Cleis Press: 438 books

Sophie Newton is determined to prove herself to her father, who insists she could never run a successful business. She throws herself into her beachside taco stand, The Sandy Tortilla*,* and makes it her primary goal to show him that he’s wrong, one burrito at a time. When she loses her summer...

Tripp Thurgood has everything he needs: a comfortable home he shares with his cousin, Jared, a great job where he owns his own fishing boat and can get out on the water whenever he wants, and a failed romantic history he’s ready to move past. Enter Hilary Finnegan, the mysterious fishmonger...

“What do porn stars find erotic?” is a question that has baffled the minds of adult film fans for decades. Thanks to adult film star and best-selling author of Insatiable and Dirty Thirty, Asa Akira, we finally get our answer—everything! No one knows the world of sex and eroticism better...

"Zaftig, in Yiddish, means juicy. It also means voluptuous, plump, and round in a deliciously sensuous sort of way," writes Hanne Blank. "Used to refer to people's bodies, it suggests opulence and abundance, a sort of unconventional beauty built on heft and curves and softness. Zaftig...

Giving up control to a lover and bending to his every erotic whim is the ultimate ecstasy for women who crave kink. The libidinous tales in Penthouse Variations on Submission explore the debauched desires of ladies who indulge their carnal appetites and reveal every delicious detail of their amorous...

Penthouse Variations on Kink delves deep into the decadent desires of bondage lovers. This collection of unrestrained erotica is filled with tales of couple-friendly kink that spill the secrets of men and women who love to be tied, teased, and pleased. These amorous adventurers find that a coil of...

Go beyond the locker room in this playful, imaginative, and lushly written collection of gay Asian erotica, with settings as diverse as a bamboo grove in China and a sleepy crank caller's Los Angeles apartment. Best Gay Asian Erotica brings together stories of lust and adventure—each with a queer Asian man as the focus of desire.

If the vampire is both scary and seductive, the lesbian vampire, who lives at the farthest fringes of society, is doubly so. The appeal of this quintessential bad girl is unmistakable and irresistible: the hypnotic eyes, fetishy garb and make-up, lips that can kiss or open to reveal gleaming fangs...

A stinging satire of tell-all showbiz memoirs starring a self-deluded gay icon who has managed to ride every pop culture trend of the last forty years. Marc LeJeune has had a remarkable career in the entertainment business. Despite the carping of critics, cruel twists of fate, and the treachery...

The swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes of this 1961 lesbian pulp novel experience the guilt, thrills, and wonder of forbidden love. “She knew why they danced with such gay desperation.” A budding butch in the Brylcreem era, Lorraine “Lon” Harris fantasizes about a South...

Love, passion and sex…it’s all here in Darker Edge of Desire. Gothic literature has always possessed a dark attraction ripe with the promise of the forbidden and the sensual. In Darker Edge of Desire, Mitzi Szereto takes the sexualized Gothic and ratchets it up a few notches into the danger...

Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashion. Christine Fairbrother is a high-powered barrister, the scourge of the divorce courts. Christine has ambitions to become a QC—to "take silk"—after her next big case. Her talented daughter, Isabelle Cisse, is a design...

2002 Lambda Literary Award Winner Twenty-three Latino parents speak about their relationships with their lesbian and gay children, with frankness, humor, and love. A Puerto Rican mother praises and supports her son, a respected police officer. An Argentinian mother attends Gay Pride with two...

Where can a middle-aged, Persian-American genderqueer dyke find love these days? Online dating, of course! "Only butch dykes need apply" Behrouz writes, eager to swap quiet evenings at home with a smoking jacket, a cat, and a Sunday afternoon's worth of well-used sex toys for a real relationship....