Literature

Author interviews, guides to the best LGBT Literature, Gay and Lesbian Novels and Memoirs and more!

lgbt book reviews

‘All Us Saints’ Boldly Slashes Away at the Trans Killer Trope

All Us Saints is hardly the first work to critique and analyze the prolific horror trope of the transgender slasher…

Nic Anstett

Jun 6, 2026

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins by Juniper Fitzgerald

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Juniper Fitzgerald’s Queer Memoir-in-Fragments Examines Her Identities as a Sex Worker and Mother

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.

Stef Rubino

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Aug 31, 2022

lgbt book reviews

In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History

What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active…

Stef Rubino

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Aug 30, 2022

lgbt book reviews

Queer Naija Lit: “We Are Flowers” Documents the Beauty and Resilience of Nigeria’s Queer Community

We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu

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Aug 29, 2022

lgbt book reviews

Rather Than a Coming Out Story, “Body Grammar” Is About Queer Characters Coming Into Themselves

Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 26, 2022

A vintage illustration of a bird on a branch against a blue background

book lists

In Verse: Poetry Collections for a Big Life Change

I have never lived anywhere that wasn’t in Pennsylvania. This state is my home, but I’m ready to move on from it.

danijanae

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Aug 25, 2022

A crow against an orange and blue background

literature

Rainbow Reading: Even the Crows Are Queer in This Upcoming Speculative Novella

Catch up on the latest LGBTQ+ literature news in Rainbow Reading.

Yashwina

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Aug 25, 2022

book features

Keah Brown on Her New Picture Book and the Importance of Disability Representation for Children

“I was excited to talk about rest for children, to talk about how even rest can be an adventure.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Aug 24, 2022

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

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“All This Could Be Different” Review: A Novel So Good I Dreaded Finishing It

Whether she’s writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ sentences seduce and swathe.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 23, 2022