Anna Dorn Writes Maximalist, Campy Queer Fiction Inspired by Lesbian Pulp
“I have problematic fantasies about being closeted in the 50s and just like having ‘a friend.'”
‘Cactus Country’ Moves Beyond the Expected Borders of the Traditional Transition Memoir
Our stories don’t have to end where they start if we stay open to the potential around us.
In ‘We Were the Universe’, Grief and Motherhood Are Horny
We Were the Universe eschews the conventional grief novel in its horniness, the conventional motherhood novel in its queerness, and even the conventional sex novel in its emphasis on fantasy over reality.
‘Love the World Or Get Killed Trying’ Is a Poetic Cry of Trans Loneliness
The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.
‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive
Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.
19 Queer Books About Losing a Parent
These queer books across all genres are all haunted in some way by the death of a parent.
17 Queer “Celebrity Falls For Normal Person” Romance Books If You Liked ‘The Idea Of You’
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.
‘How it Works Out’ Imagines Many Madcap Alternate Universes of Queer Love
It’s a gorgeous, speculative exercise in romance that’s as bound together as it is fragmented.
A Hilarious Sapphic Road Trip Romance About Death and English Teachers
‘Here We Go Again’ by Alison Cochrun delights — despite dealing with death.
Maggie Nelson’s New Book Urges Us To Revel In the Art We Love
‘Like Love’ provides a creative and intellectual road map guiding us through many of Nelson’s influences, curiosities, and obsessions.
Queer Feminist Essay Collection Explores Horrors of Motherhood
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House is an ideal read for anyone interested in any one of its disparate themes: horror movies, queer parenthood, mental health, bisexuality, true crime, and more.
Sapphic Romance Books To Give Your Heart a Spring Refresh
If you’re looking for something that evokes spring, whether literally or figuratively, this list of YA and Adult Romance has you covered.
Yes, Gays Can Drive: Mechanic Shop Femme Demystifies Car Ownership
“So I really look at this book as a guide for the average car owner for regular people like you who aren’t out there trying to fix their cars in their driveways, who aren’t trying to soup up their vehicles, who do not have a passion for cars.”
37 Quotes From Queer Authors About Heartbreak, Loss and Moving the F*ck On
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
Bi4Bi Romance Thrives in This New Queer Regency-Era Rom-Com
Their romance also encapsulates the protagonist figuring out she’s a top, a journey I always love to see!
Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present
If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”
Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind
I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.
Queer Nightlife Doesn’t Need Permanent Spaces To Thrive
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Ghaziani examines how the closing of gay bars over the last 20+ years has helped bring about a new kind of queer nightlife, one that is less focused on being a permanent fixture in one location and more focused on mobility, inclusion, and ephemerality.
‘A Good Happy Girl’ Oozes With Lesbian Kink and Familial Pain
This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until both small joys and small discomforts are compounded into the same nauseating grotesquerie.
Let’s Celebrate Gay Books! Congrats to the 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!
Here are all the Lambda Literary Award finalists that Autostraddle wrote about this year.