Literature

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

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9 Scary Good Queer Books To Read for a Hot Horror Summer

Summer makes for primetime reading for horror fans, despite fall’s claim to fear.

Iyana Jones

Aug 13, 2026

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Lez Liberty Lit: How Do Plague Stories End?

How DO plague stories end? Plus, “non-binary” in Italian, was this one feminist classic actually trash, the Tamagotchi cemetery and more.

Ryan

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Apr 8, 2021

Three repeating images of the cover of We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

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How New Anthology “We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival” Honors Sex Workers’ Truths

We Too maps out the underground ecosystems of sex worker survival and self-determination that are literally the building blocks of a new world order.

Aegor Ray

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Apr 5, 2021

Three repeating images of the cover of Forsythe Harmon's JUSTINE

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Forsyth Harmon’s “Justine” Is a Haunting Book About Intense Teenage Friendship

This tiny book is a quiet horror story in which beauty is a terror and friendship is an undoing of the self. The final line has haunted me long past…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 1, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: A Phantom from the Jump

Not reading anything for a week, an interview with jamie hood, bathroom libraries, a short story collection of Sarahs and more.

Ryan

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Mar 25, 2021

A collage of the 8 book covers of the books included in this list

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M/F Romances Featuring Bi+ Women Whose Queer Identities and Communities are Front and Center

“I am looking for content more than simply a small throw-away line that the woman is bisexual. I would love to see bisexual women for whom their queer identities and…

Casey

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Mar 22, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love #317: One Moment Could Be Ecstatic and The Next Perilous

Topics include reviewing the book review, TikTok aesthetics, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Soho House, private school, “A Teacher” and so much more!

Riese

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Mar 19, 2021

The cover of Melissa Brooder's Milk Fed: An orange background with an abstract pink breast on the front.

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The Audacity of Melissa Broder’s MILK FED

Broder’s coming-of age-tale MILK FED is at turns funny, poignant, and squirm-in-your-seat sexy.

Kate Gorton

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Mar 17, 2021

a sunlit photo portrait of Minnie Bruce Pratt and Leslie Feinberg looking at the camera, juxtaposed with the cover of Minnie Bruce Pratt's book MAGNIFIED

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Labors of Love and Loss: An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt on the Occasion of “Magnified,” Her Latest Poetry Collection

In Magnified, Minnie Bruce Pratt meditates on “the eternal time of death, the short intense time of work, and the focused, magnified time of the intimacy” shared with her beloved,…

Sarah Heying

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Mar 15, 2021