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

book features

Trans Representation in YA Fiction Is Changing, But How Much?

We are in a crucial moment where we can change trans representation in YA and do it in a way that doesn’t leave anyone behind.

Ray Stoeve

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May 18, 2020

book features

6 Queer Authors on What It’s Like to Launch Their Books in a Pandemic

If you’re looking to escape reality for a little while, look no further than this year’s absolute bumper crop of queer novels. As late spring and summer literary events are…

Lisa A.C. Ryan

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May 13, 2020

literature

Things I Read That I Love #310: Eight Minutes Of Scream-Talking The Coolest Things You Can Think Of

Topics include nannies during COVID, The Chive’s “bro bait” website, Val Kilmer, Shaker Heights, Sesame Street, making adult friends, women in criminal justice films and so much more!

Riese

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May 8, 2020

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: What Will Your Practice Look Like?

Books to break your reading slumps, queer adult comics creators living under FOSTA/SESTA, new Simone de Beauvoir, Meryl Streep’s bookshelves and more.

Ryan Yates

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May 7, 2020

book lists

13 Legally Free Digital Queer Books for Your Quarantine Needs

I’ve scrounged the internet for totally FREE (and legal) digital copies of amazing queer books. Groundbreaking trans fiction, comics, queer classics, and more!

Casey

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May 2, 2020

lgbt book reviews

Natalie Diaz Writes the Love Poem for Our Lives in “Postcolonial Love Poem”

Postcolonial Love Poem is everything the title purports it to be. It positions itself between the worlds of love and violence, and answers the question of where love can exist…

danijanae

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Apr 29, 2020

book features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: April’s Arithmetics of Distance

This is dedicated to those who are just trying to make it through every day. It’s been gratifying on an almost cellular level to find that the queen mother Audre…

Jehan

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Apr 29, 2020