This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

🌈📚 📖 A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social a riotous Regency romp, featuring a charming and unforgettable genderfluid lead Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/979... #booksky #queerbooks #romance

🌈🎧📚 📖 For the Fans by Nyla K They never even wanted to be stepbrothers—but now, in front of the camera, they're getting much closer—in this edgy, emotional story of forbidden passion. Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook #romance

🌈📚 📖 Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker & Illustrated by Wendy Xu A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. "Mooncakes is that spellbinding, magical-girl queer romance you’ve been looking for." Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #ya #graphicnovel

NEW PODCAST EP: Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ Special guests @peppermint247.bsky.social & Zander Schlacter connect with Lambda Legal counsel Carl Charles on what trans visibility means & how identity docs can be affirming in the latest ep of "Making The Case!" Watch now: lambdalegal.lgbt/3ektuny8

Wanted to share work by Wendy Carlos, a transgender classical artist and composer. Feels appropriate to share today, given... ::gestures wildly at surroundings:: #TransgenderDayofVisibility #LGBT #Trans

Want more trans visibility today? I got you. Here's Breanna Sinclairé, singing those high notes! Breanna talks about celebration and success, and feels like we need a little bit of that motivation today to keep going. #TransgenderDayofVisibility #LGBT #LGBTQIA

HAPPY LAUNCH DAY! Our Kickstarter for DUCKS IN A ROW and DUXXX IN A ROW has gone live. Over 40 stories by our queer creators, collected in two lovely volumes for the first time. Check out the campaign, and boosts of this post are very appreciated! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... 🌈📚 📚💙

Join us for RESISTANCE ZINES: a virtual workshop hosted by Sarah Evanson on 3/31 @ 6 pm Central Time. Registration is donation-based. 15% of donations will go towards the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. For more details and to register visit: bit.ly/4c2waWM

Out now! "Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive" by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social is a zombie story unlike any zombie story you've ever read. It's a harrowing and beautiful study of girlhood, growing up, and survival. Let it break your heart today. 🪐🗡️ Read here: othersidespec.com/pieces/curri...

Psst - don't forget that you can take 40% off audiobooks in our playlist featuring stories by trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary authors with code TRR26 😍 Ends tomorrow! Link to the playlist ⏬

#TodayInQueerHistory 29 March (2009) Bookshops are incredible spaces, and queer bookshops have been vital lifelines and community hubs. #OTD, the Oscar Wilde Bookshop in NYC closes; citing the financial depression and competition from online retailers. It was founded by Craig Rodwell in 1967.

Wooo. Sales for the trans day of visibility bundle are going excellently. Over a 100 bundles sold already! Thank you everyone! If you haven't grabbed it yet, there's still 2 days left. itch.io/b/3594/tdov-...

Here are all the Solaris Books you can request on Netgalley this spring! New titles from @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @neuvel.net @pennyvixen.bsky.social @corryllee.bsky.social @shaykauwe.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social Caskey Russell & more! https://geni.us/SolarisNG

I hear we’re talking about Sapphic Regency romance Ahem — how about with witches, too? Why wait? No controversy here. Just lots of chemistry across social orders and a very fabulous carriage ride… bookshop.org/p/books/neth...

ICYMI: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 👇

🌈📚 📖 Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You by Julián Delgado Lopera A perfectly calibrated novel that captures the gritty contours of masculinity and homophobia in Colombia through lush, lyric, and irresistible prose. Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks

🌈📚 📖 Honor & Heresy by Max Francis atmospheric, gothic, dark academic fantasy of two scholars racing each other to find answers to an invasion in a haunted library Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks

🌈🎧📚 📖 Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall @quicunquevult.bsky.social A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this irresistible sapphic romance Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook #fantasy

🌈📚 📖 Reclaiming Two-Spirits Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory Smithers A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #history #politics

🌈📚 📖 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

🌈📚 📖 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

🌈🎧📚 📖 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

🌈🎧📚 📖 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

🌈📚 📖 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

🌈📚 📖 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

🌈📚 📖 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

🌈📚 📖 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

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

Book bans and conservative policies targeting LGBTQ students have gotten less attention this year, but these are at issue in pivotal school board elections next month in Alaska, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. Our guide breaks it all down.

