These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. t should come as no surprise that, as a writer of , I’m also a voracious reader of them. My house is filled with LGBTQ+ novels, poetry, memoirs, zines, essays, plays, short fiction, and much more.
I recently and my wife’s reading collection subsequently married my own, so now we have double the stacks. You name a gay book and it’s probably somewhere in our home, just waiting to be picked up and loved again. As a queer person who lives in a state (and where a slew of laws attempt to silence and oppress LGBTQ+ people), I believe it’s important to champion queer narratives.
So much beauty can be found in our stories, and I want to see our community reflected in the world. The list below is not a compilation of my all-time favorites, because that would be too many books to count. Instead, I’ve provided a wide sampling of some of the work that has caught my attention (and my heart) as a queer reader.
It’s meant to tempt myriad tastes when it comes to LGBTQ+ reading fare, and I hope you’ll pick up one or several of these books this . Of course, just a loving reminder that you can read queer all year. There’s no wrong time to read across the rainbow.
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s debut novel tracks the summer travels of two housemates, Bernie and Leah, as they get to know each other and process wha.