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15 New LGBT Books to Make Your Summer Hot Hot Hot
Whether your thing is memoir, fiction, new poetry or YA, there’s definitely something coming out this summer by and/or about queer people that you’re going to want to throw in your bag for the beach, get points for in your library’s summer reading program, or share with that new babe you just started seeing who loves your poetry recs.
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Megan Falley’s “Drive Here and Devastate Me” Is a Love Letter to the Queer Community
Drive Here and Devastate Me, queer femme author Megan Falley’s fourth collection of poetry, is a love letter to the queer community. We talked with Megan about her writing process, femme invisibility, body politics, and of course, love.
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8 Dark Lesbian Mysteries and Thrillers That’ll Give You Deep Chills
These dark mysteries and thrillers featuring lesbian and bisexual main characters focus less on the romance and more on the hair raising on the back of your neck.
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Read These 8 Works of Intersex Fiction Right Now
Eight stories that feature intersex characters for you to read right now.
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100 of My Favorite Poets For Your Survival Pack
In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.
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8 Lesbian BDSM Novels to Curl Your Toes (and Maybe Melt Your Heart)
Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.
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Things I Read That I Love #213: Can These Desires and Needs Survive Together
Topics include Dress for Success, OJ Simpson, open marriages, Star Tours, what men love about war, lesbians in the ’90s, a white supremacist who went to college and changed his mind and so much more!
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Walking and Talking, Kicking and Screaming: An Interview with Ruth Curry of Emily Books
“If I saw my writing career through the eyes of a mediocre white man I’d be, like, that dude would be fucking high on himself constantly.”
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Fall 2016 Book Preview: 48 Queer and Feminist Books To Add To Your Reading List
Welcome to your list of queer and/or feminist books coming out in fall 2016. New Zadie Smith, Ivan Coyote, Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood, Bae Suah and more.
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215 Of The Best Longreads Of 2015 — All Written By Women
This should keep your brain busy for quite some time.
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Read A F*cking Book Club: A Conversation With Gabby Rivera About “Juliet Takes A Breath”
We’re talking to Gabby Rivera about her debut novel “Juliet Takes a Breath”! We talk about subtleties in Latinx media representation, queer community, forgiveness and, of course, Lil’ Melvin.
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Drawn to Comics: Maggie Thrash’s Debut “Honor Girl” Captures Teenage Camp Queerness
“So much of being a girl in this society is about people trying to CONTAIN you. When I think about camp, I get this gut feeling, remembering the sky above my head. No walls, no parents. During the school year, you’re just trying to survive. Camp is a chance to be someone freer- an actual person.”
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9+ Queer Canadian Poets to Break Your Heart and Put It Back Together Again
Queer Canadian poets tend to be experimental, to push against boundaries. They tell it like it is, challenge our ways of thinking, and actively organize for change. Their words are hilarious, heartbreaking, and wise. Here are some queer Canadian poets — mostly female-identified — whose words have changed my world for the better.
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Patricia Velásquez, Gay Latina Supermodel, Wants You To Live Your Truths: The Autostraddle Interview
The Venezuelan supermodel, actress and activist talks about her new memoir, coming out now vs. then, inspiring gay Latinas, the kinds of pastries she brought Sandra Bernhard years ago and working on set of The L Word.
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Lez Liberty Lit #52: Lazy Reading Days
Zadie Smith, superlatives, reader’s block, Samantha Irby, public domain reviews, queer book fairs and more.
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If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come
Listen up all queermos within striking distance of Philly! There’s a new bookstore coming your way — a very very queer bookstore with a café and art and all sorts of amazing things. And it’s being built from the ground up by community members Makella Craelius and Puppett.
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Things I Read That I Love #113: In A Way, We’re All Here To Be Swallowed Up
Topics include Fox News, The Illinois State Fair, Johnny Lewis, Mean Girls, Woody Allen, medical actors, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and moar!
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Read A F*cking Book: Denice Bourbon’s “Cheers!” Is All Booze, Burlesque, and Big Dreams
“Writing a Rita Mae Brown ‘Sudden Death’ or Jenny Schecter ‘Lez Girls’ was never an option.”
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140 Longform Pieces You Can Read And Love
140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”