Literature

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

New Novel ‘Vernal Thaw’ Explores Toxic Queer Monogamy

While most texts about polyamory explore what happens when a relationship opens up, Vernal Thaw reverses this trope: the novel…

Lauren Herold

8 Hours

Photo 1: Time Regime by Jhani Randhawa. Photo 2: The author Jhani Randhawa, a gender non-specific person with light brown skin wearing a black net on their head

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A Conversation With Jhani Randhawa About Their Poetry Collection “Time Regime”

In this creative nonfiction+artist interview chimera, Almah LaVon Rice reviews the poetry collection Time Regime and wanders its estuaries with author Jhani Randhawa.

Almah LaVon Rice

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Mar 31, 2022

An illustration showing a shapeless yellow and pink cloud in the background with a pair of lips in an expression of agony and hands in a similar expression beside them.

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Making it Work: A Queer Author Screams into the Wind

I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.

Nyri A. Bakkalian

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Mar 28, 2022

The book cover of Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho

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Jean Chen Ho on “Fiona and Jane,” the Eros of Friendship, and Finding Your Fiction Community

“When I was writing these women and their mothers, I wanted to show that these are individuals.”

Em Win

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Mar 28, 2022

A stack of books with stars bursting out of it

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Rainbow Reading: It’s Queer Lit Awards Season!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya guest hosts Rainbow Reading this week, highlighting new LGBTQ+ book releases, events, book sales, and more!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 24, 2022

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22 Fictional Books From Movies and TV Shows We Would Really Like to Actually Read

Anybody got a copy of “Station Eleven” or um, “The Wrong Side of the Bed; Corruption, Cover-Ups and a Crisis of Culture on America’s #1 Morning Show”?

Riese

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Mar 23, 2022

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“My Volcano” Is an Abnormal, Bizarre, Exhilarating Novel About a Volcano Suddenly Emerging in Central Park

My Volcano is an abnormal, bizarre, sometimes frustratingly opaque novel — but it’s also one of the most exhilarating ones I’ve read in years.

Abbie Jones

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Mar 22, 2022

Mature businesswoman reading a book while travelling in commuter train

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Things I Read That I Loved #325: Like a Hippie Van Collided With a Paint Factory

Topics include TED Talks, murder, Morrissey, a horrific party limousine crash, infertility, the Atlanta Spa Shootings, Super Bowl Halftime Shows, a legendary Massachusetts roadside restaurant and more.

Riese

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Mar 18, 2022