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Queer Books Across America: Incredible Lesbian and Queer Novels and Memoirs Set in Every State
Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.
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The History of the Color Purple Kiss
In 1982 Alice Walker wrote a Black queer text so ahead of its time, that 40 years later we’re still fighting to catch up.
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Pop Culture Fix: Maybe This Time We’ll Be Lucky, Maybe This Time “The Color Purple” Will Be Gay
The Color Purple’s gay screenwriter, Marcus Gardley, spoke at a screening about his desire to prioritize Shug and Celie’s romantic love story in the new film. Also: Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” premiere, JoJo Siwa on an old video that’s funny now, Yasmin Finney’s Doctor Who episode and more!
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Will “The Color Purple” Get Black Queerness Right This Time?
Celie and Shug Avery’s queerness is just as essential and powerful as the other themes most commonly discussed in the novel.
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Read These Queer Banned Books Right Now
Read queer banned books. Support their authors. And maybe buy an extra copy or two of these and leave them in a school library near you.
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Monday Roundtable: Our Favorite LGBTQ Novels
It’s truly magical when you can find a novel with lesbian or bisexual or queer characters that speaks to you and tells a damn good story.
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11 Black Experience Movies to Watch on Your Martin Luther King Jr. Day Off
These films are beautiful and poignant — though at times painful and heart-wrenching — testaments to Black Lives and just how much they matter, not just today, but always.
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30 Book Titles That Sound As Gay As “Tipping The Velvet” But Mostly Aren’t
“4. Passionate Vegetarian – Crescent Dragonwagon”
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7 Must-Read Books on Queer History and Identity in the South
The South’s conservative and religious majority has made it nearly impossible to suss out the queers in classic Southern literature and in the history books. That’s why this list exists.
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LGBTQ History Month Starts Now: An Epic Autostraddle Reading List
It’s LGBT History Month, a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, a topic which is near and dear to our hearts because it is definitely NOT near OR dear to the hearts of anybody in charge of public education.
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15 Lesbian(ish) Books Made into Lesbian(ish) Movies to Read This Weekend
Getting snowed in this weekend? Dive into these lesbian books with film adaptations; you’ve got the perfect thing to watch once you’re done.
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See The Fascinating Evolution of Cover Art From 12 Legendary Queer Books
Looking back at a century of cover designs from all over the world for beloved queer books like Tipping the Velvet, Orlando, The Color Purple, Annie on my Mind, Rubyfruit Jungle and more.
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10 Novels & Memoirs By and About Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women
You should celebrate Black History Month by reading all of these books right now.
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100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time
You voted and the results are in – the best 100 queer-lady fiction or memoir books of all time!
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Top Five Tools In My Baby Dyke Survival Kit
“Some days, I really just needed to curl up in a cozy plaid jacket and have all the homo feelings.”
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Read A F*cking eBook: Best Lesbian Titles Under $5
You probably want to read some lesbian and queer books this summer. Here are a few that are under $5.
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How The South Made Me A Queer Feminist
In the rural South, the word “tomboy” is basically a euphemism for “She’s genderqueer, and she may or may not grow out of it. Hell if we know.”
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Top Ten – Lesbian Literature – The Classics
We count down the top ten Lesbian Literature Classics.