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To Name the Bigger Lie by Sarah Viren
LGBT Book Reviews

Sarah Viren’s Memoir Is A Compelling Exploration of the Nature of Truth

When we live in a society where truth matters so little, what are we supposed to do with it once we have it?

Stef Rubino June 14, 2023 1 Comment
Book Features LGBT Pride

Kemi Adeyemi’s Feels Right Explores the Politics of Black Queer Nightlife

Adeyemi told me when we talked in May that she has long been “frustrated with writing about queer nightlife that really presents it as this utopian escape from everyday life.” “That’s a story, it’s not reality,” she argues. 

Lauren Herold June 10, 2023 1 Comment
Queering the Midwest, surrounded by a bust on fire, three matches, and a dart
Book Features LGBT Pride

Clare Forstie Wants To Change the Way You Think About the Queer Midwest

“I am a queer person who grew up in and has lived in small communities, small towns, and small cities for my entire life.”

Lauren Herold June 7, 2023 9 Comments
Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland, essay collection by Stacy Jane Grover, Pageboy by Elliot Page, All Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky, Falling Back in Love With Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom, All the Yellow Suns by Malavika Kannan, Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens, Mrs. S by K. Patrick, and I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
Book Lists

81 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Summer 2023

Kai Cheng Thom’s new book of essays is coming out in August, the first two books from Roxane Gay’s brand new press are releasing, Elliot Page’s much anticipated memoir is available, Jacqueline Carey is returning to her Kushiel’s universe, and more!

Casey June 6, 2023 9 Comments
Moby Dyke by Krista Burton
LGBT Book Reviews

Moby Dyke Is a Fresh Take on the Old Conversation About Disappearing Lesbian Bars

I didn’t go to my first lesbian bar until I was in my early twenties.

Stef Rubino June 6, 2023 6 Comments
Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza
LGBT Book Reviews

“Lesbian Love Story” Has Something To Teach Us About Ourselves

It’s important for us to gather all of the stories of the people who came before us in order to help fuel our fight against the people who want to push us out of existence.

Stef Rubino May 30, 2023 9 Comments
Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko
LGBT Book Reviews

Hayley Kiyoko’s Debut YA Novel Tells Queer Love Story Set in 2006

If I’m being honest, it’s one of the better written celebrity fiction novels that I’ve read (and I’ve read Lauren Conrad’s YA series).

Sa'iyda Shabazz May 29, 2023 7 Comments
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Māhealani Madden, Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns, If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar, The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, Ask the Brindles by No'u Revilla, She Is a Haunting by Trang Tranh Tran, The Truth About Me by A. Revathi, and How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
Book Lists Quizzes

Quiz: Which Queer Book Should You Read To Close Out AAPI Month?

Please enjoy a captivating queer read by an AAPI author as we move into the season of leisurely reading by the pool and generally being gay.

Em Win May 28, 2023 12 Comments
the cover of the DapperQ coffee table book, repeated three times over. The cover includes portraits of eight different queer people posing in gorgeous and unique outfits. On a black banner background in the center, white texts reads: DapperQ Style, Ungendering Fashion
Book Features Queer Fashion

In “dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion,” Queer Style Is Centered and Celebrated

Our bodies deserve exuberant fabrics and innovative design and can highlight beautiful parts of what society typically erases.

dapperq May 23, 2023 7 Comments
Tegan and Sara, as drawn by Tillie Walden, on the cover of their new graphic novel, Junior High
LGBT Book Reviews

Tegan and Sara’s “Junior High” Brings Their Origin Story to a Graphic Novel

Queer youth need to see a hero’s journey from queer icons who’ve lived it! And they need to be able to relate to it, not to write it off as ancient history.

Heather Hogan May 22, 2023 1 Comment
Literature

Rainbow Reading: A New Entry Into the Growing Body of Powerful Queer Florida Lit

Also, two words for you: DYKE WESTERN.

Yashwina May 18, 2023 10 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft Book Lists

Required Reading for Jupiter in Taurus

You have a year to complete this assignment, and there will be no test.

Corina Dross May 17, 2023 7 Comments
Roxane Gay, Carrie Brownstein, Roberta Colindrez, and Jane Lynch
Book Features

Roxane Gay, Carrie Brownstein, Roberta Colindrez, Jane Lynch To Star in Audible Adaptation of Dykes To Watch Out For

With a killer voiceover cast and a creative team with strong theater cred, the Audible version of Dykes to Watch Out For looks hot.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 16, 2023 17 Comments
Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis
LGBT Book Reviews

“Dykette” Has Plenty of High Femme Camp Antics

The novel is thought-provoking even in its flaws.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 16, 2023 5 Comments
Human Sacrifices by María Fernanda Ampuero
LGBT Book Reviews

“Human Sacrifices” Is a Latine and Feminist Gothic Must-Read

Gothic is the instrument by which Latine authors have historically been able to explore coloniality, migration, violence, and other horrors of Latin American society.

Lily Alvarado May 15, 2023 3 Comments
girl leaping into the air
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #329: Goop Cruising, YouTube Tween Cults, Amy’s Kitchen, Botched Plastic Surgery, Et Al

Topics include a novelist who lied about being Cuban, shopping on Temu, shifting science on alcohol consumption, Elizabeth Holmes, the Goop Cruise and more!

Riese May 12, 2023 28 Comments
Forbidden Fires by Margaret C. Hills with a badge on it that says LOST LESBIAN LIT
Book Features

Lost Lesbian Lit: A Lesbian Novel From the 1950s and the Continued Importance of Maude’s Abortion Episode

Our perception of history is shaped by who writes the stories and who publishes them.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 12, 2023 5 Comments
Book Lists

10 Books To Read in the Bathtub

The perfect bath time book is right around 200 pages or less.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 10, 2023 17 Comments
The cover of Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl. Margo, a femme red head in a skirt and tank top, stands beside Abbie, a tomboy in skater clothes, in front of a green brick wall.
LGBT Book Reviews

“Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl” Is a Swoony Queer Neurodiverse Romance

I’m not sure I’ve ever laughed and swooned, simultaneously, as much as I did while reading Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl, a queer high school romance that features two neurodiverse characters from wildly different worlds.

Heather Hogan May 10, 2023 7 Comments
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude
LGBT Book Reviews

In Lesbian YA Debut, Teen Girls Find Love in the Midst of an Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth

The biggest theme in Jen St. Jude’s If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is mental health.

Sa'iyda Shabazz May 9, 2023 2 Comments
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