Literature

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

Things I Read That I Love #346: Bama Rush, Celebrity Memoirs, Laptop Boyfriends, Leaving LA and More

An elite rescue squad in the Great Smokey Mountains, the museum at the Pennhurst Asylum, a liberal journalist gets hired…

Riese

Jan 17, 2026

book features

Maybe Gabrielle Korn Set Her Queer Dystopian Climate Novel ‘The Shutouts’ Too Far in the Future

“I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda.…

Riese

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Feb 17, 2025

lgbt book reviews

There Has Never Been a Better Time To Read About Two Girls Falling in Love at the End of the World

The Last Bookstore on Earth is a YA dystopian novel set in a bookstore and full of sapphic yearning.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Feb 7, 2025

Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez, All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari, and Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

book lists

The Most Anticipated Queer Books for February 2025

Check out our top five picks for the month along with the rest of the LGBTQ book slate for February.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Feb 1, 2025

book features

Read an Excerpt From ‘Broughtupsy’, a Queer Jamaican Diaspora Novel

Chirp of tree frogs floating sonorous, each piercing chirrup rising on the wane of the last. I’m in my childhood home.

Christina Cooke

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Jan 28, 2025

book lists

Queer Books About the Environment for When All You Can Think About Is Climate Crisis

These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jan 20, 2025

Slapping Leather Queer Cowfolx at the Rodeo

lgbt history

A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer

Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.

Lauren Herold

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Jan 9, 2025

Kristen Arnett holding copies of her book Stop Me If You've Heard This One on a Florida bookstore road trip

travel

We Took a Gay Literary Road Trip Through Central Florida, and You Should Too!

As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than…

Kristen Arnett

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Jan 7, 2025