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

lgbt book reviews

Natalie Diaz Writes the Love Poem for Our Lives in “Postcolonial Love Poem”

Postcolonial Love Poem is everything the title purports it to be. It positions itself between the worlds of love and violence, and answers the question of where love can exist…

danijanae

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Apr 29, 2020

book features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: April’s Arithmetics of Distance

This is dedicated to those who are just trying to make it through every day. It’s been gratifying on an almost cellular level to find that the queen mother Audre…

Jehan

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Apr 29, 2020

person reading on a dock outside at sunset

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: It’s Okay If You Can’t Really Read Right Now

Art supply care packages, what even is “normal,” just get weird and more.

Ryan Yates

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Apr 23, 2020

book lists

Queer Comfort Reads for Tough Times

Comfort reads with queer characters to soothe you in today’s rough times! I’ve specifically picked books that are available in ebook format so that you can get a hold of…

Casey

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Apr 22, 2020

book lists

8 Great Space Operas with Queer Women and Non-Binary Characters

Now is a great time to escape to outer space, don’t you think?

Casey

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Apr 14, 2020

book features

Read a F*cking Book Club: Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” Offers Persistence, Painstaking Reality

We finished reading “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. At its core, the book is about embracing truth and change, which is especially true now — when our world…

Ari

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Apr 10, 2020

literature

Things I Read That I Love #309: Like The Cone With Flowers Coming Out of it to Look Like Ice Cream

Topics include Kinfolk Magazine, the Jazz vs Thunder no-game, 24 hours as EMTS during coronavirus, the opioid crisis, chain pharmacies, Estonia, Katie Porter and so much more!

Riese

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Apr 10, 2020

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Reading Weather

Supporting small booksellers online, Samantha Irby on writing, reading or not reading books about pandemics, why it’s time to keep a journal and more.

Ryan Yates

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Apr 9, 2020