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

A collage including highlighters, a vase that's also a bookend, pressed flower bookmarks, a hanging bookshelf, and a planter shaped like books

holigays

Holigay Gift Guide: What To Buy for Book Lovers (Other Than Books)

If it’s too much pressure to pick out a book for your literary pal, consider a creative display shelf, a customizable book planter, pressed flower bookmarks, and other presents that…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Dec 3, 2021

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Do Not Privatize Libraries

Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.

Ryan Yates

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Dec 2, 2021

Malinda Lo, who won a National Book Award, next to the winning book: Last Night at the Telegraph Club

book features

Malinda Lo Won a National Book Award for “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” — And I Yelled

Malinda Lo’s National Book Award win for Last Night at the Telegraph Club comes at a particularly crucial moment for LGBTQ+ YA as a genre.

Yashwina

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Nov 18, 2021

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Queer Books as Hydra

The color-coded bookshelf conversation continues, queer books are unstoppable, queerness in Sally Rooney’s work, and more.

Ryan Yates

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Nov 18, 2021

book features

Things I Read That I Love #323: Pulp Fiction With a Hint of Social Justice

Topics include witchcraft consumerism, Kidz Bop, delivery workers in NYC, Ozy Media, abuse in the guardianship industry, Succession, documentaries and the hunt for a sober buzz!

Riese

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Nov 5, 2021

A woman reading in front of a cozy set of candles on a coffee table

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Reading in Front of the Screen Fire

Find out books to read if you like Practical Magic, what it’s like to cook like Frankenstein, where “old book smell” comes from, and more!

Ryan Yates

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Nov 4, 2021

Image shows the word Greedy in colorful block letters and laid on top in simple script are the words "notes from a bisexual who wants too much"

literature

Jen Winstons’ Greedy Reminds You To Remember The “And”

“I learned to accept that I contain multitudes, and neither my sexual orientation nor gender identity are exempt from my multifaceted nature.”

Amari Gaiter

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Oct 29, 2021

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Love Is Renewable

Are you considering NaNoWriMo? Plus, a library from Solange, how literary gatekeepers can elevate Black trans women writers, queer webcomics and more.

Ryan Yates

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Oct 22, 2021