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New Memoir ‘A Body Made Home’ Embraces Black Trans Love, Healing, and Transformation

Kai Marshall Green resists cliche disability recovery narratives and normative tropes of trans storytelling.

Lauren Herold

Mar 5, 2026

Love At First Set by Jennifer Dugan features cartoon women at a gym, one is blonde with her hair up wearing a white tank next to a bench press, and one is a brunette and wearing a dress looking shy

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Rainbow Reading: Lifting Queers, Listen Up! New Sapphic Romance Set in a Gym Is Coming

Plus, an upcoming YA book about a Mexican American nonbinary teen promises love in a taqueria.

Yashwina

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Mar 9, 2023

The following books: Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza, Forever Is Now, Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis, Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby, Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson, The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher, This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham, Body Horror, A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett, and Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

book lists

114 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Spring 2023

New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.

Casey

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Mar 7, 2023

The book matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts

lgbt book reviews

“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors

This book contains, notably, an essay by Michelle Tea that is still ringing in my ears.

Nico

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Mar 3, 2023

book features

Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival

A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language…

Lauren Herold

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Mar 2, 2023

astrology, tarot & witchcraft

“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody

Reading this book was compelling, fluid, and joyous.

danijanae

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Mar 1, 2023

Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns features a rearview mirror with a desi woman's face reflected in it and an air freshener on fire.

lgbt book reviews

“Your Driver Is Waiting” Review: I’m Obsessed With the Swole Bisexual Narrator of This Rip-Roaring Novel

Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Feb 28, 2023

M. Crane is between two images of their book cover. The book cover is a simple plane of blue with a rippling human shadow on the cover and the title text I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF layered on top. M. Crane is smiling. They have long brown hair, tan skin, and are wearing a colorful button up shirt.

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Right Now – A+ Read a Fucking Book Club: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Join us for a Q&A with author M. Crane! Right now! See you there?

Nico

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Feb 27, 2023

Walking with Shadows by Jude Dibia features hands groping a man's bare chest

lgbt book reviews

Queer Naija Lit: 2005’s “Walking With Shadows” Is a Meditation on Shame, Rupture, and Repair

As a child, I wasn’t different because I was gay (that came with teenagehood), I was different because I was autistic.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu

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Feb 27, 2023

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Literature

New Memoir ‘A Body Made Home’ Embraces Black Trans Love, Healing, and Transformation

Rainbow Reading: Lifting Queers, Listen Up! New Sapphic Romance Set in a Gym Is Coming

114 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Spring 2023

“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors

Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival

“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody

“Your Driver Is Waiting” Review: I’m Obsessed With the Swole Bisexual Narrator of This Rip-Roaring Novel

Right Now – A+ Read a Fucking Book Club: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Queer Naija Lit: 2005’s “Walking With Shadows” Is a Meditation on Shame, Rupture, and Repair

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