Literature

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

book features

What We Can Learn From Lesbian Nuns

A forgotten 1980s bestseller on lesbian nuns is the antidote to dating app burnout and the “cool queer” rat race.

Carolina Flores

Jan 23, 2026

The covers of Hijab Butch Blues, Big Swiss, and All Night Pharmacy against a grey textured background

book lists

Let’s Celebrate Gay Books! Congrats to the 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!

Here are all the Lambda Literary Award finalists that Autostraddle wrote about this year.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 27, 2024

lgbt book reviews

“At Her Service” Is a Sweet Sapphic Romance With Crucial Lesbian Kickball Representation

Amy Spalding’s second book in the “Out in Hollywood” series centers on Max, a wee masc lesbian in Hollywood roped into a self-actualization scheme by her influencer roommate and most…

Riese

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Mar 25, 2024

Florida Man: Poems, Revisited by Tyler Gillespie

lgbt book reviews

This Recently Expanded Poetry Collection Touches on the Ambivalence of Being Queer in Florida

I’m still learning how to be queer in Florida.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 21, 2024

Love and Hot Chicken by Mary Liza Hartong

lgbt book reviews

Two Women Find Love in a Quirky Southern Town in “Love and Hot Chicken”

Slow burn romance in a small Southern town gives this queer novel its heat.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Mar 20, 2024

Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

lgbt book reviews

Judith Butler Elucidates Dangers of Anti-“Gender Ideology” Movement, Doesn’t Sufficiently Answer What To Do About It

Why does Butler spend so much time trying to refute these illogical suppositions in the first place?

Stef Rubino

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Mar 19, 2024

Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake

lgbt book reviews

Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature

The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.

Lauren Herold

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Mar 18, 2024

literature

Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point…

Riese

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Mar 15, 2024

Solidarity by Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor

lgbt book reviews

New Book “Solidarity” Is Necessary Read, Even if It’s Difficult To Apply to All Liberation Movements

As with most nonfiction books about political topics, I finished Solidarity with more questions than answers about how to integrate its concepts into my day-to-day life.

Abbie Jones

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Mar 12, 2024