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My Favorite Queer Reads! 🏳️🌈 Fiction, Memoirs, Graphic Novels and Manga! ✨
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items Looking to explore queer and trans stories? Then I've got the reads for you! Whether told through essays in a memoir, woven into fictitious characters and an intricate story, or told alongwith stunning art, these queer stories exhibit the reality and...
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Memoirs
Novels
Graphic Novels
Manga
Memoirs
Raw, intimate stories of love, struggle, and acceptance directly from queer people.
This memoir follows Lamya, a queer Muslim person who finds a way to work through her feelings and accept her queer identity through her Muslim identity and the stories of the Quran, despite the world around her telling her it's wrong and not possible...
Hijab Butch Blues
Elliot Page, a trans actor who gained success after his part in the movie Juno, struggled through a lifetime of suffocating repression from a society determined to fit him into a neat little box called a binary. This memoir tells a nonlinear story of...
Pageboy
Dylan Mulvaney became an overnight viral sensation after coming out as a woman online and continued to use her platform for advocacy and empowerment for trans people across the world. However, the right-wing media backlash is quick and violent and br...
Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
Through a series of personal essays, George M. Johnson explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years, weaving together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring te...
All Boys Aren't Blue
Novels
Ficticious and fantastical stories lifting up queer voices in beautifully woven tales.
18-year-old Brian, a young gay man, moved to New York for freedom and release, but when the AIDS epidemic claims his lover, his friends, and his future, he decides to return home to his small hometown in Appalachia to die, the exact place he was so d...
The Prettiest Star
Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, a group of terminally ill teenagers plan a heist to escape far away from abusive parents, crippling loss, and the realities of their diseases. But then a mischievous smile and suns in her eyes joins th...
I Fell in Love with Hope
In a world where one phone call and mean your life is over, two boys attempt to live a lifetime in a single day. Mateo and Rufus both receive the Death-Cast call that they are going to die today and they find themselves on Last Friend, an app designe...
They Both Die at the End
This novel is a sapphic, low-stakes fantasy following a battle-weary orc as she aims to start fresh and open up a coffee shop. But there are forces standing in the way and Vi can't do it alone. And along the way, she finds partners, family, and even ...
Legends & Lattes
Graphic Novels
Queer journeys, big and small, told through and with the help of beautiful art.
This series follows Charlie and Nick, two boys who attend the same school but have never met, until they're made to sit together one day. Soon they are friends and Charlie finds himself hopelessly falling for Nick until they find that Nick is more in...
Heartstopper
This graphic novel follows Aiden, a young boy away at summer camp grappling with his feelings toward a fellow camper, another boy. But his feelings conflict with the mean words that the other boys spew at him and he feels insafe being himself. This i...
Flamer
When Anne learns that her 19-year-old, Alex, is a transgender man, she struggles to understand her son's new identity. It soon becomes clear that Alex is not the only one embarking on a journey of self-discovery. The road is not easy, but Alex is sur...
Transitions: A Mother's Journey
This graphic novel is an elegantly illustrated celebration of the transgender community. When the artist, Rhea, became consumed by the question, "what is gender?" they spiraled into a decades worth of interviewing every queer and trans person they co...
Fine: A Comic About Gender
Manga
Japanese stories about the life and love of queer people with wonderful art.
This series follows four members of an amateur rock band—hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy—as they navigate romantic relationships,...
Given
This series follows Coyote, a werewolf, as he becomes tangled in a forbidden romance when a human pianist catches him in heat and he can't resist the passion. But this affair reveals a dark secret and Coyote must choose between love and family.
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Coyote