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

Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey Want To Read Books and Eat Snacks With You

We talked to Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig about Allstora’s PANTS Pod book club and its mission to uplift queer authors, connect with pod listeners and read some really good…

Riese

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Dec 20, 2024

book lists

The Best Queer Books of 2024

This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.

Casey

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Dec 18, 2024

Good Girl by Aria Aber, Voice Like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson and The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn

book lists

48 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out December 2024 and January 2025

The next couple months are bringing lots of new queer books to shelves, but sapphic Romantasy in particular is booming this winter.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Dec 10, 2024

book lists

10 Books That Celebrate Trans Joy

From trans memoirs that revel in the beauty of transition to sci-fi novels, manga, and quiet literary dramas that give us a reason to be proud, these books remind us…

Willow Heath

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Dec 5, 2024

book features

20 Dorothy Allison Quotes I Think About All The Time

“Two or three things I know, but this is the one I am not supposed to talk about, how it comes together — sex and violence, love and hatred.”

Riese

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Nov 16, 2024

book features

Dorothy Allison, Lesbian and Feminist Writer and Activist, Has Died. We Must Keep Learning From Her Life’s Work and ‘Remake the World’

Dorothy Allison died at the age of 75 from cancer earlier this week. Some of my favorite teachers in the world are people I’ve never shared a classroom with, and…

Stef Rubino

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Nov 9, 2024

book features

Things I Read That I Love #339: Nerd Clusters, Love Is Blind, Competitive Cheerleading, the Free Returns Industry and More

Topics include “border theater” in Texas, the rise of Nerds Clusters, the WNBA, regional McDonalds’ cuisine, behind the scenes at Love is Blind, how the Fentanyl crisis is harming teens,…

Riese

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Nov 1, 2024