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

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How Writing “The Ship We Built,” a Children’s Novel, Helped Me Come Out

The first draft of The Ship We Built was intended as a valentine for one person. Six and a half years later, The Ship We Built has been released as…

Alexandria Bean

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Sep 3, 2020

A photo of a light skinned person taking a library book off the shelf.

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As School Season Begins, Fight for Trans Representation in Public Libraries

The public library is in the unique position to pick up where public education leaves off—to succeed where public education fails. It’s time we start rethinking what a library can…

Ada Wofford

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Aug 27, 2020

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65 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Fall 2020

I can confirm that no matter what you’re looking for — YA, non-fiction, memoir, romance, literary fiction, comics, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, poetry — there are queer and…

Casey

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Aug 27, 2020

A collage of Audre Lorde looking directly into the camera with Jehan, the author, looking directly over her shoulder also at the camera. The color palette of the collage is warm like the sun, with yellows and oranges.

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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: August’s New Spelling of My Name

In my own myth, New York has been the cornerstone of what shaped me, finally allowing myself to be in my queerness. While the New York I inhabited and the…

Jehan

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Aug 27, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Boredom Banana Bread

The relationships between boredom, work, art, pandemic, and banana bread; the bourgeois romance of pandemic isolation; read books about “disreputable women” by women writers and more.

Ryan Yates

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Aug 27, 2020

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Things I Read That I Loved #312: The Key Word is “Oneself,” Which Is Irresistible To 20-Year-Olds

Topics include YouTuber adoptions, romance novels, moldy jam, Sarah Schulman, the future of the fashion business is sweatpants, supermarket sweep and so much more!

Riese

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Aug 21, 2020

A rectangular feature image of 8 different YA Novels, each with the cover partially obscured.

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8 Queer YA Novels With Coming of Age Hope to Relive Alice Wu’s “The Half of It”

Queer YA novels with themes similar to Alice Wu’s already beloved movie: falling in love through letter writing, figuring out your queer identity, keeping secrets, new friendships, small towns, and…

Casey

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Aug 18, 2020