Books

Trans author Casey Plett’s debut story collection is reissued and finally back in print

“A Safe Girl to Love” sees the award-winning author grappling with her transition through literary fiction

By Veronica Esposito

Books

The swimming pool is a place of escape, competition and a teenage crush in Jade Song’s debut novel, ‘Chlorine’

REVIEW: Narrating as a future mermaid, Jade Song’s protagonist is a prickly queer who holds readers at a distance

By H Felix Chau Bradley

Xtra News Flash

‘Willow’ cancelled, historic Hanlan’s, Australia rallies, tracking celebrity allies and a Michigan librarian reads censors to filth

5 queer and trans news stories to follow: March 17

By Maddy Mahoney

Books

In this debut story collection from Anuja Varghese, horror and shame commingle with joy and transformation

REVIEW: With “Chrysalis,” Anuja Varghese’s protagonists reject fairy-tale lives, embracing the unexpected

By H Felix Chau Bradley

Books

Online-famous writer Aurora Mattia intertwines reality and fiction in ‘The Fifth Wound’

REVIEW: The excesses of Aurora Mattia’s debut novel are also part of what makes it real

By Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

Queer Culture Catch-Up

In praise of queer dumplings and other miraculous creations from Nakhane, Ryan Ken and more

S. Bear Bergman serves up a feast of love and understanding

By S. Bear Bergman

Censorship

How Russian censorship is going to extreme lengths to make the gays disappear

From “The White Lotus” to “Sex and the City,” Russian censors are hell-bent on gutting pop culture

By Mikhail Gillman

Books

Margot Douaihy’s lesbian nun-turned-detective is the star of the first novel from Gillian Flynn’s new imprint

REVIEW: “Scorched Grace” launches the unapologetic career of Sister Holiday

By H Felix Chau Bradley

Mental Health

Trans and queer folks can’t solely rely on our resilience to survive

Perhaps LGBTQ2S+ writers, creatives and historians can teach us how to do more than just get by

By Leigh Hendrix

Books

A haunted house is a metaphor for right-wing terror in Alison Rumfitt’s frightening new novel

REVIEW: The modern gothic thriller “Tell Me I’m Worthless” grapples with how fascist tendencies urge us turn on each other

By Grace Byron

Books

Jamie Diaz, in prison for almost 30 years and an artist almost 50, at last publishes her first comic book

Jamie Diaz discovered her queerness and artistry at the same time—probably not a coincidence

By Kerry Manders

Books

Men in dresses? Dame Joan Collins may have finally learned to hold her tongue

In her latest memoir, actress, author and gay icon Joan Collins shares her thoughts on fashion and the legacy of “Dynasty”

By Matthew Hays

Censorship

North Dakota book ban could imprison librarians who stock queer literature

Proposed legislation is the latest in a slew of anti-LGBTQ2S+ book-bannings across the United States

By Eve Cable

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Kick off 2023 with comedian Pink Foxx, Sapphic crooning and a comics documentary

Queer Culture Catch-Up is back with picks to usher in a new year

By S. Bear Bergman

Censorship

Meet the historian who is driving a bus full of banned queer books across the U.S.

Eric Cervini is turning a school bus into a library of queer literature

By Sarah Prager

Books

How the death of a lover inspired Lauren John Joseph’s compelling debut novel

Artist, performer and writer Lauren John Joseph talks about getting beyond mere trans representation

By Nour Abi-Nakhoul

Censorship

This Texas city is privatizing its library after a dispute over LGBTQ2S+ books

With book bans and restrictions at an all-time high, studies show that 33 percent of challenged books in the U.S. have queer themes or characters

By Maddy Mahoney

Books

‘I’m so queer I’m not even gay.’ A new biography of Kathy Acker paints a picture of a troublemaker on the page and in life

REVIEW: Kathy Acker was the kind of writer who’d perform sex acts in public; author Jason McBride captures her raucous life in his new biography

By Nour Abi-Nakhoul