Queer South-East-Asian-inspired epic fantasy! 16 hours to go, and only 4 backers from 100? Can we get R.D. to 100 backers before the final whistle? Have a look if this sounds like your kinda read! Tyranny! Magic! Rebellion! www.kickstarter.com/projects/rdp...

Reminder that 3 of my books are free for the duration of the #TransRightsReadathon ! Each of these features at least 1 prominent trans character. 🩸 books2read.com/silverblood 💫 books2read.com/solaceofstars ☀️ books2read.com/meliora Also on itch: tallimorgan.itch.io

In preparation for the April 10 Lantern Parade, Concrete Couch will be hosting Lantern building workshops this week at the Manitou Arts Center. pikespeakbulletin.org/featurednews...

🌈 In collaboration with Tavia Lark @tavialark.bsky.social , Rainbow Crate is pleased to announce our reprint of Prince & Assassin and sequel special editions of Prince in Disguise and Prince & Pawn! 🧵 Note: This is a digital mockup and finished copies may differ slightly.

"I sure wish I could find any books with an autistic demisexual earl who is also, deep down, an eldritch horror and simultaneously a cinnamon roll, especially if he falls in love with a bisexual American pagan florist who is also a heroin addict!" OMFG you're not gonna believe this!

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! We have a handful of shop updates for you today! There are some new single additions to shop from the January RC and the February RAD box. 🧵 📷: Thanks to @/LittleMissStar55 on IG for the photo!

Anyway everybody go read 'Everyone Keeps Saying Probably' and then tell me to get back to work, daylight's a-burnin' psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...

🌈📚 📖 Winging It with You by Chip Pons @chippons.bsky.social Catching flights . . . and feelings. "Everything you’d ever want a rom com to be.” Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #romance #romcom

🌈📚 📖 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

🌈📚 📖 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

🌈🎧📚 📖 Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian @catswrites.bsky.social A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series. Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook

On this day in LGBTQ+ history, March 21, 1804: The Napoleonic Code was enacted, effectively legalizing same-sex relationships. #LGBTQHistory #NapoleonicCode

Did you know that one of the longest-running sci-fi series has been a hidden gem for LGBTQ+ representation? From flirtatious Time Agents to openly lesbian companions, Doctor Who has been shattering queer barriers for years—often in ways you might not have realized! #DoctorWho #LGBTQ

$5 Weekend Books are back! A portion of our sales this weekend will be donated to the legal aid of the Prairieland Defendants. Shop these $5 titles all weekend long here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

🏳️‍🌈 Our authors are built differently. 📚 So are their stories. 👊 Bywater Books—where words ignite. ➡️ Check us out today: //bywaterbooks.com #BookSky

Her pen name was Lisa Ben — an anagram of "lesbian." In 1947, she created America's first lesbian magazine on stolen office time. 🏳️‍🌈 #QueerHistory #LGBTQ

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

Our most recent episode dropped on Tuesday: Jake brought us Will Grayson, Will Grayson and author David Levithan joined the conversation. Jake is the founder of the QT Library in Boston. We had met him during our event in Brooklyn two years ago. Highly Recommended!! thisqueerbook.com/will-grayson/

You know what's great? Short stories. Especially queer short stories. Check out the Queer Short Story Tasting Menu bundle over on itchio! My bittersweet short, Immortality in the Marrow is included! 12 stories for $10! That's less than a dollar per story! Get it below! ⬇️ itch.io/b/3577/queer...

🏈 Our second book for May is The Endgame by Riley Hart @rileyhart.bsky.social . A night out at a DC bar wasn’t supposed to change everything for Anson. But meeting Weston has him questioning his choices, especially keeping his sexuality a secret.