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Book Features

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!

Riese April 29, 2022 4 Comments
The cover of Flung Out of Space: Patricia Highsmith stares out a window with her cat while smoking a cigarette.
LGBT Book Reviews

“Flung Out of Space” Grapples With Patricia Highsmith’s Misanthropic Lesbian Life

Patricia Highsmith liked three things: women, writing, and cigarettes.

Heather Hogan April 25, 2022 14 Comments
The books She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen, Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin, Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney, and Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan are arranged between a soccer field, a track field, a basketball hoop, and a baseball diamond.
Book Lists Sports

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!

Sally April 24, 2022 69 Comments
In Sensorium: Notes For My People by Tanaïs
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Em Win April 22, 2022
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Literature

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!

Yashwina April 21, 2022 8 Comments
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Book Features

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.

Analyssa April 19, 2022 2 Comments
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Book Lists

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.

danijanae April 14, 2022
Burning Butch: A Memoir by R/B Mertz. The cover features a box of matches on it.
LGBT Book Reviews

“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.

Stef Rubino April 11, 2022 1 Comment
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Literature

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.

Yashwina April 7, 2022 12 Comments
Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek
LGBT Book Reviews

“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.

Abbie Jones April 5, 2022 7 Comments
Vagabonds! a novel by Eloghosa Osunde
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu April 5, 2022 12 Comments
The books We Do What We Do In The Dark by Michelle Hurt; The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón; Spell Heaven by Toni Mirosevich; You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi; The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi; X by Davey Davis; Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi; and This Time for Me: A Memoir by Alexandra Billings
Book Lists

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.

Casey March 31, 2022 10 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Almah LaVon Rice March 31, 2022 10 Comments
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Literature

Making it Work: A Queer Author Screams into the Wind

I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.

Nyri A. Bakkalian March 28, 2022 2 Comments
The book cover of Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
LGBT Book Reviews

Jean Chen Ho on “Fiona and Jane,” the Eros of Friendship, and Finding Your Fiction Community

“When I was writing these women and their mothers, I wanted to show that these are individuals.”

Em Win March 28, 2022 3 Comments
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Literature

Rainbow Reading: It’s Queer Lit Awards Season!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya guest hosts Rainbow Reading this week, highlighting new LGBTQ+ book releases, events, book sales, and more!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 24, 2022 4 Comments
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Book Lists Movie Lists TV Lists

22 Fictional Books From Movies and TV Shows We Would Really Like to Actually Read

Anybody got a copy of “Station Eleven” or um, “The Wrong Side of the Bed; Corruption, Cover-Ups and a Crisis of Culture on America’s #1 Morning Show”?

Riese March 23, 2022 18 Comments
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
LGBT Book Reviews

“My Volcano” Is an Abnormal, Bizarre, Exhilarating Novel About a Volcano Suddenly Emerging in Central Park

My Volcano is an abnormal, bizarre, sometimes frustratingly opaque novel — but it’s also one of the most exhilarating ones I’ve read in years.

Abbie Jones March 22, 2022
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Literature

Things I Read That I Loved #325: Like a Hippie Van Collided With a Paint Factory

Topics include TED Talks, murder, Morrissey, a horrific party limousine crash, infertility, the Atlanta Spa Shootings, Super Bowl Halftime Shows, a legendary Massachusetts roadside restaurant and more.

Riese March 18, 2022 2 Comments
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Book Lists

In Verse: Poetry Collections for Impressing the One You Love

Being in love is to be full of swell, all bells, and tinkles.

danijanae March 17, 2022 5 Comments
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