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The Best Queer Books of 2025

It was, despite the right’s attacks on LGBTQ+ literature, indeed a great year for queer books.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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“Just as You Are” Is the Gayest Rom-Com I’ve Ever Read

Just As You Are is a full-on enemies-to-lovers romance that exudes queerness at every possible turn.

ashni

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Apr 25, 2023

Negative Money by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, The World Keeps ENding, and the Wold Goes On by Franny Choi, and Freedom House by KB Brookins

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8 Poets With New Queer Books To Check Out This National Poetry Month

If I’ve given you one poetry recommendation, I’ve held back from giving 15.

A. Tony Jerome

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Apr 24, 2023

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Rainbow Reading: Give Me All the Queer Paleontology Novels!

Plus, coming out this August, a book that promises “Bridgerton meets Freaky Friday sapphic romcom.”

Yashwina

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Apr 20, 2023

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25 Lines of Poetry I Think About Once a Day

It’s National Poetry Month, so I become a poetry hound, sniffing out new books and revisiting old ones, finding solace, rage, love, and beauty in some of the words crafted…

danijanae

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Apr 18, 2023

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Sexy, Ambitious Novel “Any Other City” Explores Transition and Transformation

I don’t remember ever reading such sexy queer sex.

Abbie Jones

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Apr 18, 2023

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“Sizzle Reel” Doesn’t Let Its Queer Romance Be Messy

I don’t want Twitter and TikTok discourse to dictate how books are written.

Christina Tucker

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Apr 17, 2023

Assisted Living by Sheila Oritz Taylor with a badge on it that says LOST LESBIAN LIT

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Lost Lesbian Lit: Murder! At the Retirement Home

My only positive memory of my grandma was our last, the one time I was with her as myself.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Apr 14, 2023

Brittney Griner and Cherelle Griner attend the 54th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 25, 2023 in Pasadena, California.

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Brittney Griner Is Writing a Memoir About Her Wrongful Russian Imprisonment

Griner’s memoir will talk about her arrest in Moscow, her detention, her trial, her wrongful imprisonment — and the outpouring of support that helped pave the way for her to get…

Heather Hogan

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Apr 11, 2023