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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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Hil Malatino’s “Trans Care” Doesn’t Have the Answers on Meeting Trans Community Needs — But It Shouldn’t

It’s doubly oppressive that we’re denied care and then left to fulfill the care needs of each other with our own depleted resources. Transantagonism is a global pandemic of indifference…

Abbie Jones

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Dec 1, 2020

A collage of Audre Lorde with Pat Parker, laughing together at a joke, alongside an image of the author and her friend, both smiling wide at the camera.

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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: November’s Sister Love

It has felt hard to state how much I’ve been missing my family lately. But Audre Lorde and Pat Parker’s relationship is a testament to the life-affirming power of queer…

Jehan

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Nov 27, 2020

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Curses, Crushes and Celesbians Abound in Emily M. Danforth’s “Plain Bad Heroines”

Plain Bad Heroines is a story so much about storytelling that it feels almost obscene to point it out. “This is story-telling, people!” it seems to shout, in the voice…

Lindsay Lee Wallace

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Nov 23, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: A Cute Panopticon

Why literature is so self-aware, living like an artist, caring for others without destroying yourself and more.

Ryan Yates

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Nov 19, 2020

A woman wearing rollers and a red polka dot dress reclines on a bed with a cigarette, reading a copy of ODD GIRL OUT intently

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No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction

A look into the history — and present! — of mid-century lesbian pulp fiction.

Chloe Maveal

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Nov 18, 2020

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Things I Read That I Love #314: There Were Many Days In Which Several People Were Typing

Topics include Far Right literature, the Spelling Bee game, influencers traveling during COVID, the pandemic DIY boom, the Folgers Incest Ad, Lean Cuisine, recovery, faking illness on GoFundMe and truly…

Riese

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Nov 13, 2020

Two women are lounging in a cozy indoor space covered in blanket and pillows with a warm yellow light as if by a flashlight at night, one person reading from their phone screen and one hunched over reading from a hardback book

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Lez Liberty Lit: What’s Up With Reading Lists

What is Afrofuturism, readings on climate and clean energy transition, a new anthology of radical trans poetics and more.

Ryan Yates

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Nov 5, 2020

A black-and-white two fold collage. On the left is a close up photo of Jehan, the writer. On the right is a similarly close up photo of Audre Lorde.

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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: October’s Dead Is Behind Us

To be Black in this world is to be intimate with a kind of living death. It’s an intimacy no one craves, and yet Black people know better than most…

Jehan

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Oct 29, 2020

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Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad’s Stunning New Novel ‘Beings’

Pick An Actual Category, You Strange Genius

Gabrielle Korn

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Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page

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Drew Burnett Gregory

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The Right Isn’t the Only Side We Need To Fight When It Comes to Trans Sports Inclusion

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Alison Bechdel Never Thought She’d Be This Successful

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Jennifer Beals Is Letting You Into Her Massive ‘The L Word’ Archive

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The Greatest Women Filmmakers Are Mad for a Reason

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Bob the Drag Queen’s New Novel ‘Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert’ Is More Than a Joke

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Clowning Around With Kristen Arnett

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THE SHUTOUTS by Gabrielle Korn

Maybe Gabrielle Korn Set Her Queer Dystopian Climate Novel ‘The Shutouts’ Too Far in the Future

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Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey Want To Read Books and Eat Snacks With You

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