Literature

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

book lists

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

book features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: June’s Uses of Anger

We are in the middle of a revolution. My Black woman’s anger is here to signal a necessary sea change. Understand that all of our freedoms are bound up in…

Jehan

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Jun 29, 2020

literature

Check Out the Cover & New Excerpt of Malinda Lo’s Forthcoming “Last Night at the Telegraph Club”!

Malinda Lo’s work has been incredibly relevant and sustaining to this site and this community, and her voice on current leaps forward in lesbian cultural production remains unparalleled. Which is…

Rachel

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Jun 29, 2020

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Bodies Are Not Metaphors

How to find a queer incarcerated penpal, why it is correct to capitalize Black, “The Vanishing Half,” “You Exist Too Much,” living in the Cool Zone, it’s time for publishing…

Ryan Yates

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Jun 25, 2020

literature

EXCLUSIVE: Staceyann Chin Performs Her Poem “Crossfire” with Video Artist Sekiya Dorsett

Chin’s work is invaluable always, and in the current moment. We’re glad, then, to bring you this new and gripping performance of the book’s title poem, from Haymarket Books and…

Rachel

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Jun 24, 2020

book lists

Resistance 101 Reading List: A Crash-Course for Aspiring Revolutionaries

You’re joining a fight that is by no means new, check out this list of books to make sure you come correct to the next rally.

Danielle

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Jun 9, 2020

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: The Work Is Bigger than Backorder

Readings and reading lists on Black radicalism, dismantling white supremacy, antiracism, police brutality and more.

Ryan Yates

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Jun 4, 2020

book features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: May’s Burst of Light

“I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes — everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like…

Jehan

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May 30, 2020

book lists

60 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Summer 2020

Queer and feminist books, including, YA, non-fiction, memoir, romance, literary fiction, comics, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, and poetry, hitting bookshelves this summer!

Casey

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May 25, 2020