"[2] Topside Press’s list included novels such as Nevada by Imogen Binnie, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for transgender literature and was rereleased by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2022, and A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett, which won a Lambda Literary Award.
Topside Press was founded by Tom Léger, Riley Macleod, Julie Blair, and Red Durkin after they were turned away by larger publishing companies that claimed that the market for trans literature was too limited.
[5] The Collection went on to win a Lambda Literary Award and has become a teaching text in college courses dealing with trans literature.
"[8] In the summer of 2016, Topside hosted its inaugural Trans Women’s Writing Workshop, taught by writer and activist Sarah Schulman and Plett, at Brooklyn College.
Similar to the Bechdel test the owners of Topside came up with a set of criteria to establish if a story was transgender or just featured a trans character.