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‘Housemates’ Is a Remarkable Novel, Intimate, Expansive, and Full of Sight

It’s about seeing through images and seeing through words. It’s also a love story, about falling for the way another person sees the world, the magic of realizing someone sees…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

May 28, 2024

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Anna Dorn Writes Maximalist, Campy Queer Fiction Inspired by Lesbian Pulp

“I have problematic fantasies about being closeted in the 50s and just like having ‘a friend.'”

Keely —

May 22, 2024

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We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parson

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In ‘We Were the Universe’, Grief and Motherhood Are Horny

We Were the Universe eschews the conventional grief novel in its horniness, the conventional motherhood novel in its queerness, and even the conventional sex novel in its emphasis on fantasy…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 20, 2024

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‘Love the World Or Get Killed Trying’ Is a Poetic Cry of Trans Loneliness

The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

May 15, 2024

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‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive

Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 13, 2024

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romance

For Your Consideration, Her Royal Highness, Sizzle Reel

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17 Queer “Celebrity Falls For Normal Person” Romance Books If You Liked ‘The Idea Of You’

If you liked “The Idea of You” but wished it was gay, these lesbian, queer and gay novels that feature romance between a celebrity and a normal person will definitely…

Riese —

May 10, 2024

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‘How it Works Out’ Imagines Many Madcap Alternate Universes of Queer Love

It’s a gorgeous, speculative exercise in romance that’s as bound together as it is fragmented.

Aamina Inayat Khan —

May 8, 2024

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A Hilarious Sapphic Road Trip Romance About Death and English Teachers

‘Here We Go Again’ by Alison Cochrun delights — despite dealing with death.

ashni —

Apr 30, 2024

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Everytime You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris. Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings. Sizzle Reel by Carlyn Greenwald.

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Sapphic Romance Books To Give Your Heart a Spring Refresh

If you’re looking for something that evokes spring, whether literally or figuratively, this list of YA and Adult Romance has you covered.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Apr 16, 2024

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Bi4Bi Romance Thrives in This New Queer Regency-Era Rom-Com

Their romance also encapsulates the protagonist figuring out she’s a top, a journey I always love to see!

Casey —

Apr 8, 2024

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Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present

If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Apr 5, 2024

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The cover of A Good Happy Girl three times. A close up of a woman eating a sandwich.

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‘A Good Happy Girl’ Oozes With Lesbian Kink and Familial Pain

This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Apr 2, 2024