Literature

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

Things I Read That I Love #346: Bama Rush, Celebrity Memoirs, Laptop Boyfriends, Leaving LA and More

An elite rescue squad in the Great Smokey Mountains, the museum at the Pennhurst Asylum, a liberal journalist gets hired…

Riese

Jan 17, 2026

A composite of the cover of Kristen Arnett's WITH TEETH and a photo of the author posing outdoors next to a bird of paradise plant

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Kristen Arnett on “With Teeth,” Lesbian Motherhood, and Sagittarius Chaos

“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Jun 3, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Counterfactual Realities

How memory works, BOOK IT nostalgia, why pleasure should never be guilty and more.

Ryan Yates

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Jun 3, 2021

literature

Things I Read That I Love #319: Yacht Content, Poolside Content, White Claw Content

Topics include TikTok, Office Space, the actual office, being bipolar, Amazon, the Disgusting Food Museum, Ghost Ship, facial feminization surgery, gymnastics, the childcare industry and so much more!

Riese

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May 21, 2021

Image shows the cover of a book that reads "The Ex-girlfriend of my ex-girlfriend is my girlfriend"

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My Teenage Obsession Gets a Second Life and a Queer Adult Spin

“Had my teen girl self been sure of herself and comfortably queer as I am today, she may not have become so obsessed with advice columns in the first place.”

Kim Wong-Shing

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May 20, 2021

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Spontaneous Touch

Rediscovering spontaneous touch through reading, starting something new, the secret feminist history of the Oxford Dictionary and more.

Ryan Yates

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May 20, 2021

A composite photo of author A.E. Osworth and the cover of their book, WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT.

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“We Are Watching Eliza Bright'”s Sixsterhood Is a Collective Narrator of Queer Possibility: An Interview with A.E. Osworth

When queer voices — especially those of trans people, and Black and brown people — are so frequently ignored or actively silenced, centering a narrator made up of them turned…

Lindsay Lee Wallace

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May 18, 2021

A composite photo of a portrait of author Alison Bechdel and the cover of her new book, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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Talking with Alison Bechdel about Feminist Martial Arts, Lockdown, and Her New Book “The Secret to Superhuman Strength”

“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement.…

Alyssa Favreau

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May 10, 2021

A black and white photo of a pair of hands holding a rosary in a lap.

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Read About the Real-Life Inspiration for “Benedetta” and More with these 5 Books on Queer & Trans Nuns

If you’d like more backstory on the real-life story of Sister Benedetta that inspired this film while you wait for its wide release, or just want more to read about…

Rachel

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May 6, 2021