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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
With their new book, writer Huw Lemmey and academic Ben Miller are bringing their fascinating—and very funny—deep dives into the lives of the most dastardly queer people in history from the podcast to the page.
Bad Gaysoffers a riveting look back at historical figures whom the present-day LGBTQ+ community might be less eager to reclaim, from outrig.
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Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez
This debut essay collection is being marketed as “part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree,” and really, how can you come up with a more inviting description than that.
Gutiérrez tells a singular and inimitable set of stories in Brown Neon,focusing much of the collection on the physical land that has alternately susta.
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Greenland by David Santos Donaldson
At the beginning of David Santos Donaldson’s debut novel, Greenland,its narrator, Kip—a Black British expat studying in New York—holes himself up in his basement study to churn out his first book in three weeks.
The book in question is based on the life of Mohammed el Adl, E.M.
Forster’s young Egyptian lover, and Kip begins to find his grip on real.
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Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell
In this first novel from the acclaimed comedian and writer behind the hit Netflix show Special, Ryan O’Connell draws on his personal experiences as a queer man with cerebral palsy to the same humorous effect that has drawn him legions of fans—but with a whole lot of heart too.
Just by Looking at Himis written from the perspective of a gay, disabled.
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Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Originally published by Topside Press in 2013, Binnie’s debut novel—which follows a young, punk-aspiring trans woman who heads west from New York City in her ex-girlfriend’s stolen car, attempting to play the fraught role of role model to a younger, not-yet-out acolyte she meets in Nevada—is a beautiful and occasionally disturbing complication of t.
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So Happy For You by Celia Laskey
Laskey excels at writing queer fiction that dazzles in its simplicity, and this latest effort—which follows a queer academic roped into serving as maid of honor at her childhood best friend’s wedding, only to find out that the bridal party is, well, stacked against her, to say the least—is no exception.
We’ve too often sullied the term “beach read,.
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The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran
One of gay literature’s most esteemed titans, Andrew Holleran, returns this month with his first novel in 16 years, The Kingdom of Sand.
While Holleran’s cult classic, Dancer from the Dance, is remembered for the illicit thrills of its hedonistic roller-coaster ride through gay life in 1970s New York (during the free-spirited moment after Stonewall.
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Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill
James Cahill’s first novel, Tiepolo Blue,charts a heady summer in 1990s Britain in the life of Don, an esteemed art history professor at Cambridge whose life is turned upside down after a radical contemporary artwork is placed in the quad of his college.
A roller-coaster ride through the seedier corners of gay London follows, as Don’s journey of se.
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X by Davey Davis
What if the world were ending and we were all just walking around Brooklyn listening to podcasts.
That’s more or less the mise-en-scène for Davis’s Lee, who works for a major corporation by day and frequents warehouse parties by night.
In this dystopian yet all-too-imaginable read, a new friend of Lee’s goes missing around a U.S.-led purge of migra.
A series of practices that reimagine nature, biology, and sexuality in the light of queer theory
Queer ecology is the endeavor to understand nature, biology, and sexuality in the light of queer theory, thus rejecting the presumption that heterosexuality and cisgenderedness constitute any objective standard.
It draws from science studies, ecofeminism, environmental justice, and queer geography.
These perspectives break apart various extiw>dualisms that exist within human understandings of nature and culture.
