If you liked “The Idea of You” but wished it was gay, these lesbian, queer and gay novels that feature romance between a celebrity and a normal person will definitely fill that aching void in your heart.
If you’re looking for something that evokes spring, whether literally or figuratively, this list of YA and Adult Romance has you covered.
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
Here are all the Lambda Literary Award finalists that Autostraddle wrote about this year.
2. It would be some years before I got to a place where I truly believed that accidental formaldehyde poisoning was not a main concern when making my foray into my future sex and dating life.
What’s on the horizon for queer books in March, April, and May? New work from Judith Butler, K-Ming Chang, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and so much more.
When I find myself needing comfort from the atrocities of being an adult, these are the books I usually turn to.
“I worked on this book between 2019 and 2023, years not exactly known for… incredible progress. In many ways, letting myself slip into another, imaginary world — albeit a worse one — was how I made sense of it all.”
I have unlocked a new level of intellectual heaven: listening to an audiobook while doing a jigsaw puzzle.
I thought it would be fun to do a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing.
Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.
Reading picture books was a way I connected with my son when he was a preschooler, and I was able to teach him about things like racism, empathy and of course, LGBTQ+ issues.
I’ve watched whole lives transform in my classrooms and outside of them because of the stories we read, because of the work we did together, because of our difficult and revelatory and compassionate conversations, and because we were never afraid to face the truth.
It’s Banned Books week. We can do our part and get reading.
Bring on the literary GAYHEM.
If you loved “Red, White & Royal Blue,” here’s 15 more gay romance novels, aka m/m romance, featuring two men doing cute and also erotic things together!
I’ve been thinking a lot about the queering of craft.
Novels, memoirs, essay and short story collections that are really good and also have lesbian sex in them! Wow!
Read these works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and then let yourself fill with rage and release.
Kai Cheng Thom’s new book of essays is coming out in August, the first two books from Roxane Gay’s brand new press are releasing, Elliot Page’s much anticipated memoir is available, Jacqueline Carey is returning to her Kushiel’s universe, and more!