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‘The Queer Bookshelf’ Will Help You Find Your Next Gay Read — Without Algorithms

London-based author Layla McCay has written The Queer Bookshelf to bring us a reader’s perspective on what a queer canon…

Sally

Jun 11, 2026

Slayers Every One of Us by Kristen Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs

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From Wives to Exes to Friends: ‘Slayers, Every One of Us’ Tells the Tale of Two Queer Podcasters and Buffy

The joint memoir tells the emotional tale of Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs fighting to keep their labor of love alive through personal struggles, a global pandemic, and a…

Valerie Anne

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Apr 9, 2025

Straight influencer Tinx next to the cover of her fiction debut Hotter in the Hamptons ghostwritten by Gabrielle Korn

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The Ghostwriting Drama Surrounding Straight Influencer Tinx’s Lesbian Romance Novel, Explained

Many have wondered why straight influencer Tinx wrote lesbian romance novel, Hotter in the Hamptons. But did she even write it?

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Apr 8, 2025

Cinema Her Way Marya E Gates interview: side by side author photo and book cover

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The Greatest Women Filmmakers Are Mad for a Reason

In her gorgeous new book, Cinema Her Way, writer and film critic Marya E. Gates interviews 19 female filmmakers — including Cheryl Dunye, Karyn Kusama, and Isabel Sandoval — about…

Stef Rubino

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Apr 8, 2025

Freakslaw, Somadina, and A/S/L

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for April 2025

April is a stacked month for LGBTQ+ books, so get in here and find out what to add to your TBR stack!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 3, 2025

Cover Story by Celia Laskey

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Sapphic Romance Novel ‘Cover Story’ Brings Us Back to 2005, When It Was Much Harder To Be Out and Famous

What would things have looked like if we got openly queer Kristen Stewart from the beginning of the Twilight franchise?

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Mar 31, 2025

Bob the Drag Queen Harriet Tubman Live in Concert: a photo of Bob next to a photo of the book cover

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Bob the Drag Queen’s New Novel ‘Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert’ Is More Than a Joke

“The truth is people who fight for you to have liberty, they fight for you to be a goofy bitch, too.”

Elyssa Maxx Goodman

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Mar 26, 2025

Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

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With ‘Stag Dance’, Torrey Peters Is Back and Better Than Ever

The laws of masculinity, and the ways in which they restrict and influence gender, infect every story (and novel) included in Torrey Peters’ collection, Stag Dance.

Nic Anstett

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Mar 24, 2025

We Had To Remove This Post. The Very Nice Box. The Default World.

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Queer Books To Read if You’re Already Missing ‘Severance’

Mourning the end of another season of Severance? Well go read these queer books about grief, capitalism, and the horrors of having a job.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 24, 2025

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A Body Made Home by Kai Marshall Green

New Memoir ‘A Body Made Home’ Embraces Black Trans Love, Healing, and Transformation

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Ashley Herring Blake and Get Over it, April Evans

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Best Woman by Rose Dommu and The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

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