25 LGBT History Books to Add to Your Epic Queer History Reading List
Celebrate LGBT History Month by reading LGBT history books!
Lez Liberty Lit: Love After Life
Consider only reading queer romance, bisexual slang, horror stories by women and more.
Our Sex Is Good: Kink Writing in the 1980s–1990s
How two 1970s and 1980s lesbian BDSM books changed the national conversation around feminism, lesbianism, and kink.
Myriam Gurba’s Floating World in “Mean”
Gurba’s writing feels devastating and holy and hilarious all at once, like a dead sea scroll that is as fun to read as an old issue of Playboy.
Read A F*cking Book Club: We’re Gonna Read “We Were Witches!”
We Were Witches by Ariel Gore is an autobiographical novel that uses magick spells and inverted fairy tales to combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans. We’re going to read it together this month!
c c cummings: An Excerpt From Mean by Myriam Gurba
“To read a piece about lesbian e e cummings, you have to fully commit, but you could tell Dr. Brown was scared.”
Things I Read That I Love #248: Good F*cking Luck Fighting Off Those Bowls of Baby Snickers.
Topics include The Olive Garden, Harvey Weinstein, domestic violence, Kink.com, Dirty John the con artist, an immersive Casper mattress experience, essential oils and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: A Peculiar Malfunction
The Nobel Prize is “fun” now, “Her Body and Other Parties,” Shirley Jackson, Rupi Kaur, the most subversive thing a woman can be and more.
Read These Queer Banned Books Right Now
Read queer banned books. Support their authors. And maybe buy an extra copy or two of these and leave them in a school library near you.
Things I Read That I Love #247: A Pit of Pink Snakes That Will Inject Me With Pink Venom
Topics include group chat, murder, Jamaica High School, Rosé, Basic Instinct, libraries, the injustice of the criminal justice system, why cops shoot and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Bodies Are Terrifying
Feminist books to inspire creative resistance, book collecting, writers of color and escaping autobiography, Harry Potter fanfiction feelings and more.
8 Books About Queer Friendships to Snuggle Up With This Fall
Most queer books focus on romantic relationships. These ones are centered on queer friendship.
15 Must-Read Bisexual Nonfiction Books
Whether you’re looking for powerful personal bisexual narratives, insightful political analysis of bisexual issues, or information to help understand bisexuality (yours or someone else’s), there are books in here you don’t want to miss!
The Bisexual Character in My YA Novel Isn’t “Perfect” — Which Is Perfect
Being bi is Gen’s favorite thing about herself. It’s as freeing for her as it’s become for me.
10 South Asian LGBTQ Books That Changed My Life
From fiction to anthologies and histories to graphic novels, the last ten years have shown that telling our own stories is essential to building a community and garnering the strength to live an authentic life.
Things I Read That I Love #246: To Be A Work-in-Progress Is Nearly Unacceptable
Topics include Taylor Swift, Dylan Roof, where your Forever 21 shirts get made, Colin Kaepernick, reading Jane Eyre while black, Milk Bar, the sorrow and shame of the accidental killer, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Empathy Is A Clock
How empathy works, a new quarterly queer book club box, literary sequels, narratives in old letters and more.
Things I Read That I Love #245: Listening to a Sad Song Can Become a Way of Pushing on a Bruise
Topics include sorority fashions, Taylor Swift, plus-size fashion, being a minority in start-up media, that Piece of Shit Joe Arpaio, Kathy Griffin, emo and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Take Up Space
The beauty of language in translation, reading the classics while black, top 10 books about tyrants for no reason, parties as literary devices and more.
Read a F-cking Book: Nicole Georges’s “Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home”
“Fetch” is a beautiful love letter to a pet, a coming of age story, and an exploration of all the complexities of what it really means to take care of another living being.