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“Big Swiss” Review: On the Queer Age Gap Novel Set in a House Full of Bees
Big Swiss veers from horny to humorous to macabre in zigs and zags.
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A Sweet Sixteen Becomes a Coming Out Party in Queer YA Novel “Friday I’m in Love”
The scene where Mahalia — the Black queer teen at the center of Camryn Garrett’s new novel — comes out to her mom is painful but honest.
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Rainbow Reading: Gearing Up for Valentine’s Day With Queer Romance Reads
Also, the HarperCollins Union’s strike IS SOMEHOW STILL GOING ON. Rainbow Reading wholeheartedly supports the union as they pursue a fair contract for their workers.
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Queer Books Across America: Incredible Lesbian and Queer Novels and Memoirs Set in Every State
Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.
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Rainbow Reading: Queer Utopias Are Necessities
Publishing loves its dystopian novels, and true utopias feel even nicer for their scarcity.
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Rainbow Reading: What Are You Reading This Pride Month?
Welcome back to Rainbow Reading, your biweekly roundup of LGBTQ+ lit news you can use.
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20 Queer and Feminist Banned Books (And How To Get Them to Kids Who Need Them)
It’s Banned Books week. We can do our part and get reading.
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92 of the Best Queer Books of 2022
Almost every category in this 2022 best of list was very competitive.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin on “Manhunt,” Martyrdom, and the Unimportance of Being Valid
“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”
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That Was the Era: Photographer Phyllis Christopher on Her Book “Dark Room”
“It was a political statement to portray sex, to portray queer sex, as it was to demand civil rights in the daytime.”
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Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist
“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”
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Sophie Santos’ Memoir Takes Us On Her Queer Path To The Lesbian Agenda
No one’s life is split into two simple chapters. Santos lets all her former eras live right next to each other in the mirror.
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EXCLUSIVE Excerpt: Meet Toni, One of the Main Characters in Leah Johnson’s Latest Novel “Rise to the Sun”
Leah Johnson’s new novel “Rise to the Sun” follows two Black queer girls falling in love at a music festival — here’s an exclusive excerpt!
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Queer Naija Lit: “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde Names the Things People Would Rather Look Away From
Welcome to Queer Naija Lit, a new series that analyzes and celebrates queer Nigerian literature. First up: a review of the new novel “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde.
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Eight Books Featuring Women Dealing with Professional Jealousy
“I’m experiencing a debilitating bout of professional jealousy for another (deserving) woman, and I’m having a hard time with it. I wonder if there are any books that focus on this regrettable phenomenon?”
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Meg Jones Wall on Queer, Expansive Tarot
“What if we just let all of these cards have gender neutral pronouns and we break them free from these gender binaries and let them be every archetype?”
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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!
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.
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103 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Fall 2022
I can guarantee there is something for everyone on this list of fall 2022 queer and feminist books, whether your jam is graphic novel fairy tales, memoirs about queer family, or anything in between.
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80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Winter 2022
If you thought 2021 was a banner year for LGBTQ+ books, wait until you see what the first three months of 2022 have in store for queer book lovers.