WHAT?? There’s an A+ Book Club?!
Announcing the NEW A+ book club which features an author Q&A just for our members!
Gay History, Mystery, and Romance Abound in Latest Thrilling Vera Kelly Adventure
Set in 1971, Vera Kelly: Lost and Found takes the series’ titular P.I. from post-Stonewall NYC to the sprawling land of Southern California, where she must solve her most personal case ever: the disappearance of her girlfriend.
“Queerly Beloved” Is a Love Letter to Tulsa and Chosen Family
The queer baking romance has Tulsa at its core.
Let’s Hear It for the Disaster Bisexuals
My confused disaster of a teenage self could have used stories from this new canon of disaster bisexuals, stories about sexually fluid people in all their imperfections.
Self-Publishing Taught Me To Rethink Success
Author Sarah Wallace writes on queer community in the self-publishing world and rewriting the rules of her own success.
30 Books That Are Still Gay Even Though Pride Month Is Over
Today is July 1 which means that Pride Month is officially over, but here at Autostraddle we like talking about gay books 24/7/365.
“I Feel Love: Notes On Queer Joy” Reminds Us That Suffering Is Not Our Destiny
Queerness doesn’t have to be a burden. That’s what I wish I could tell my younger, lonely, and confused self.
Rainbow Reading: Give Me Your Most Escapist Book Recommendations
There’s been a ton of new queer romance coming out, as well as queer mystery. Catch up on the latest LGBTQ literary news.
“Brown Neon” Is a Tribute to the Power of Art and Community in the American Southwest
Over the course of these ten essays, Raquel Gutiérrez skillfully maps the realities, struggles, and joys of queer, Latinx, artistic life in the Southwest U.S.
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.
Davey Davis on “X,” True Crime, and the Fantasy of Screwball Comedy
“The thing that gets me about a lot of people’s just criticisms of Fifty Shades of Grey is, as a romance novel, as a ravishment novel, it’s a lot closer to real SM, real sexy pulp, than most.”
In Their Debut Romance, Akwaeke Emezi Writes a Kind of Love I Recognize
The friendship central to You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is as important as the romance.
Things I Read That I Loved #327: Every Misunderstood Youth Must Be In Want of a Publisher.
Topics include Child Protective Services, wrongful convictions, abortion, OXO kitchen products, safety town, getitng cancelled in high school, Joel Kim Booster, MTV Books and more!
“Yerba Buena” Is the Perfect Book To Bask in This Summer
Yerba Buena accomplishes in one novel what Sally Rooney attempted in three. And I say this as an on-the-record devoted Rooney Tune!
In Verse: Poetry Collections for Pride Month
In a field that was once dominated by the cis straight white male voice, LGBTQ poets and poets of color are finally starting to get their due.
Revisiting “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions,” 45 Years Later
I didn’t know this book at all until a few months ago. I borrowed it thinking it’d be hilarious to read in public spaces and have people give me questionable stares. That mentality was replaced by the desire to build bridges.
With Characters From Middle School to Middle Age, This LGBTQ Short Fiction Collection Has the Range
In resisting the tidiness of a happy ending, Conklin demonstrates something profound and important that made me cry at several of these stories.
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.”
In “How To Be Eaten,” Fairytales and Reality TV Are Twisted Sisters
The new novel takes classic fairytales and a Bachelor-like reality show and twines them into a fresh tale of wronged women.
It’s Lit: Queer Youth on an Online Book Club Club That Became Family
“Well the premise combined two of my favorite things: being gay and reading, so I was naturally intrigued.”