Literature

Author interviews, guides to the best LGBT Literature, Gay and Lesbian Novels and Memoirs and more!

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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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Lez Liberty Lit: James Baldwin’s Record Collection

James Baldwin’s record collection as a playlist, procrastination and writer’s block and whether or not they’re value neutral and more.

Ryan Yates

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Jul 1, 2021

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Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!

We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the…

Rachel

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Jun 29, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love #320: Remember How Reckless Karaoke Seemed so recently?

Topics include Zola, the rise in Black homeschooling, the return of FOMO, online stalking, “Friends,” why meetings, Generation X, racism in The Bachelor, Mare of Easttown and more!

Riese

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Jun 25, 2021

Image shows the cover of the book with text in neon colors that read "The 2000's made me gay" essays on pop culture by Grace Perry

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“The 2000s Made Me Gay” Is a Pop Culture Filled Ode to the Queer Millennial Experience

“These essays offer layers of wise hindsight, exploring how certain 2000’s pop culture tropes contributed to how closeted so many gay millennials were — and how they influenced what kind…

Kim Wong-Shing

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Jun 18, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Stories Have Power

The power of queer coming-of-age stories, even when you’ve already come; the myth of objectivity; writing about the body; and more.

Ryan Yates

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Jun 17, 2021

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8 Books about Queer People Dealing with Cancer

From classics such as Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals published in the 1980s to brand new graphic memoirs, here are eight queer authored books about cancer.

Casey

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Jun 14, 2021

A vintage television set sitting on top of a stool in a warm-toned room with the text LITTLE BLUE showing on a static-y screen

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“Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)” Is a Queer Trans Eulogy to Love and Television

“When I say it’s comforting I mean it’s comforting in the omg this is so painful and beautiful and I love art and I love being trans and I want…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Jun 9, 2021

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COVER REVEAL: Check Out the Smokin’ Cover of Grace Lavery’s Much-Anticipated “Please Miss”

Carmen Maria Machado calls it “hilarious and sexy and terrifying in its brilliance,” while Michelle Tea says it’s a “daring, perverse, mind-blowing, intellectual, hilarious, outrageous, inspired work of art that…

Rachel

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Jun 8, 2021