Literature

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

book features

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

The books We Do What We Do In The Dark by Michelle Hurt; The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón; Spell Heaven by Toni Mirosevich; You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi; The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi; X by Davey Davis; Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi; and This Time for Me: A Memoir by Alexandra Billings

book lists

80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Spring 2022

The weather is getting warmer and the LGBTQ+ books are only getting hotter! Queer book lovers, get ready we have all your spring blanket reading needs covered.

Casey

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Mar 31, 2022

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

lgbt book reviews

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.

literature

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

lgbt book reviews

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

literature

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

tv lists

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

lgbt book reviews

“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

literature

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