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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

A tween is curled up in a blanket reading a book

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Rainbow Reading: I’ve Been Thinking About What I Was Reading When I Was 13

Plus, a new podcast exploring queer history through the lens of archive holdings at my favorite library.

Yashwina

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Mar 10, 2022

Jill Gutowitz's book cover for her debut essay collection Girls Can Kiss Now is dark purple with pink font and many line drawing illustrations of cool lesbians in the background

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“Girls Can Kiss Now” and Other Realizations with Jill Gutowitz

We reviewed “Girls Can Kiss Now,” Jill Gutowitz’s debut essay collection about pop culture, the internet, growing up, and being very very gay. You’re gonna love it.

Vanessa

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Mar 8, 2022

Eight Mystery Books With Bi+ Main Characters

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Eight Mystery Books With Bi+ Main Characters

We’ve got mystery thrillers, historical mysteries, fantasy mysteries, graphic novel mysteries!

Casey

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Mar 2, 2022

The cover of the book Why Design Matters has the words "why design maters" in red ink in from of black circles and squiggles agains a white book jacket. It is by Debbie Millman, with a forward by Roxane Gay. The cover is displayed twice in front of a red background.

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Debbie Millman’s “Why Design Matters” Is a Career Long Tribute of Lesbian Brilliance to Get Lost in on a Sunday Afternoon

Design Matters isn’t explicitly queer, but the longest-running podcast in history — with more than 40 million downloads and counting — comes from the mind of a lesbian and I’m…

Carmen Phillips

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Feb 27, 2022

A Black woman in a red beret reads a book with a mug in one hand

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Rainbow Reading: Trans! Vampire! Romance!

Plus, the debate about Sally Rooney’s depictions of bisexuality and queerness continues apace.

Yashwina

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Feb 24, 2022

The author Gretchen Felker-Martin. She is wearing red framed glasses and black lipstick and her hair is short and dark brown. On either side of her is the cover of her new novel Manhunt.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin on “Manhunt,” Martyrdom, and the Unimportance of Being Valid

“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Feb 22, 2022

A lit match against a blue background

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In Verse: Poetry Collections for Broken Hearts

This new series, In Verse, is about bringing you the collections of poetry that meet you where you are at. This first installment is for the person dealing with a…

danijanae

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Feb 17, 2022

The book cover of Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin features a pair of plums in a netted bag with a bite taken out of one of the plums. The bottom of the book says: The end of the world is nuts.

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A Mile in Her Jackboots: Writing TERFs as a Trans Author

The challenge of writing about human monsters is that you have to confront the ways in which they’re exactly like you are.

Gretchen Felker-Martin

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Feb 16, 2022

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What Hot Queer Book Published This Summer Should You Read?

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The Best Queer Books Featuring Mommy Issues

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

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

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We Had To Remove This Post. The Very Nice Box. The Default World.

Queer Books To Read if You’re Already Missing ‘Severance’

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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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Rachel and Harrison Browne and their book Let Us Play

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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