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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for October 2025

It’s October, and you know what that means! Lots of new queer and trans horror heading your way! And plenty…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Oct 7, 2025

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“Rose Quartz” Review: Poems for the Wounds We Carry

Shades of pink have followed me through my life, showing up in names, flowers, organs, sex.

Em Win

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Apr 27, 2023

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“Just as You Are” Is the Gayest Rom-Com I’ve Ever Read

Just As You Are is a full-on enemies-to-lovers romance that exudes queerness at every possible turn.

ashni

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Apr 25, 2023

Negative Money by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, The World Keeps ENding, and the Wold Goes On by Franny Choi, and Freedom House by KB Brookins

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8 Poets With New Queer Books To Check Out This National Poetry Month

If I’ve given you one poetry recommendation, I’ve held back from giving 15.

A. Tony Jerome

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Apr 24, 2023

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Rainbow Reading: Give Me All the Queer Paleontology Novels!

Plus, coming out this August, a book that promises “Bridgerton meets Freaky Friday sapphic romcom.”

Yashwina

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Apr 20, 2023

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25 Lines of Poetry I Think About Once a Day

It’s National Poetry Month, so I become a poetry hound, sniffing out new books and revisiting old ones, finding solace, rage, love, and beauty in some of the words crafted…

danijanae

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Apr 18, 2023

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Sexy, Ambitious Novel “Any Other City” Explores Transition and Transformation

I don’t remember ever reading such sexy queer sex.

Abbie Jones

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Apr 18, 2023

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“Sizzle Reel” Doesn’t Let Its Queer Romance Be Messy

I don’t want Twitter and TikTok discourse to dictate how books are written.

Christina Tucker

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Apr 17, 2023

Assisted Living by Sheila Oritz Taylor with a badge on it that says LOST LESBIAN LIT

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Lost Lesbian Lit: Murder! At the Retirement Home

My only positive memory of my grandma was our last, the one time I was with her as myself.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Apr 14, 2023

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