In 1979, over 100,000 LGBTQ+ individuals and allies gathered in Washington, D.C., turning local activism into a national movement for equality. Figures like Audre Lorde and the Salsa Soul Sisters made a lasting impact. Let's revisit the first National March for Gay and Lesbian Rights. #LGBTQ

🌈📚 📖 Room to Dream by Quinn Ward @quinnwardwrites.bsky.social cozy small-town MM romance found family, a secret-keeping single dad, forced proximity renovations, & the kind of happily ever after that makes a house feel like home Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/979... #booksky #queerbooks

🌈📚 📖 Backhanded Compliments by Katie Chandler @katie-chandler.bsky.social A steamy sapphic romance with a fantastical twist about two bitter tennis rivals who realize they are reluctant soulmates Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks

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“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

🌈🎧📚 📖 Where There's Room for Us by Hayley Kiyoko In a reimagined 1880s Victorian England, Ivy and Freya are caught between desire and duty. How much are they willing to risk to be true to themselves—and to each other? Affiliate Link www.libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook

🌈📚 📖 According to Plan by Christen Randall @bycrandall.bsky.social queer romance about self-discovery, finding your person, and carving out a space for yourself in unexpected places Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #ya

Well, here we go: a fresh new printing of Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? and a new follow up booklet from Public Collectors: What You Agents Are Doing In Your Hotels. Both are now available ($6.00 each): halfletterpress.com/what-you-age... halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...

🌈 Introducing our exclusive special edition of The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair! A story about the power of unleashed desire, the courage it takes to change, and a love so vast it spans the sea, earth, and sky. 🧵

🌈📚 📖 Get Over It, April Evans by Ashley Herring Blake @ashleyhblake.bsky.social A summer job at a lake-town resort brings together two women with an unlikely connection in this new contemporary romance Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks

🌈🎧📚 📖 Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy @maigadoocy.bsky.social impulsive sorcerer & his curmudgeonly rival venture deep into a magical forest in search of a counterspell that can break the curse between them Affiliate Link www.libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook

IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️ More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)

The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, announced that they're shutting down their books section. We'd say "ironic," but... Keep supporting indie bookstores and public libraries over the mega retailer, aka the institutions that actually care about storytelling 💓

⛰️🧵 Colorado! Great thread about taking the steps to get the elected officials we want into office 👇 🔥 In order to participate in the Democratic Caucus, you must be registered as a Democrat on February 8th. You can check (and change) your party affiliation here www.coloradosos.gov/voter/pages/...

🌈🎧📚 📖 Paper Bullets Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets” Affiliate Link www.libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #audiobook

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” ― Robert Fulghum, True Love

📖 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #politics #memoir

🌈📚 📖 Missing Sam by Thrity Umrigar A tense and twisty story of a woman who goes missing on a morning run and her wife's determination to both find her and clear her own name Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #mystery

Queer libraries, hidden in homes, shops, and catalogs, formed a bold resistance network. From Hirschfeld’s destroyed books to ONE Magazine’s legal triumph and the Lesbian Herstory Archives, discover how these narratives endured. Today's book bans make this battle crucial. #QueerHistory #LGBTQ

“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

🌈🎧📚 *On Sale $4.99* 🤑 📖 So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole @wordsiren.bsky.social Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland Affiliate Link www.libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook #ya

🌈📚 📖 You'll Never Forget Me by Isha Raya a struggling actress beginning to enjoy the life sheʼs always wanted after inadvertently killing her rival—but now she must contend with the woman who threatens to take it all away Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #crime

🌈📚 📖 Burn Down Master's House: A Novel by Clay Cane @claycane.bsky.social Inspired by true, long-buried stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, a searing portrayal of resistance Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory

“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

🌈📚 📖 Galapagos by Fátima Vélez & Translated by Hannnah Kauders bohemian artists who are dying of AIDS as they embark on a surreal final voyage through the Galapagos Islands, their bodies cloaked in the skins of the dead Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks

