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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2026

Great sci-fi and hybrid nonfiction are coming your way this month. Plus a whole lot more.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

May 6, 2026

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Māhealani Madden, Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns, If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar, The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, Ask the Brindles by No'u Revilla, She Is a Haunting by Trang Tranh Tran, The Truth About Me by A. Revathi, and How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

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Quiz: Which Queer Book Should You Read To Close Out AAPI Month?

Please enjoy a captivating queer read by an AAPI author as we move into the season of leisurely reading by the pool and generally being gay.

Em Win

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May 28, 2023

the cover of the DapperQ coffee table book, repeated three times over. The cover includes portraits of eight different queer people posing in gorgeous and unique outfits. On a black banner background in the center, white texts reads: DapperQ Style, Ungendering Fashion

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In “dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion,” Queer Style Is Centered and Celebrated

Our bodies deserve exuberant fabrics and innovative design and can highlight beautiful parts of what society typically erases.

dapperq

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May 23, 2023

Tegan and Sara, as drawn by Tillie Walden, on the cover of their new graphic novel, Junior High

lgbt book reviews

Tegan and Sara’s “Junior High” Brings Their Origin Story to a Graphic Novel

Queer youth need to see a hero’s journey from queer icons who’ve lived it! And they need to be able to relate to it, not to write it off as…

Heather Hogan

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May 22, 2023

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Rainbow Reading: A New Entry Into the Growing Body of Powerful Queer Florida Lit

Also, two words for you: DYKE WESTERN.

Yashwina

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May 18, 2023

book lists

Required Reading for Jupiter in Taurus

You have a year to complete this assignment, and there will be no test.

Corina Dross

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May 17, 2023

Roxane Gay, Carrie Brownstein, Roberta Colindrez, and Jane Lynch

book features

Roxane Gay, Carrie Brownstein, Roberta Colindrez, Jane Lynch To Star in Audible Adaptation of Dykes To Watch Out For

With a killer voiceover cast and a creative team with strong theater cred, the Audible version of Dykes to Watch Out For looks hot.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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May 16, 2023

lgbt book reviews

“Dykette” Has Plenty of High Femme Camp Antics

The novel is thought-provoking even in its flaws.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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May 16, 2023

Human Sacrifices by María Fernanda Ampuero

lgbt book reviews

“Human Sacrifices” Is a Latine and Feminist Gothic Must-Read

Gothic is the instrument by which Latine authors have historically been able to explore coloniality, migration, violence, and other horrors of Latin American society.

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May 15, 2023

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2026

Quiz: Which Queer Book Should You Read To Close Out AAPI Month?

In “dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion,” Queer Style Is Centered and Celebrated

Tegan and Sara’s “Junior High” Brings Their Origin Story to a Graphic Novel

Rainbow Reading: A New Entry Into the Growing Body of Powerful Queer Florida Lit

Required Reading for Jupiter in Taurus

Roxane Gay, Carrie Brownstein, Roberta Colindrez, Jane Lynch To Star in Audible Adaptation of Dykes To Watch Out For

“Dykette” Has Plenty of High Femme Camp Antics

“Human Sacrifices” Is a Latine and Feminist Gothic Must-Read

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20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

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New Novel ‘Vernal Thaw’ Explores Toxic Queer Monogamy

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