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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

Three images in a row of the pink cover of the book I'm The Girl. It features a blonde girl with dark brows and smeared red lipstick on a pink background.

lgbt book reviews

“I’m the Girl” Is a Harrowing, Complex Story of Abuse That’s Difficult To Read

Courtney Summers’ latest thriller tries to hold our culture accountable for its crimes against teen girls. Does it succeed?

Darcy

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Sep 13, 2022

A woman reads a book on a bench, and stars are bursting from it.

literature

Rainbow Reading: Book Recommendations From Hot People Just Hit Different

It’s a great time to immerse yourself in some LGBTQ+ sci-fi and genre fiction.

Yashwina

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Sep 8, 2022

An image made of two repeating images of the author Sarah Thankam Mathews photo and the cover of her book All This Could Be Different. The author is a South Asian woman with long dark hair wearing a red and black boldly patterned top and orange earrings. She is looking at the viewer. The cover of all this could be different features a painting of a crowded room of a diverse array of people all interacting, drinking, talking, sitting, standing, leaning on each other. It is very colorful.

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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A with Sarah Thankam Mathews

This time, we’re reading All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, a book our Managing Editor Kayla called “so good I dreaded finishing it.”

Nico

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Sep 7, 2022

The "Coven" graphic novel book cover features a witch in a red trench coat holding fire in both of her hands.

lgbt book reviews

Queer Graphic Novel “Coven” Will Fill the Buffy-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

Do you like witches, gays, and found family, and fictional teen angst? Is there a Buffy- or Baby-Sitter’s Club- or Motherland: Fort Salem-shaped hole in your heart? Good news, this…

Heather Hogan

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Sep 6, 2022

The following books: We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds; The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin; Faltas by Cecilia Gentili; Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo; When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar; It Came From the Closet anthology; A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo; The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; A Short History of Queer Women; The Color Pynk by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley; Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales; Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston; Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner; Magodiz by Gabe Calderon; Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam; Love Me Tender; Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell; Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec; Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong; Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; Queer Little Nightmares anthology; Power: The Rise of Black Women in America by Charity C. Elder; When the Angels Left the Old Country; The Long Covid Survival Guide

book lists

103 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Fall 2022

I can guarantee there is something for everyone on this list of fall 2022 queer and feminist books, whether your jam is graphic novel fairy tales, memoirs about queer family,…

Casey

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Sep 6, 2022

Stef Rubino's Middlesex tattoo, featuring the words "other halves" and a person emerging from petals. Also, the cover of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

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“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life

When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.

Stef Rubino

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Sep 4, 2022

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins, The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre by Robin Talley, Forward March by Skye Quinlan, and We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spaulding

book lists

Get in Your Back-to-School Feelings With These 10 Queer YA Books

Back-to-school time is my favorite time of the year now that I’m an adult.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Sep 2, 2022

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

lgbt book reviews

Slow Takes: “Stone Fruit” and Choosing Given Family

I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Sep 1, 2022

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A Body Made Home by Kai Marshall Green

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

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Lauren Herold

Ashley Herring Blake and Get Over it, April Evans

Ashley Herring Blake Loves Writing Messy Queer Characters

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Sa'iyda Shabazz

Amy Spalding - In Her Spotlight

How Amy Spalding Built a Four-Book Sapphic Romance Universe

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Sa'iyda Shabazz

Queers at the Table

What Does ‘Queer Food’ Mean?

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Stef Rubino

Best Woman by Rose Dommu and The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

Rose Dommu and Casey McQuiston on Writing Queer Romance That Fucks With the Formula

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ilana masad BEINGS

Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad’s Stunning New Novel ‘Beings’

Pick An Actual Category, You Strange Genius

Gabrielle Korn

Benedict Nguyễn interview: a photo of Benedict next to the cover for Hot Girls with Balls

Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page

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Drew Burnett Gregory

Rachel and Harrison Browne and their book Let Us Play

The Right Isn’t the Only Side We Need To Fight When It Comes to Trans Sports Inclusion

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Stef Rubino

A close up of Alison Bechdel next to the cover her for new novel Spent

Alison Bechdel Never Thought She’d Be This Successful

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photos from behind the scenes of The L Word, taken by Jennifer Beals

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