Literature

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

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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

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69 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Winter 2020 and 2021

I believe we are in living in a truly incredible time for queer and feminist books. For proof, I offer you this majestic — if I do say so myself…

Casey

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Dec 30, 2020

a collage of book covers: Freedom is Constant Struggle by Angela Davis; Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis; Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis; Just Us by Claudia Rankine; Citizen by Claudia Rankine; Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown; Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang; ALLIES from The Boston Review; Experiments in Joy by Gabrielle Civil; Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

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Reading List for the Revolution: Angela Davis & Radical Inspiration for 2021

What if we all committed to a radical reading list for 2021? What would we learn? And with this, what could we do? This collection of books will set you…

Sarah Yanni

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Dec 29, 2020

A Black and White collage of the author with Audre Lorde, side by side on a diagonal.

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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: December’s Prologue

Like so many others, I’ve been chirping about the end of 2020, as if the transition from one year to the next will somehow magically suture our open wounds.

Jehan

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Dec 28, 2020

the cover of Kamala's novel, Zigzags. the cover is a graphic that features two queer women lounging beside Lake Michigan as the sun sets into the purple water. in the right upper corner is the A+ symbol with a 7 highlighted for the 13 days of A+

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A Scene & Notes From Kamala’s Novel Zigzags

I’m sharing part of a scene from the book that captures the essence of why I love to write fiction: so I can write the fantasy dates with girls I…

Kamala Puligandla

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Dec 19, 2020

a Black person with long hair reading in bed

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Lez Liberty Lit: High Femme Camp Antics

It’s best books season, the addiction-memoir genre has been dominated by men, somehow it will be March again in just three months, and yes — that piece about High Femme…

Ryan

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Dec 17, 2020

a collaged image with the cover of Best Lesbian Erotica Vol 5, featuring two women of color holding each other, and four photos of writers in the book, along with one photo of tattoo of a woman blindfolded and her wrists tied above her head.

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Meet The Writers Of Best Lesbian Erotica Vol. 5

Six contributors to Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 5 tell us about how they think about erotica as queer writers. The book came out on Dec 8, so can get your…

Kamala Puligandla

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Dec 11, 2020

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67 of the Best Queer Books of 2020

2020 was terrible in every way except for queer books. There were so many amazing queer books published this year! Here are 67 of the best of them.

Casey

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Dec 11, 2020

Text reads: "Getting It: A Guide to Hot, Healthy Hookups and Shame-Free Sex"

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Allison Moon’s “Getting It” Is the Casual Sex Guide You Didn’t Know You Needed

Allison Moon’s Getting It: A Guide to Hot, Healthy Hookups and Shame-Free Sex is about more than scissoring strangers — it’s about cultivating self-awareness and sexual self-esteem. Hookup culture might…

Ro White

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Dec 9, 2020