Results for: gay marriage
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Kristin Cashore’s “Seasparrow” Continues The Great Graceling Gaying
Like all the Graceling books, Seasparrow allows the woman at its center to be angry, and hurt, and confused, and scared and messy and even downright unlikable sometimes. That’s what makes the series great!
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Documenting and Honoring Queer History Requires Imagination
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories, a new book by cultural historian Diarmuid Hester, shows us what is possible when we consider space in this way.
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Malinda Lo’s New Coming-of-Age Queer Novel “A Scatter of Light” Shines Brilliantly
Lo’s newest offering is beautifully composed, often feeling like a peek into your best friend’s hot (queer) girl summer.
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Li Kotomi’s “Solo Dance” Is Haunted by Death and Literature
Solo Dance has no illusions that in the present day, the implicit and explicit violence of homophobia still leaves lasting scars on young queer people.
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Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature
The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.
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Bi4Bi Romance Thrives in This New Queer Regency-Era Rom-Com
Their romance also encapsulates the protagonist figuring out she’s a top, a journey I always love to see!
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In ‘We Were the Universe’, Grief and Motherhood Are Horny
We Were the Universe eschews the conventional grief novel in its horniness, the conventional motherhood novel in its queerness, and even the conventional sex novel in its emphasis on fantasy over reality.
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“The Family Outing” Is a Vivid Memoir of Neglect, Secrets, and the Power of Family
Over the course of five years, Jessi Hempel came out as a lesbian; her dad then came out as gay, her sister as bisexual, and her brother as trans.
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As Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Ramps Up in My Home State, I Find Myself Returning to This Book
It’s been a rough time to be a queer from Tennessee.
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We Should Engage With LGBTQ History All Damn Year
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture perfectly exemplifies the reasons why it’s so imperative to look back at history with the willingness to be impacted by whatever we learn.
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New Historical Romance “Infamous” Reads Like Queer Jane Austen
This is the sapphic Regency coming-of-age book you’ve been waiting for.
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In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”
Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.
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Queer Naija Lit: “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde Names the Things People Would Rather Look Away From
Welcome to Queer Naija Lit, a new series that analyzes and celebrates queer Nigerian literature. First up: a review of the new novel “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde.
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Glennon Doyle’s “Untamed”: A Gay Love Story About a Grown-Ass Woman Who Does What the F*ck She Wants
“There. She. Is.” Glennon wrote in her new memoir, Untamed, when she recalled the moment Abby Wambach entered her life. I assumed that would be the central conflict of Untamed. And in some ways it is — but not the ways I expected.
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Celia Laskey’s “Under the Rainbow” Is Dark, Redeeming, and Very Very Queer
Both light and heavy, dark and redeeming, this book is sure to be a comfort and resource for many, as we try to bridge the growing gap between “coastal elites” and “flyover states.”
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Jenn Shapland Names What Needs Naming in “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers”
It has taken over 50 years for us to get the full, queer truth about Carson McCullers’s life, and now I know why. We were waiting for Jenn Shapland.
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Mary Lambert Is Brutally Vulnerable in Her New Poetry Book, “Shame Is An Ocean I Swim Across”
Mary Lambert talked to Autostraddle about vulnerability, the impossibility of separating the art from the artist, and her incredible new book of poems.
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Kristen Arnett’s ‘Mostly Dead Things’ Is a Funny, Dark Story of Messy Queer Love (also, Taxidermy)
Mostly Dead Things is the story of what happens to a young woman when her life is torn open and reset in a different pose, and how she deals with herself — and her queerness — as a part of that confusion soup.
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Fill In Your 50s, 60s, and 70s Butch History With This Coloring Book
Why learn about butch lesbian herstory in the 50s, 60s and 70s when you can learn about butch lesbian herstory by looking at babes?
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Read A F-cking Book: SJ Sindu’s “Marriage Of A Thousand Lies”
Lucky’s been walking a thin line. She desperately wants to maintain a relationship with her family, and especially with her mother, but she also aches to live as an out lesbian.