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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for January 2026

New year, new queer books!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Sapphic Basketball Romance “How You Get the Girl” Is a Slam Dunk

Imagine you are coaching a girl’s basketball team and the retired WNBA player you used to crush on shows up as the foster parent of one of your team members…

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Feb 15, 2024

The 'Godzilla Valentine's Day Special' #1 cover art, by Dani Pendergast and M. Smith, is in shades of black, blue, and blush pink. In one cover a sapphic couple make heart eyes with each other while Godzilla is in the background. In the second cover a brunette femme has heart shaped sunglasses and we can see Godzilla in the reflection.

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The Godzilla Valentine’s Day Comic Book Special Is a Sweet Sapphic Story of Love and Compromise

Written by trans lesbian comic book writer Zoe Tunnell, the Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special tells the story of Piper, a queer woman who decides to become a kaiju researcher after…

Latonya Pennington

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Feb 14, 2024

Be Gay Do Crime collection: cut out letters like from a ransom note spell out be gay do crime pulled from the IG announcement

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Dzanc Books Announces “Be Gay, Do Crime” A Short Fiction Collection Featuring Your Queer Faves

This anthology of stories exploring chaotic queer characters breaking the law includes work from Priya Guns, Sam Cohen, our very own Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, and more!

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Feb 13, 2024

Portrait of a Body book cover times three

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Julie Delporte Wanted To Be a Lesbian Even Before She Was Sexually Attracted to Women

At 35, Delporte’s acceptance of her sexuality serves as a catalyst that helps her understand her relationships, her interests, her experiences with boys and young men as a young woman,…

Stef Rubino

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Feb 9, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going to Disneyworld but not giving up your data, the reborn doll community, the Iron Claw,…

Riese

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Feb 9, 2024

Masculinity in Transition by K Allison Hammer

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K. Allison Hammer Imagines the Queer and Trans Possibilities of Masculinity

Rather than focus on individual, exceptional figures of toxic masculinity, Hammer wanted to explore masculinity as a cultural form that people of all genders can embody.

Lauren Herold

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Feb 8, 2024

Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester

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Documenting and Honoring Queer History Requires Imagination

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories, a new book by cultural historian Diarmuid Hester, shows us what is possible when we consider space in this way.

Stef Rubino

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Feb 7, 2024