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LGBT Book Reviews

“At Her Service” Is a Sweet Sapphic Romance With Crucial Lesbian Kickball Representation

Amy Spalding’s second book in the “Out in Hollywood” series centers on Max, a wee masc lesbian in Hollywood roped into a self-actualization scheme by her influencer roommate and most importantly to me, playing a lot of lesbian kickball.

Riese March 25, 2024 4 Comments
Florida Man: Poems, Revisited by Tyler Gillespie
LGBT Book Reviews

This Recently Expanded Poetry Collection Touches on the Ambivalence of Being Queer in Florida

I’m still learning how to be queer in Florida.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 21, 2024
Love and Hot Chicken by Mary Liza Hartong
LGBT Book Reviews

Two Women Find Love in a Quirky Southern Town in “Love and Hot Chicken”

Slow burn romance in a small Southern town gives this queer novel its heat.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 20, 2024 2 Comments
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
LGBT Book Reviews

Judith Butler Elucidates Dangers of Anti-“Gender Ideology” Movement, Doesn’t Sufficiently Answer What To Do About It

Why does Butler spend so much time trying to refute these illogical suppositions in the first place?

Stef Rubino March 19, 2024 7 Comments
Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake
LGBT Book Reviews

Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature

The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.

Lauren Herold March 18, 2024 1 Comment
Solidarity by Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor
LGBT Book Reviews

New Book “Solidarity” Is Necessary Read, Even if It’s Difficult To Apply to All Liberation Movements

As with most nonfiction books about political topics, I finished Solidarity with more questions than answers about how to integrate its concepts into my day-to-day life.

Abbie Jones March 12, 2024 2 Comments
City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter
LGBT Book Reviews

In “City of Laughter,” a Story Doesn’t Have To Be Complete To Be Meaningful

Temim Fruchter’s debut novel is fueled by queer desire and queer investigation.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 12, 2024 1 Comment
We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller
LGBT Book Reviews

This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds

If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.

Sa'iyda Shabazz February 28, 2024
How You Get the Girl
LGBT Book Reviews

Sapphic Basketball Romance “How You Get the Girl” Is a Slam Dunk

Imagine you are coaching a girl’s basketball team and the retired WNBA player you used to crush on shows up as the foster parent of one of your team members and you’re both queer?!?! Like?!

Sa'iyda Shabazz February 15, 2024 5 Comments
The 'Godzilla Valentine's Day Special' #1 cover art, by Dani Pendergast and M. Smith, is in shades of black, blue, and blush pink. In one cover a sapphic couple make heart eyes with each other while Godzilla is in the background. In the second cover a brunette femme has heart shaped sunglasses and we can see Godzilla in the reflection.
LGBT Book Reviews

The Godzilla Valentine’s Day Comic Book Special Is a Sweet Sapphic Story of Love and Compromise

Written by trans lesbian comic book writer Zoe Tunnell, the Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special tells the story of Piper, a queer woman who decides to become a kaiju researcher after surviving an attack on Godzilla. It’s sapphic and gay as hell and I love it.

Latonya Pennington February 14, 2024 3 Comments
Portrait of a Body book cover times three
LGBT Book Reviews

Julie Delporte Wanted To Be a Lesbian Even Before She Was Sexually Attracted to Women

At 35, Delporte’s acceptance of her sexuality serves as a catalyst that helps her understand her relationships, her interests, her experiences with boys and young men as a young woman, and, especially, her body.

Stef Rubino February 9, 2024 2 Comments
Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester
LGBT Book Reviews

Documenting and Honoring Queer History Requires Imagination

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories, a new book by cultural historian Diarmuid Hester, shows us what is possible when we consider space in this way.

Stef Rubino February 7, 2024
How To Be Multiple by Helena De Bres
LGBT Book Reviews

New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife

There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious thoughts about queerness and what it means to be a queer person.

Stef Rubino January 29, 2024
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
LGBT Book Reviews

“Dead in Long Beach, California” and the Inevitability of Grief

Venita Blackburn’s debut novel is a masterful feat of storytelling.

Stef Rubino January 22, 2024 2 Comments
Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
LGBT Book Reviews

“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers

There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.

Juan Barquin January 17, 2024
Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakely-Cartwright
LGBT Book Reviews

“Alice Sadie Celine” Is a Delectable Queer Sex Novel With a Wicked Sense of Humor

If you’re less into slow-burn and more into the narrative equivalent of a wildfire, this one’s for you.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 9, 2024 3 Comments
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
LGBT Book Reviews

The U.S. Occupation of Hawaiʻi Haunts the Pages of This Extraordinary Short Fiction Collection

It’s beautifully constructed from start to finish, and while the stories will get under your skin, it’s a welcome invasion.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 5, 2024 2 Comments
Survival Takes a Wild Imagination by Fariha Róisín
LGBT Book Reviews

“Survival Takes a Wild Imagination” Shows How the Labor of Liberation Makes Us Better

Through her newest collection of poetry, Fariha Róisín explores her experiences as a queer, Muslim, Bangladeshi woman trying to heal from a childhood of abuse and the pain of generational trauma.

Stef Rubino January 2, 2024
Girlfriends by Emily Zhou
LGBT Book Reviews

Short Fiction Collection “Girlfriends” Presents Expansive, Nonlinear View of Transition and Dysphoria

The trans women in Girlfriends often find themselves stuck in the spiderweb of someone else’s drama or self-implosion.

Nic Anstett December 28, 2023 1 Comment
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
LGBT Book Reviews

Sapphic Yearning, Horror, and K-Pop Blend Perfectly in “Gorgeous Gruesome Faces”

I’ve never really been a horror girlie, but in recent months, I’ve found myself intrigued by YA books that have a horror element.

Sa'iyda Shabazz December 27, 2023
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