Literature

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

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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

A repeated image three times of the cover of emily m danforth's Plain Bad Heroines

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Curses, Crushes and Celesbians Abound in Emily M. Danforth’s “Plain Bad Heroines”

Plain Bad Heroines is a story so much about storytelling that it feels almost obscene to point it out. “This is story-telling, people!” it seems to shout, in the voice…

Lindsay Lee Wallace

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Nov 23, 2020

two people with long hair about to kiss while one holds a book

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Lez Liberty Lit: A Cute Panopticon

Why literature is so self-aware, living like an artist, caring for others without destroying yourself and more.

Ryan Yates

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Nov 19, 2020

A woman wearing rollers and a red polka dot dress reclines on a bed with a cigarette, reading a copy of ODD GIRL OUT intently

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No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction

A look into the history — and present! — of mid-century lesbian pulp fiction.

Chloe Maveal

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Nov 18, 2020

girl in hoodie on the beach reading a thing on her phone

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Things I Read That I Love #314: There Were Many Days In Which Several People Were Typing

Topics include Far Right literature, the Spelling Bee game, influencers traveling during COVID, the pandemic DIY boom, the Folgers Incest Ad, Lean Cuisine, recovery, faking illness on GoFundMe and truly…

Riese

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Nov 13, 2020

Two women are lounging in a cozy indoor space covered in blanket and pillows with a warm yellow light as if by a flashlight at night, one person reading from their phone screen and one hunched over reading from a hardback book

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Lez Liberty Lit: What’s Up With Reading Lists

What is Afrofuturism, readings on climate and clean energy transition, a new anthology of radical trans poetics and more.

Ryan Yates

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Nov 5, 2020

A black-and-white two fold collage. On the left is a close up photo of Jehan, the writer. On the right is a similarly close up photo of Audre Lorde.

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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: October’s Dead Is Behind Us

To be Black in this world is to be intimate with a kind of living death. It’s an intimacy no one craves, and yet Black people know better than most…

Jehan

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Oct 29, 2020

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Eight Trans-Inclusive Fantasy Books for Harry Potter Fans

Eight trans-inclusive fantasy books for the Harry Potter fans , from all-gender Quidditch to trans boys summoning ghosts, there’s a book here for every Potterhead!

Casey

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Oct 28, 2020

a graphic of the cover of mcsweeney's queer fiction issue, and a photo of the author patti yumi cottrell. the cover features tendrils, foliage and plants with a hand at the bottom.

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What Is Queer Fiction? An Interview with Patrick Cottrell

The first time I encountered a book with queer characters must have been James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. At the time I remember feeling afraid of its intensity. Now it’s one…

Kamala Puligandla

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Oct 28, 2020