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Book Features The L Word

Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig Go Deep Into The L Word’s Most Legendary Sex Scenes

“It was our way of subverting expectation, showing that lesbians are different kinds of people with their own relationship dynamics, even in the bedroom.”

Kate & Leisha June 4, 2025 2 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

Dawn Staley’s Memoir Welcomes a New Generation of Women’s Basketball Fans Into Her Greatness

Uncommon Favor isn’t just a memoir about Dawn Staley; it’s a history lesson in the growth of women’s basketball.

Natalie June 3, 2025
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Book Lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for June 2025

Two real queer humans wrote this queer anticipated books list. AI would have put fake books on it.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese
June 2, 2025 23 Comments
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Book Features

The Right Isn’t the Only Side We Need To Fight When It Comes to Trans Sports Inclusion

We all know that this sports issue has nothing to do with sports, and it has nothing to do with protecting female athletes. This topic has been a roundabout way to erode rights for transgender people.

Stef Rubino May 27, 2025 4 Comments
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Book Features

Charlie Claire Burgess Understands Why You Might Hate Religion

In their new book Queer Devotion, Charlie Claire Burgess joins a robust tradition of queer and trans people reclaiming religious symbolism for ourselves.

Emma Cieslik May 22, 2025 3 Comments
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Book Features

Alison Bechdel Never Thought She’d Be This Successful

Alison Bechdel talks fame, privilege, and returning to old characters for her new work of autofiction.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 20, 2025 9 Comments
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Author Taylor Jenkins Reid Comes Out As Bisexual, Just Like Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s “Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is one of the most successful sapphic novels of all time — and with her queer space thriller “Atmosphere” debuting this June, Reid has come out as bisexual.

Riese May 19, 2025 9 Comments
photos from behind the scenes of The L Word, taken by Jennifer Beals
Book Features

Jennifer Beals Is Letting You Into Her Massive ‘The L Word’ Archive

Jennifer Beals has put together the ultimate walk down sapphic memory lane with the release of The L Word: A Photographic Journal, a gay tome featuring over 400 candid photographs taken by Beals on the set and behind the scenes.

Sa'iyda Shabazz May 19, 2025 4 Comments
A Sharp Endless Need by Mac Crane
LGBT Book Reviews

‘A Sharp Endless Need’ Lives in the Intersection of Sex and Basketball

At their heart, great sex and great basketball rely on the same fundamental principles: trust, attention, collaboration, and a desire to create something with whoever you’re with.

Gen May 13, 2025 1 Comment
Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakely-Cartwright, Good Girl by Aria Aber, and Exalted by Anna Dorn
Book Lists

The Best Queer Books Featuring Mommy Issues

Gays really are out here having complicated relationships with our mothers and then writing whole books about it.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 11, 2025 8 Comments
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Book Lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2025

Over 50 promising LGBTQ+ books across every genre are heading your way this month! See our top picks for May 2025.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese
May 3, 2025 9 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews LGBT History

The Hidden History of Lesbian Phone Lines

London Friend’s Lesbian Line, which opened in 1989 and closed in 1999, was one of many gay and lesbian phone lines across the UK.

Lauren Herold May 1, 2025 1 Comment
My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
LGBT Book Reviews

Meryl Wilsner Has Done It Again With This Friends-to-Lovers Romance With Killer Sex Scenes

In a sea of skinny sapphic romance novels, I found Wilsner’s latest to be a refreshing change for the genre.

ashni April 29, 2025 3 Comments
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
LGBT Book Reviews

Jasmine Guillory’s First Sapphic Romance ‘Flirting Lessons’ Is a Fun Take on a Classic Trope

Overall, Flirting Lessons is about what happens when you try to overcome what other people think about you.

Sa'iyda Shabazz April 28, 2025 4 Comments
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Book Features

It’s Independent Bookstore Day, So Go Buy Some Gay Books

This year, Independent Bookstore Day feels especially important and fraught, as mega-retailer Amazon decided to throw one of its book sales at the same time.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 26, 2025 4 Comments
three queer books set on reality tv shows
Book Lists

15 Queer Romance Books and Sapphic Literary Novels Set On Reality TV Shows

As a population, lesbians tend to be especially hopeful about the possibility of lesbian love blossoming on a reality show that’s supposed to be about straight love or baking cakes. Luckily so many novels have stepped in to make those dreams come true!

Riese April 17, 2025 8 Comments
Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde / Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco by K Iver / Feed by Tommy Pico
Book Lists TV Feature

What Queer Poetry Book Would Fix Each Yellowjacket (Or Make Them Worse)

One of the most important pillars of girlhood is orbiting your entire personality around the likes of Sylvia Plath and writing your own poetry to deal with the woes of one’s burgeoning sexuality, toxic friendships, and other coming-of-age tragedies.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan April 15, 2025
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Book Features

How Podcasters Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Navigated Their Big Divorce Announcement

Read an exclusive excerpt about Kristin and Jenny’s divorce, followed by a clip from the audiobook.

Kristin April 9, 2025 3 Comments
Slayers Every One of Us by Kristen Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
LGBT Book Reviews

From Wives to Exes to Friends: ‘Slayers, Every One of Us’ Tells the Tale of Two Queer Podcasters and Buffy

The joint memoir tells the emotional tale of Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs fighting to keep their labor of love alive through personal struggles, a global pandemic, and a hellmouth opening up around them.

Valerie Anne April 9, 2025
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Book Features

The Ghostwriting Drama Surrounding Straight Influencer Tinx’s Lesbian Romance Novel, Explained

Many have wondered why straight influencer Tinx wrote lesbian romance novel, Hotter in the Hamptons. But did she even write it?

Drew Burnett Gregory April 8, 2025 10 Comments
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