Literature

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

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Reality TV, Shakespearean Shenanigans, and Messy Queers Collide in ‘Puck’

It felt good to have some of my conceptions and ideas about queer characters challenged and maybe even changed.

Christina Tucker

20 Minutes

The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan

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YA Favorite Jennifer Dugan’s Queer Thriller Debut Is a Lesson in Trauma

The Last Girls Standing gave me big Yellowjackets vibes.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Aug 23, 2023

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Jenn Shapland’s “Thin Skin” Will Make You Believe Another Life Is Possible

Shapland never purports to have all of the answers here, and why would she?

Stef Rubino

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Aug 17, 2023

book features

EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life

In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.

Jenn Shapland

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Aug 15, 2023

An illustration of two women's soccer players facing each other in their purple uniforms on the cover of Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute

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Cleat Cute’s Sapphic Soccer Romance Will Fill the World Cup-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

It can’t be good for your body to cut off lesbian soccer drama cold turkey.

Heather Hogan

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Aug 14, 2023

The following books: Outwrite, Some of Us Did Not Die, How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, and Body Work

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9 LGBTQ+ Books Every Queer Writer Should Read

I’ve been thinking a lot about the queering of craft.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 6, 2023

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Things I Read That I Love #332: Massage Parlors, Daily Harvest, Climbing, Branson, Britney and More

Topics include the late shift at a Toronto massage parlor, Baptist Vegas, the New Ken circa 2017 by Caity Weaver, Buy Nothing, Daily Harvest, a missing girl in the Ozarks,…

Riese

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Aug 4, 2023

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality by Ela Przybylo

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The Erotics of Asexuality

For Ela Przybylo, the concept of “asexual erotics” emphasizes non-sexual intimacy and ways of relating to one another.

Lauren Herold

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Aug 2, 2023

Why Tammy Wynette Matters by Steacy Easton

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A Queer and Trans Reading of Tammy Wynette

How come so many LGBTQ people worship divas, pop stars, and tragic Hollywood figures? How do LGBTQ readers, viewers, and listeners find queer pleasure in media targeted to the mainstream?

Lauren Herold

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Jul 21, 2023