Literature

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

lgbt book reviews

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for June 2026

Here at Autostraddle, of course, we celebrate LGBTQ+ books year-round, and that has become an increasingly vital.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

3 Hours

Portrait of a Body book cover times three

lgbt book reviews

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

—

Feb 9, 2024

literature

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

—

Feb 9, 2024

Masculinity in Transition by K Allison Hammer

book features

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

—

Feb 8, 2024

Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester

lgbt book reviews

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

—

Feb 7, 2024

book features

Lamya H on Queer Muslim Community and Leslie Feinberg’s Influence on Their Memoir

“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”

Gen

—

Feb 6, 2024

The following queer comfort reads: Fresh by Margot Wood, Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli, She gets the Girl by Rachel Lippincott and Alyson Derrick, and Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

book lists

11 Queer Romance + YA Comfort Reads I Revisit on Bad Days

When I find myself needing comfort from the atrocities of being an adult, these are the books I usually turn to.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

—

Jan 30, 2024

"Critical Role: Mighty Nein Origins" book cover, featuring lesbian character Beauregard Lionette in a fighting stance, repeated three times over a blue background.

book features

An Exclusive Preview of “Critical Role: Mighty Nein Origins,” Featuring Our Resident Disaster Lesbian, Beauregard Lionett!

Take a look back at Beau’s life before she was the badass monk (pop pop!) we know and love from Critical Role; see what she got up to before she…

The Critical Role Team

—

Jan 29, 2024

lgbt book reviews

New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife

There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious…

Stef Rubino

—

Jan 29, 2024