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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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‘The Garden Against Time’ Asks, Who Gets To Live in Paradise?

I didn’t grow up knowing anyone who had a traditional garden. In South Florida, where the heat is relentless and the storms are unpredictable, it takes a special kind of…

Stef Rubino

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Jul 22, 2024

Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s

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Looking Back on 1970s Lesbian Feminist Film and Sci-Fi To Reimagine the Future

“I mean props to those who are three years old and are like, ‘I’m gay.’ But some of us have to meet some gay people, and sometimes those people are…

Lauren Herold

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Jul 13, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #337: Getting Your Ex Back, Trendy Baby Names, Subway Commercials, Etc

Topics include the rise of romance bookstores, the rise of the get-your-ex-back industry, the first celebrity chef, Subway commercials, the Hard Rock Cafe, trendy baby names and more!

Riese

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Jul 12, 2024

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Growing Up Queer With a Narcissistic Mother Was Its Own Special Hell

The twisted protagonist’s mommy issues in Elle Nash’s ‘Deliver Me’ were far too relatable for comfort.

Nico

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Jul 11, 2024

3-picture collage: Bunny by Mona Awad, Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

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Feeling Feral? Here’s 17 Novels For The Weird Girls

I love a fucking weirdo narrator — a strange girl who’s always on the outside of things, always looking too closely at everything around her, drawing conclusions nobody wants to…

Riese

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Jul 10, 2024

A triptych of the All-Night Pharmacy cover against an off-white textured background

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‘All-Night Pharmacy’ Is a Bisexual Neo-Noir About Addiction, Psychics, and Intergenerational Trauma

In this fresh take on the mystery novel, what needs to be solved is not a murder — it’s not even a missing sister or the truth of a psychic…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Jul 9, 2024

Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable by Sarah Gerard

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‘Carrie Carolyn Coco’ Isn’t Like Any Other True Crime You’ve Read

With her new book Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, Sarah Gerard forces us to reckon with ourselves and how we approach the…

Stef Rubino

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Jul 8, 2024

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When It Comes to Fat Liberation, the Work Is Never Done

“I think the fewer examples there are of fat people or people writing about fatness, the more we expect from individuals, when fatphobia is a systemic problem. What I really…

Stef Rubino

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Jul 3, 2024