A gay couple deals with distance and temptation in Floor de Goede’s graphic memoir "Dancing on the Volcano". Flo and Bas have been together for three years, but Flo is visiting the Aeolian Islands and will be apart from Bas for ten... Read More

In "Plain", Mary Alice Hostetter chronicles her formative years within a Mennonite family and her later quest for personal independence. In Pennsylvania, Hostetter and her siblings worked on her parents’ farm. She also helped with... Read More

A classic gay coming-of-age story is adapted to graphic novel format in Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel. Based on an autobiographical 1982 novel, this book spans several decades to tell the tale of Eddie, who, as... Read More

A young woman tries to come to terms with grief in Tanya Turton’s poignant novel "Jade Is a Twisted Green". After the death of her twin sister Roze at age seventeen, Jade fell into a deep, lingering depression. Because she is unable to... Read More

Childhood friends reunite, setting off an exploration into the depths of personhood in João Gilberto Noll’s explicit novel "Hugs and Cuddles". A man boards a submarine with a friend whom he calls “the engineer.” On it, German men... Read More

Funny and LGBTQ+ affirming, "Darts and Flowers" is a story about teenagers who are desperate to be loved, validated, and part of a community. In Dean Backus’s queer, comedic romantic novel "Darts and Flowers", friends reunite, and... Read More

Bigender Charly is having trouble picking a costume for Halloween: Red Riding Hood leaves their boy half lost in the woods, while Dracula sucks the life out of their girl side. The detailed illustrations contrast bold reds with moody... Read More

Touted as “a loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast,” Neil Cochrane’s "The Story of the Hundred Promises" blends fairy tale magic with unabashed “queer optimism.” After ten years, trans sailor Darragh thought he’d left the... Read More