Queer Literature

Winning the Culture War Against Queer Kids’ Books

Michael Leali Imagines a World Where Queer Kids Have Access to Books That Celebrate Their Identities

 
By Michael Leali  June 7, 2024
Queer Literature

A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

By Pedro Lemebel  May 29, 2024
Queer Literature

Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

By Christina Cooke  May 10, 2024
Queer Literature

Dorothy Allison: “In the Stories We Share and Those We Have Not Yet Crafted—We Live Forever”

By Dorothy Allison  April 22, 2024
Queer Literature

More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
Queer Literature

Oh, Queer Canada: A Reading List for Americans in Search of LGBTQ Canadian History

By Rose Sutherland  April 10, 2024
Queer Literature

10 Queer Books For People With Mommy Issues

By Marissa Higgins  April 4, 2024
Queer Literature

In Search of a Rare Queer Voice: Hannah Levene on Butch Lesbian Literature

By Hannah Levene  February 15, 2024
Queer Literature

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

By Shastri Akella  July 31, 2023
Queer Literature

A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Northern England

By Helen Palmer  July 26, 2023
Queer Literature

The Lesser-Known Novel of the 1950s That Presaged Queer Liberation

By Cat Sebastian  June 1, 2023
Queer Literature

Literary Lovers: A Sapphic Reading List for Every Mood

By McKayla Coyle  April 27, 2023
Queer Literature

How Messy Can a
Rom-Com Be?

By Carlyn Greenwald  April 20, 2023
Queer Literature

Growing Up Queer: A Coming-of-Age Reading List

By Richard Mirabella  March 15, 2023
Queer Literature

The New, New Black Gay Renaissance

By Cary Alan Johnson  September 6, 2022
Queer Literature

The Ocean is a Lesbian: Notes on Queer Women and Water

By Julia Armfield  July 12, 2022
Queer Literature

Drag Explosion: A Queer Nonfiction Reading List

By Nicole Pasulka  June 24, 2022
Queer Literature

Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

By Susie Dumond  May 4, 2022
Queer Literature

Why We Should All Be Reading English Novelist Kay Dick

By Lucy Scholes  February 1, 2022
Queer Literature

Reconstituting Our Shared Past: On the Transformative Power of Queer Historical Fiction

By Beatrice Hitchman  January 6, 2022
Queer Literature

To All the Gays of Seoul: On Translating Sang Young Park

By Anton Hur  November 17, 2021
Queer Literature

8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

By Amanda Kabak  July 27, 2021
Queer Literature

On E.M. Forster’s Maurice and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

By William di Canzio  July 6, 2021
Queer Literature

Matthew Clark Davison on Care, Abuse, and the Narrative Possibilities of Brotherhood

By Paul Lisicky  June 7, 2021
Queer Literature

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  April 16, 2021
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