In Jen Michalski’s queer romance novel "All This Can Be True", two women find each other and themselves after grief. Just before Lacie asks her husband for a divorce, he has a stroke and winds up comatose. While torn between supporting... Read More

Bonnie Yochelson’s enlightening biography "Too Good to Get Married" captures the life and work of nineteenth-century lesbian photographer Alice Austen. Born in March 1866, Austen, an amateur photographer living among elite Staten... Read More

A travel writer’s routine assignment spirals into a scandalous whirlwind in Sam Lumley’s mystery novel "How to Have a Killer Time in D.C." Oliver Popp, a gay, autistic writer with a penchant for structure, is tasked by his editors to... Read More

There have always been transgender people, shows Eli Erlick’s dynamic biographical collection "Before Gender", about thirty trans individuals of the past. This riveting, compassionate collection of life stories uses a process of... Read More

Two single mothers form an unexpected romantic connection in Lindsay Ishihiro’s endearing graphic novel "Motherlover". After a breakup, Alex, a cool, cosmopolitan musician, returns to her late parents’ suburban home with her... Read More

In the intrepid, intimate essays of "Edge of the World", edited by Alden Jones, travel engenders realizations about self, society, and the value of queer community. Sixteen authors of diverse sexual orientations and genders contrast here... Read More

Demree McGhee’s "Sympathy for Wild Girls" is an atmospheric short story collection about the restlessness of Black girls and women. Attentive to queer Black femininity, this collection centers those who are discontent with love,... Read More

Paul Martineau and Ryan Linkof’s evocative photographic history "Queer Lens" chronicles queer representation in the medium. Arguing that representation is instrumental to visibility, this book says that photography “queered” the... Read More