Rainbow Reading: Don’t Stop Believer-ing
Let’s talk about what just happened with The Believer. Also, calling all my short story gays! Welcome back to Rainbow Reading, your biweekly roundup of LGBTQ+ lit news.
In Verse: Poetry Collections That Conjure Spring
In these books, you won’t necessarily find flowers and natural scenes, but you will find a general feeling of rebirth, of growth, and of finding peace within the things that trouble us.
Seven Queer Writers Reflect on Their Essays Published in “Sex and the Single Woman”
Behind the scenes with Kristen Arnett, Keah Brown, Rosemary Donahue, Josie Pickens, Vanessa Friedman, Samantha Allen, and Xoai Pham about their contributions to this reimagined cult classic.
Rainbow Reading: A Fictional Happy-Ever-After Doesn’t Always Satisfy When It’s a Real Life Happy-Ever-After That I Want
Check out the latest updates in LGBTQ+ literature, including an upcoming virtual reading to raise funds for queer and trans youth in Florida and Texas!
“We Do What We Do In the Dark” Is More Than a Lesbian Age Gap Romance
When we’re young, we relate to older people who are themselves young. We read maturity where it is not deserved.
“I Kissed Shara Wheeler” Is Another Swoony Queer Romance From Casey McQuiston
If you loved Red, White & Royal Blue or One Last Stop, you’re going to be over the gay moon about McQuiston’s latest novel.
Eight Romance Books Featuring Butches, Studs, and Masc of Center Characters
These are mostly contemporary romances, with themes and tropes such as second chance relationships, sports, reality TV, fake relationships, online dating, ghosting, age gaps, and more!
Things I Read That I Loved #326: It Was 1997 and Everything Seemed Mostly Okay.
Topics include Barnes & Noble, Black Excellence according to Bel-Air, a dog’s purpose, #vanlife, a nurse imposter, the pursuit of hotness, Los Angeles, Starbucks, the real reason for a recent spike in traffic accidents and more!
“Flung Out of Space” Grapples With Patricia Highsmith’s Misanthropic Lesbian Life
Patricia Highsmith liked three things: women, writing, and cigarettes.
Unleash Your Inner Jock With These 10 Sporty Gay Romance and YA Books
Sports! They make us gay, and we can’t get enough of reading about them!
Perfume Provides a Map of Memory and History in This Powerful Memoir
Tanaïs’ In Sensorium is an aesthetic, intimate labyrinth of ancestral reckoning and identity.
Rainbow Reading: Have You Heard About This Queer YA Retelling of Julius Caesar?
Apparently, it promises “bisexuality and backstabbing.” 👀 Get all your LGBTQ+ book news in the latest Rainbow Reading!
Chloe Caldwell on First Periods, PMDD, and That Weird Blue “Blood” in Tampon Commercials
The author discusses her new memoir “The Red Zone,” which chronicles her experiences with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and provides a kaleidoscopic view of how people feel about their periods.
In Verse: Poetry Collections for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Whether you’re ready to heal or just want to hear someone else’s story, these poets are experts at examining grief, loss, and recovery.
“Burning Butch” Is the Trans Butch Memoir We’ve Always Needed
We’ve always needed books like Burning Butch out in the world reminding us that it’s possible to fight back, to overcome, and to survive despite all odds.
Rainbow Reading: I’m a Book-at-the-Bar Kind of Nerd
Yashwina is back for another round of Rainbow Reading, rounding up all the latest LGBTQ+ literature news and happenings.
“Little Foxes Took Up Matches” Stayed With Me Long After I Finished Reading
The book invites readers to fall in love with a child falling in love with himself and his friends and his own power and his own transformative potential amidst a backdrop of chaos, and even if you weren’t born in 1987, it will likely stick with you for a while.
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.
80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Spring 2022
The weather is getting warmer and the LGBTQ+ books are only getting hotter! Queer book lovers, get ready we have all your spring blanket reading needs covered.
A Conversation With Jhani Randhawa About Their Poetry Collection “Time Regime”
In this creative nonfiction+artist interview chimera, Almah LaVon Rice reviews the poetry collection Time Regime and wanders its estuaries with author Jhani Randhawa.