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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

My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner

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Meryl Wilsner Has Done It Again With This Friends-to-Lovers Romance With Killer Sex Scenes

In a sea of skinny sapphic romance novels, I found Wilsner’s latest to be a refreshing change for the genre.

ashni

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Apr 29, 2025

Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory

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Jasmine Guillory’s First Sapphic Romance ‘Flirting Lessons’ Is a Fun Take on a Classic Trope

Overall, Flirting Lessons is about what happens when you try to overcome what other people think about you.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Apr 28, 2025

Carrie Fisher and Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally

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It’s Independent Bookstore Day, So Go Buy Some Gay Books

This year, Independent Bookstore Day feels especially important and fraught, as mega-retailer Amazon decided to throw one of its book sales at the same time.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 26, 2025

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15 Queer Romance Books and Sapphic Literary Novels Set On Reality TV Shows

As a population, lesbians tend to be especially hopeful about the possibility of lesbian love blossoming on a reality show that’s supposed to be about straight love or baking cakes.…

Riese

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Apr 17, 2025

Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde / Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco by K Iver / Feed by Tommy Pico

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What Queer Poetry Book Would Fix Each Yellowjacket (Or Make Them Worse)

One of the most important pillars of girlhood is orbiting your entire personality around the likes of Sylvia Plath and writing your own poetry to deal with the woes of…

Gabrielle Grace Hogan

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Apr 15, 2025

Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo and their joint memoir Slayers Every One of Us

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How Podcasters Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Navigated Their Big Divorce Announcement

Read an exclusive excerpt about Kristin and Jenny’s divorce, followed by a clip from the audiobook.

Kristin

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Apr 9, 2025

Slayers Every One of Us by Kristen Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs

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From Wives to Exes to Friends: ‘Slayers, Every One of Us’ Tells the Tale of Two Queer Podcasters and Buffy

The joint memoir tells the emotional tale of Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs fighting to keep their labor of love alive through personal struggles, a global pandemic, and a…

Valerie Anne

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Apr 9, 2025

Straight influencer Tinx next to the cover of her fiction debut Hotter in the Hamptons ghostwritten by Gabrielle Korn

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The Ghostwriting Drama Surrounding Straight Influencer Tinx’s Lesbian Romance Novel, Explained

Many have wondered why straight influencer Tinx wrote lesbian romance novel, Hotter in the Hamptons. But did she even write it?

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Apr 8, 2025

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