Literature

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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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10 Books To Obsess Over This August

August is a steamy time of year thanks to the combined powers of Leo season and the final weeks of hot girl summer. It’s a good time to obsess. It’s…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 4, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit Has Simply Had Enough of Drowning

How to live in a burning world without losing your mind, read these books in the second half of 2021, why to reconsider air conditioning, uncategorized creative work, a love…

Ryan Yates

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Jul 29, 2021

Three repeating images of the cover of Mariame Kaba's We Do This Til We Free Us

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“We Do This ‘Til We Free Us” Makes Abolition Accessible Without Claiming It’s Easy

Imagining what true justice would look like is difficult and strange and convoluted and there aren’t easy answers. Kaba, along with countless other writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries, has spent decades…

Abbie Jones

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Jul 16, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Discipline Is Part of Creation

On writing regularly, an approach for overwhelm, a book of botanical drawings and more.

Ryan Yates

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Jul 15, 2021

One Last Stop review: The cover of One Last Stop: A queer Asian woman in ripped jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket, and red sneakers stands on the Q train. A white bisexual woman with red hair, carrying a cup of coffee, wearing black boots and a black jumper-dress walks by and notices the woman in the train. The cover says "One Last Stop."

lgbt book reviews

Casey McQuiston’s “One Last Stop” Is an Unmissable Queer Rom-Com Full of Hope, Humor, and Heart

In Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop, Jane and August fall in love in the all-consuming, omniscient, dramatic, lifelong lusty way only queers and fan fiction characters do.

Heather Hogan

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Jul 9, 2021

pic of the book "What Fresh Hell is This"

lgbt book reviews

Heather Corinna Makes Menopause Accessible, Hilarious, and Queer AF in “What Fresh Hell Is This?”

Come for the Victorian menopause psychoanalysis mad lib; stay for the ode to cooling pillows. Heather Corinna has gifted us the queer and trans-inclusive book about menopause you didn’t know…

KaeLyn

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Jul 9, 2021

A photo of author Vic Liu in a lavender sheer sleeve dress propping her head on her fist and looking directly into the camera next to a stack of copies of Bang!

book features

How and Why I Wrote Bang!: A Masturbation Sex-Ed Book for Everyone

I made Bang! Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities because it profoundly made sense to me, because there was a gaping hole in that plastic wall where there…

vforvicliu

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Jul 7, 2021

the cover of the new babysitter's club anthology repeated three times, a yellow book on a purple background

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‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods

No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the…

the team

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Jul 6, 2021