🌈🎧📚$3.99 *Sale ends in 18 hours* 🤑 📖 The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang @slhuang.com Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice They’re also murderers thieves smugglers & cutthroats They could bring down an empire Affiliate Link www.libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook

⛰️ COLORADO PEEPS! CORRN is getting swamped with third-hand rumors. Here are some things to keep in mind before calling CORRN to report an ICE sighting. 👇 coloradorapidresponsenetwork.com

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

🌈📚 📖 Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow... "A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love." Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #fantasy #romance

Before apps, The Damron Guide was a covert travel book helping LGBTQ+ people find safety and community. This episode tells the daring story of Bob Damron, a gay bar owner who secretly charted queer sanctuaries across America—a tale of history, heart, and pride. #LGBTQHistory #Pride

Protests and other ways to speak out against the feds...and help out immigrants. https://www.westword.com/news/denver-protests-strikes-business-responses-against-ice-40836696/

🌈📚 📖 The Wolf and His King: Deluxe Limited Edition by Finn Longman @finnlongman.com A noble knight hiding the beast inside. A lonely king isolated by his courtiers. queer retelling of Bisclavret the werewolf Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #romance #fantasy

AJ Writer gave us this great episode about Casey McQuiston's book, One Last Stop. I think most people know another of Casey's books, Red White & Royal Blue. It was a really good conversation. I wish Casey had been able to join. Please recommend to your Trans friends thisqueerbook.com/one-last-stop/

“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.” ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

🌈🎧📚 📖 A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present. Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook #nonfiction

🌈🎧📚 📖 Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook #nonfiction

🌈📚 Pre-Order Party! 🦄 📖 Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell @everinamaxwell.bsky.social The perfect soldier would never betray her orders, no matter how much she starts to question her command. Would she? Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #fantasy #romance

🌈📚 📖 Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth THE INDIE BESTSELLER Tackling topics of queer identity, teenage angst, and religious guilt, this romantic novel burns with the intensity and yearning of first love Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks

🌈📚 📖 You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman a bisexual teen's struggle when academic success and romantic happiness pull him in opposite directions Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #ya

Want more audiobooks? (Obviously.) Want to support a great cause? (Double obviously.) 🎧 Tomorrow, you can bid on 12 audiobook credits in support of Publishing for Minnesota, an auction raising funds to support immigrant communities and those most impacted by ICE ⏬

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about FATE'S BANE by C.L. Clark. A fantasy novella in a world of feuding clans and sinking swamps, this potent lesbian love story is a barbed and gutting sawblade. Powerful work! Our drink is the Fen, a peaty perfectly balanced treat.

🌈🎧📚 $4.99 * Sale ends in 6 days * 🤑 📖 When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley @venessakelley.bsky.social a young man goes through a journey of love & self-discovery after capturing a merman Affiliate Link www.libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook #cozy #fantasy

🌈📚 📖 Amelia, If Only by Becky Albertalli "crushes, friendships, and finding love in unexpected places" If only Amelia could talk her best friends into making it the perfect last hurrah before graduation Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #romance #ya

🌈📚 📖 No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben "a rock opera of murder, sex, and tourism" Three American gay men travel to Ghana to pay homage to their enslaved ancestors and explore the country's queer underground scene Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks

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Thought Stonewall was the start of LGBTQ resistance? Reconsider. In 1959, in LA, brave queer individuals wielded coffee cups and courage outside a donut shop, igniting a revolution. This is the tale of the Cooper’s Donuts Uprising, deserving of more recognition. #LGBTQHistory #CoopersDonuts

“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

🌈🎧📚 $3.99 * Sale ends in 4 days * 🤑 📖 Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti @alexandravasti.bsky.social A pair of Gothic novelists trade rivalry for love in this swoony, steamy, sapphic regency romance Affiliate Link www.libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook

🌈🎧📚 📖 Confounding Oaths by Alexis Hall @quicunquevult.bsky.social A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone awry in this swoon-worthy romance Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook #romance