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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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Morgan Thomas On Weaving Genderqueer History Into Their Debut Short Fiction Collection “Manywhere”

“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort…

Abbie Jones

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Jan 24, 2022

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Things I Read That I Love #324: You May Call It Dirty, But I Call It Home

Topics include kids who play with toys on YouTube, the Brooklyn Nets, the price of being single, NFTs, LuLaRoe, weight loss camp, debt, a Home Makeover Horror Story and more!

Riese

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Jan 19, 2022

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Rainbow Reading: It’s Showtime, Folks

Every other week, I’ll run my metal detector over the literary internet, dig up whatever beeps, and present to you my findings.

Yashwina

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Jan 13, 2022

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7 Brilliant Books About Chaotic Queers

When I think about “good” queer representation, I think about bad. I think about bad behavior, bad relationships, bad choices, bad words.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jan 9, 2022

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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories To Get Lost in This Weekend

Find strangeness, horror, spit, and surreality in these five queer short stories available online. And let me know if you want to see more short fiction recs on Autostraddle!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jan 7, 2022

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Slow Takes: Casey Plett’s “A Dream of a Woman” and Forgiveness as a Love Story

Often I find myself pushing so hard against the image of trans loneliness that I don’t allow myself to acknowledge the truths that lie within. This book acknowledged them for…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Jan 6, 2022

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80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Winter 2022

If you thought 2021 was a banner year for LGBTQ+ books, wait until you see what the first three months of 2022 have in store for queer book lovers.

Casey

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Jan 3, 2022

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Lez Liberty Lit: The End

Over the decade-ish that I’ve been writing this column, the number of published queer and trans stories has exploded.

Ryan Yates

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Dec 30, 2021

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15 Great Queer Novels About Sisters

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What Hot Queer Book Published This Summer Should You Read?

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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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Drew Burnett Gregory

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The Right Isn’t the Only Side We Need To Fight When It Comes to Trans Sports Inclusion

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Stef Rubino

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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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Elyssa Maxx Goodman

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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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