Results for: gay marriage
-
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!
-
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.
-
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.
-
How To Fight Back Against Book Bans
However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.
-
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.
-
Rainbow Reading: Happy “Our Wives Under The Sea” Week to All Who Celebrate
After another banger week for books coverage on Autostraddle, catch up on all the latest happenings in the queer lit world.
-
Lamya H on Queer Muslim Community and Leslie Feinberg’s Influence on Their Memoir
“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”
-
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.
-
Things I Read That I Love #83: Sometimes I Think, This Is Really Chloë-ish
Topics include Cosby sweaters, depression, The Chive, Chloë Sevigny, Gabby Hoffman, PTSD, murder in San Bernardino County, undocumented immigrant activism and moar!
-
Consider This: Listening to an Audiobook While Doing a Jigsaw Puzzle
I have unlocked a new level of intellectual heaven: listening to an audiobook while doing a jigsaw puzzle.
-
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!
-
10 Books To Read in the Bathtub
The perfect bath time book is right around 200 pages or less.
-
Rainbow Reading: Call That an Elliot Page-turner
This week’s Rainbow Reading features a very special small press spotlight! Dig in!
-
“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.
-
A Queer and Trans Reading of Tammy Wynette
How come so many LGBTQ people worship divas, pop stars, and tragic Hollywood figures? How do LGBTQ readers, viewers, and listeners find queer pleasure in media targeted to the mainstream?
-
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.
-
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.
-
Rainbow Reading: ’Tis the Damn Season Already?
Literally what do you mean that it’s December already?
-
New Historical Romance “Infamous” Reads Like Queer Jane Austen
This is the sapphic Regency coming-of-age book you’ve been waiting for.
-
Kamala’s First Novel Zigzags Is Out Today!
Ultimately, Zigzags was fueled by the nostalgia of all the places I’ve loved and left and missed. There’s a lot of flirting and parties and witty banter, but it’s very much about the necessary and heartbreaking recognition of when it’s time to move on.