3.82 The Little Death by Michael Nava
0.788 4.27 The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
0.788 3.98 She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
0.787 4.14 Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
0.784 3.50 Apparition Alley by Katherine V. Forrest
0.783 4.18 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
0.782 4.20 Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
0.782 4.13 Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
0.781 4.11 Glitterland by Alexis Hall
0.779 3.88 Murder by Tradition by Katherine V. Forrest
0.778 3.38 Amateur City by Katherine V. Forrest
0.775 3.98 Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
0.775 4.16 Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
0.774 4.26 The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
0.771 3.80 Captains Outrageous by Joe R. Lansdale
0.769 3.79 Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
0.766 4.01 Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
0.762 3.88 The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein
0.761 3.96 Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
0.761 4.20 A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni
0.759 3.89 The Hidden Law by Michael Nava
0.759 3.94 It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living by Dan Savage
0.758 4.01 The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell
0.757 3.72 Goldenboy by Michael Nava
0.755 4.18 The Other Boy by M. G. Hennessey
0.755 4.38 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
0.751 4.15 The Mayor of Castro Street : The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
0.750 4.11 Comfort & Joy by Jim Grimsley
0.749 4.08 The Death of Friends by Michael Nava
0.749 3.78 All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell
0.748 3.83 On the Other Hand, Death by Richard Stevenson
0.743 4.12 Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
0.742 3.77 Painted Moon by Karin Kallmaker
0.742 3.86 Puddin' by Julie Murphy
0.742 4.42 The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer
0.742 3.96 Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
0.741 3.75 Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby
0.737 3.85 These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
0.735 3.33 Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
0.733 3.20 What They Did to Princess Paragon by Robert Rodi
0.733 3.98 The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis
0.731 3.71 Death Trick by Richard Stevenson
0.731 3.95 Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
0.730 4.08 The Burning Plain by Michael Nava
0.729 4.23 The Wicked King by Holly Black
0.727 4.41 And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
0.725 4.17 Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
0.720 4.16 King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
0.719 4.23 Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
0.719 3.83 Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
0.715 4.16 Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle
0.713 4.22 The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
0.712 4.06 Probation by Tom Mendicino
0.704 4.26 Rag and Bone by Michael Nava
0.703 4.26 Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
0.703 3.98 Closet by R. D. Zimmerman
0.700 3.51 The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
0.699 4.09 When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
0.685 4.38 Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
0.683 3.62 Tongue Tied by Richard Stevenson
0.680 3.87 A Shock to the System by Richard Stevenson
0.679 3.54 Insignificant Others: A Novel by Stephen McCauley
0.674 4.35 A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle
0.669 4.12 Death by the Riverside by J. M. Redmann
0.668 3.78 The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson
0.667 4.18 Gender Failure by Rae Spoon
0.666 4.24 Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate by Justin Lee
0.657 3.86 Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
0.651 3.79 The Gay Metropolis by Charles Kaiser
0.647 4.25 The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger
0.644 3.66 Boy Toy by Michael Craft
0.644 4.21 Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
0.643 3.88 Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy
0.642 4.17 Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
0.635 4.24 Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
0.611 4.39 Bohemian Rhapsody [2018 film] by Bryan Singer
0.607 4.17 The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
0.582 4.18 Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
0.578 4.57 A Day In the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss
0.559 4.29 Revision of Justice by John Morgan Wilson