Get in Your Back-to-School Feelings With These 10 Queer YA Books
Back-to-school time is my favorite time of the year now that I’m an adult.
Slow Takes: “Stone Fruit” and Choosing Given Family
I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.
Juniper Fitzgerald’s Queer Memoir-in-Fragments Examines Her Identities as a Sex Worker and Mother
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.
In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History
What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active history of a place that most people are unfamiliar with.
Queer Naija Lit: “We Are Flowers” Documents the Beauty and Resilience of Nigeria’s Queer Community
We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.
Rather Than a Coming Out Story, “Body Grammar” Is About Queer Characters Coming Into Themselves
Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.
In Verse: Poetry Collections for a Big Life Change
I have never lived anywhere that wasn’t in Pennsylvania. This state is my home, but I’m ready to move on from it.
Rainbow Reading: Even the Crows Are Queer in This Upcoming Speculative Novella
Catch up on the latest LGBTQ+ literature news in Rainbow Reading.
Keah Brown on Her New Picture Book and the Importance of Disability Representation for Children
“I was excited to talk about rest for children, to talk about how even rest can be an adventure.”
“All This Could Be Different” Review: A Novel So Good I Dreaded Finishing It
Whether she’s writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ sentences seduce and swathe.
Author Lydia Conklin on Being Queer in the 90s and Writing Characters in Transitional Moments
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
Quiz: What Queer Book Should You Read To Extend Summer?
Do you need a summery queer book to pack in your beach bag?
10 Books for Dungeons & Dragons Queers To Read Between Adventures
All of these stories feature: magic and/or melee, quests, chosen families, and queer characters.
Putsata Reang’s New Memoir Fills In the Gaps of Lost Family History
Putsata Reang’s memoir “Ma and Me” grapples with what it means to carry intergenerational trauma not only as an Asian American, immigrant, and refugee but also as a queer person.
K-Ming Chang on Writing Sex Scenes, Profanity in Myths, and Letting Flash Fiction Be Messy
I’m finally getting to write the sex scenes of my dreams — some really weird, some really tender, and others in between.
Rainbow Reading: Exclusive “Lesbian Love Story” Cover Reveal!
Amelia Possanza’s debut memoir Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in the Archives is everything I’ve wanted: intimate and voracious and utterly magnetic.
In LGBTQ Sci-Fi Anthology “Out There”, the World Is Screwed — But Queer Love Finds a Way
“Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder” features work by Leah Johnson, Z Brewer, and more.
“Body Language” Anthology Offers Invitation To Reckon With Our Messy Bits
Body Language — a new anthology from Catapult — is one of the best essay collections I’ve read in a long time.
“The Bruising of Qilwa” Review: A Trans and Queer Fantasy Novella That Packs a Punch
The short book by Naseem Jamnia is an extremely fast-paced, engaging read.
“The Golden Season” Is a Queer Love Letter to West Texas
The writing is gorgeous and filled with beautiful imagery and insightful quotes.