Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for October 2025
It’s October, and you know what that means! Lots of new queer and trans horror heading your way! And plenty to choose from other genres, too.
Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad’s Stunning New Novel ‘Beings’
“I think having crushes can be really nice. It can remind you that you have a body that can reach out, that you have a nervous system capable of excitement as well as anxiety or stress or anger or ennui.”
Mattie Lubchansky’s Folk-Horror Graphic Novel ‘Simplicity’ Is Transcendent
Lubchansky illustrates trans sexuality as sensual and transcendental but also with all the messy awkwardness and vulnerability that comes with human intimacy.
I Have Never Felt More Cherokee Than While Reading ‘To the Moon and Back’
This novel is queer in the best ways.
“Surviving Isn’t Enough”: Tess Sharpe, Nicola Griffith, and Katrina Carrasco on Writing Expansive Queer Fiction
“If I’m deliberately trying to queer anything, it’s the world, one reader at a time.”
Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for September 2025
September is here, and with it comes a bunch of new LGBTQ+ book releases — from horror to rom-coms and everything in between!
Twenty-Five Years Later, Michelle Tea’s ‘Valencia’ Remains Stunning Portrait of Lesbian Life
Valencia permitted me to romanticize my world.
Non-Binary Actor Alyson Stoner Hopes Their Memoir Is the Last of Its Kind
Alyson Stoner’s new memoir, Natalie Morales playing Claire Danes’ ex-wife, Mae Martin in a new thriller series, The Beaches’ new single Lesbian of the Year, and more!
15 Great Queer Novels About Sisters
For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to stories about sisters. Perhaps because my first memory is of my sister’s birth.
16 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With
“Gay people on road trips” is actually one of my favorite literary genres.
What Hot Queer Book Published This Summer Should You Read?
Why decide for yourself what to read when you can let a silly little quiz decide for you!
What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It?
Lately, I’ve been obsessing over the concept of queer generational trauma: the pain passed down to us from our ancestors, which we bequeath in turn to those who come after us.
Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025
There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more LGBTQ+ lit across all genres!
78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive
The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just 50 of the many publications that built the community we hold so dear.
Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page
“The ‘hot’ in Hot Girls with Balls is that it’s a given our protagonists are extremely beautiful.”
Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for July 2025
Pride month may be over, but we read queer all year, and these are our top picks for new LGBTQ+ books coming out July 2025.
7 New Trans Novels To Read This Summer
In less than six months, 2025 has already amassed an absolutely stellar line-up of trans novels that range from historical fiction, lyrical explorations of dysphoria and identity, and science fiction set in a futuristic, robot obsessed Korea.
The Toxic Lesbian Vampire Novel That Turned Me Into a Fantasy Reader
V.E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil sunk its fangs into me and never let go.
Queer Books To Read if You Miss ‘The Last of Us’
We have to wait SO LONG for the next season. So, to tide us over, I have some queer books to recommend to you that will scratch some of the same itches.
‘So Gay For You’ Is Everything I Hoped It Would Be and More
‘So Gay For You’ is a loving portrait of chosen community, a roaming time capsule of queer pop culture, a platonic love story, a behind-the-scenes look at a groundbreaking show and an introspective, juicy celebrity memoir.