Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

The Red Winter
Queen of Faces (Queen of Faces, #1)
Get Over It, April Evans (Clover Lake, #2)
Out of the Loop
Margin of Error
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
Cleaner
Nightshade and Oak
Gods Beneath the Ice (Blood & Souls Duology #2)
Until the Clock Strikes Midnight
Fireflies in Winter
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die
This Wretched Beauty
To the Death
Just Between Us: A Graphic Novel
We Used to Live Here
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Blue Sisters
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Razorblade Tears
気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Emperor of Gladness
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
All the Way to the River
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
The Lamb
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerLuck in the Shadows by Lynn FlewellingKushiel's Dart by Jacqueline CareyMagic's Pawn by Mercedes LackeyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy
2,073 books — 1,975 voters
Heartstopper by Alice OsemanThe Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen WangNimona by N.D. StevensonHeartstopper by Alice OsemanFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Graphic Novels Featuring LGBTIQ+ Themes
1,060 books — 1,045 voters

Ball & Chain by Abigail RouxKings Rising by C.S. PacatNot So Innocent by Dani AlexanderTake by Ella FrankCross & Crown by Abigail Roux
Can't Wait M/M Romance of 2014
299 books — 1,021 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Price of Salt by Claire  Morgan
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,040 books — 2,708 voters

Captive Prince by C.S. PacatCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatThe Foxhole Court by Nora SakavicCut & Run by Madeleine UrbanKings Rising by C.S. Pacat
Best M/M With An Actual Story
1,547 books — 1,252 voters
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliCarry On by Rainbow RowellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
LGBTQ for YA
1,253 books — 2,288 voters

The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

Related Genres

Related News

Happy Pride Month, fellow Goodreaders! And behold! To mark this annual celebration, we’ve gathered together a collection of brand-new LGBTQ+...
Erwin Schrödinger
By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were. ...Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't. ...more
Erwin Schrödinger, A Life of Erwin Schrödinger

Hubert Selby Jr.
Georgette was a hip queer. She (he) didn't try to disguise or conceal it with marriage and mans talk, satisfying her homosexuality with the keeping of a secret scrapbook of pictures of favorite male actors or athletes or by supervising activities of young boys or visiting turkish baths or mens locker rooms, leering sidely while seeking protection behind a carefully guarded guise of virility (fearing that moment at a cocktail party or in a bar when this front may start crumbling from alcohol and ...more
Hubert Selby Jr.

More quotes...
Philosophy Femmes+ (Online Book Club) Bi-weekly feminist philosophy book club, starting with Donna Haraway's "Companion Species Manife…more
8 members, last active 5 months ago
Goodreads girlies You MUST follow good comment etiquette Nothing else gooddbye and may Bob be with you
8 members, last active 6 months ago
The Sapphic Squad A book group for reading sapphic books and connecting over our often-obscure favorites! At least…more
6,982 members, last active 15 hours ago
Literatura gay portuguesa Grupo sobre os livros e os autores da literatura gay de Portugal.
200 members, last active 4 months ago

Tags

Tags contributing to this page include: queer, queer-stuff, queerinterest, queerness, and queers