Clowning Around With Kristen Arnett
“How many scenes have had people work something out at a diner? Can’t that happen at an Olive Garden?”
Queer Books To Read if You Love ‘Yellowjackets’
Feminist fairytales, girlhood horror, and genre-bending books for the feral gays hungry for more Yellowjackets-adjacent stories!
Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for March 2025
New Torrey Peters! A debut novel from Emily St. James! Queer, Black poetry collections! March is gonna be a great month for LGBTQ literature.
Maybe Gabrielle Korn Set Her Queer Dystopian Climate Novel ‘The Shutouts’ Too Far in the Future
“I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda. I would do anything to not be annoying.”
There Has Never Been a Better Time To Read About Two Girls Falling in Love at the End of the World
The Last Bookstore on Earth is a YA dystopian novel set in a bookstore and full of sapphic yearning.
The Most Anticipated Queer Books for February 2025
Check out our top five picks for the month along with the rest of the LGBTQ book slate for February.
Read an Excerpt From ‘Broughtupsy’, a Queer Jamaican Diaspora Novel
Chirp of tree frogs floating sonorous, each piercing chirrup rising on the wane of the last. I’m in my childhood home.
Queer Books About the Environment for When All You Can Think About Is Climate Crisis
These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.
A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer
Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.
We Took a Gay Literary Road Trip Through Central Florida, and You Should Too!
As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches. Adding a Florida bookstore road trip to your next vacation in the sunshine state will let you see parts of this place in a deeper way.
The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2024
Catch up on all the great queer poetry from this year!
Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey Want To Read Books and Eat Snacks With You
We talked to Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig about Allstora’s PANTS Pod book club and its mission to uplift queer authors, connect with pod listeners and read some really good lesbian books.
The Best Queer Books of 2024
This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.
48 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out December 2024 and January 2025
The next couple months are bringing lots of new queer books to shelves, but sapphic Romantasy in particular is booming this winter.
13 Sapphic Holiday Romances To Devour This Winter
These stories make you want to curl up on the couch in a thick sweater with a mug of your favorite hot chocolate while sitting next to your twinkling Christmas tree.
10 Books That Celebrate Trans Joy
From trans memoirs that revel in the beauty of transition to sci-fi novels, manga, and quiet literary dramas that give us a reason to be proud, these books remind us that being trans is, in fact, a celebration!
20 Dorothy Allison Quotes I Think About All The Time
“Two or three things I know, but this is the one I am not supposed to talk about, how it comes together — sex and violence, love and hatred.”
Dorothy Allison, Lesbian and Feminist Writer and Activist, Has Died. We Must Keep Learning From Her Life’s Work and ‘Remake the World’
Dorothy Allison died at the age of 75 from cancer earlier this week. Some of my favorite teachers in the world are people I’ve never shared a classroom with, and Allison is undoubtedly one of them.
Things I Read That I Love #339: Nerd Clusters, Love Is Blind, Competitive Cheerleading, the Free Returns Industry and More
Topics include “border theater” in Texas, the rise of Nerds Clusters, the WNBA, regional McDonalds’ cuisine, behind the scenes at Love is Blind, how the Fentanyl crisis is harming teens, the collapse of self-worth in the digital age, the competitive cheerleading monopoly and more!
Writing a Lesbian Novel Should Have Been Easier. It Wasn’t
Was it cowardice that kept us, in our debut, from writing a queer novel?