Literature

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

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What We Can Learn From Lesbian Nuns

A forgotten 1980s bestseller on lesbian nuns is the antidote to dating app burnout and the “cool queer” rat race.

Carolina Flores

4 Hours

A collage of Jehan, the author of the piece, taking a selfie in the mirror placed along side Audre Lorde serving attitude in the face while having her photo taken on a New York City street.

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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: September’s Afterimages

I am safe nowhere, the Black women in my family of origin and family of choice are safe nowhere. It’s a fact we’ve known but one that feels all the…

Jehan

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Sep 28, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #313: In A “Peeking Around The Dinner Party Host’s House On Your Way To The Bathroom” Kind of Way

Topics include Black voters, a bad reality TV show, murder, Judith Butler, how we quarantine, the tyranny of chairs, TikTok, Bath & Body Works, the Eco-Yogi slumlords of Brooklyn, Emily…

Riese

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Sep 25, 2020

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Talking with Shani Mootoo on the True Story That Became Dark Lesbian Novel “Polar Vortex”

Shani Mootoo is one of the towering lesbian novelists of our time. In her newest novel, Polar Vortex, Mootoo winds the interior lives of its three central characters like a…

Julie R Enszer

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Sep 24, 2020

a Black woman reading a book on top of the covers of a bed

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Lez Liberty Lit: Reclaiming Genderqueer Monstrousness

Roxane Gay on Audre Lorde, Emily Hashimoto on writing lesbian sex, Tessa Gratton on reclaiming genderqueer monstrousness and more.

Ryan Yates

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Sep 24, 2020

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8 Books Featuring Bi+ People in Longterm Relationships

Given that identities are often assumed based on the gender of a person’s current partner(s), how do bi+ folks navigate longterm relationships? What effect does being in a longterm relationship…

Casey

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Sep 22, 2020

on the left, Zaina Arafat, a Palestinian American woman in a light blue tank top looks at the camera. on the left the cover of her book, You Exist Too Much — a typographic cover on top of an abstract painting with swipes of lavender, green, blue, and gold

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Queer Arabs Taking Up Space: An Interview With Zaina Arafat

Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the bi Arab romance novel l didn’t know I needed. We chat about the book, first-gen traumas, sexual ambiguity and Arab parents.

Sarah Yanni

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Sep 21, 2020

Two brightly colored figures, one brown with brown hair and one white with red hair, clutch each other and kiss as they seem to be pulled in opposite directions by an imposing crowd of riot police drawn in grays and browns

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In “SFSX,” Tina Horn Builds a Purity-Obsessed Sci-Fi Vision of our Dystopian Present

Autostraddle recently spoke with Tina Horn via video call to chat about the first volume of SFSX, her myriad influences, building community around art, the sex worker rights’ movement, and…

James Factora

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Sep 11, 2020

two women reading from the same book, with a cat

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Lez Liberty Lit: Library Sex

The people who fantasize about library sex, excerpts and fall reading lists galore, Black-owned bookstores and radical bookstores, pandemic creativity and more.

Ryan Yates

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Sep 10, 2020