Navigate ideas of lust and desire with Michael Lowenthal’s Sex With Strangers. Set in a rebel art scene, this psychological drama is laced with themes of love and power.

Inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray, the novel features two young girls whose summer of love is threatened by crimes overtaking their town. These poems imagine a braver future that gives queer voices agency over their own stories, and reshape theatrical canon through a queer lens.īe thrilled by a thriller with She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard. The book entails the decades-long chase to find him while celebrating the resilience and vibrancy of the LGBTQ community.Ĭritique the historical representation of queer figures with Kevin Kantor in Please Come Off-Book. This is the true story of the Last Call Killer who preyed upon the gay community in New York City. The collection provides a search for self within every story, showing there is more to life than our own personal narratives.ĭive into a hidden history with Elon Green’s Last Call. This comedic collection of short stories all center around a “Sarah,” whether she be a wayward college student or a fan-fiction loving, romantic obsessive. This memoir investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given.Įxplore Sarahland by Sam Cohen. Read Hari Ziyad’s memoir, Black Boy Out of Time the author lyrically reflects on their past and unpacks their complicated childhood history.

The collection explores the question, how can “queer writers negotiate their feelings of home when their nation has further precluded them from a place of comfort?” Investigate your own concept of “home” in the new anthology Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart edited by Arisa White, Miah Jeffra, and Monique Mero-William. And, as always, there’s new LGBTQ literature. It’s a time for Pisces and Aries to shine. We’re entering Spring warmer weather, a later sunset, and budding plants await us. But I think we can still cultivate some small moments of self-reflection, joy, and adventure. Looking back at the past year, it’s hard to go into March with high spirits.

We thought, or hoped, the pandemic would be over in a few weeks. We were just learning to social distance and adjusting to stay-at-home orders. This time last year was very different, to say the least. Whether you’re still processing the events of March 2020 or not, a new moment is here and we’re living in it.

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