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Panic at the disco: A new novel examines the queer mid-life crisis in a uniquely beautiful way

I Make Envy on Your Disco follows a gay man navigating an existential crisis against the lush, electric backdrop of Berlin.

Maupin revisits aging hippies of 'Tales of the City' in new novel

Armistead Maupin says he never intended to write another installment of his popular Tales of the City series. But thankfully for fans, Maupin's newest book, Michael Tolliver Lives, revisits many of the same larger-than-life characters that propelled Tales from a weekly San Francisco Chronicle column to six books and a Showtime mini-soap opera.

Writer Andrea Lawlor Is a Worthy Successor to Virginia Woolf

Like Orlando, Lawlor's new novel explores the joy, mystery, and terror of gender. 

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Douglas Coupland returns with a hilarious new novel that explores tech culture, Ronald McDonald, lesbian separatists, and the nightmare of being Googled.

Coming Out Fighting

New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr's debut novel is a poignant, semiautobiographical treatise on Hollywood and the hypocrisies of Judaism.

James Bond Goes Gay-Friendly in New Novel

A new James Bond novel shakes and stirs the notoriously anachronistic superspy by giving 007 a gay friend and a live-in girlfriend who used to be a lesbian.

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Queer Girl Dream Team Brings You 'Poison Ivy: Thorns'

Created by two queer women, DC's new "gothic horror" graphic novel brings back one of the most beloved and bewitching queer characters of the Gotham universe.

Anne Rice Announces New Vampire Chronicles Novel

Prince Lestat will be the 11th novel in the long-running series.

Antigay Hate Is Nothing New for Indiana

A new novel-memoir hybrid stirs up a painful past in rural Indiana.

Experience a First Lady's Forbidden Love Affair in 'White Houses'

Amy Bloom's new historical novel tells the love story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok.

Writer Jeanette Winterson Gives a Queer Angle to ‘Frankenstein’

In her new novel, Jeanette Winterson resurrects Frankenstein as a meditation on gender, sexuality, and what it means to be human in the 21st century.

A New Mystery Describes Secret Gay Lives in Post-World War II America

John Copenhaver's new novel Dodging and Burning weaves a fanciful tale of war, murder, and the closet. Read an exclusive excerpt below.

Star Wars' First Out Character

May 4th is not only Star Wars Day, but a time of diversity in a galaxy far, far away, as the first LGBT character is introduced in a new novel.

An Excerpt From Jennifer Finney Boylan's New Thriller

The iconic trans advocate and author is wowing critics with her new novel, Long Black Veil. See how Boylan gets the action started in this exclusive excerpt.

First Look at DC's New YA Graphic Novel 'Poison Ivy: Thorns'

Author Kody Keplinger calls it "an angsty gothic romance complete with creepy plants, a big spooky house, and two girls kissing."

Alex Sanchez's New Gay Y.A. Novel Reimagines a DC Comic Superhero

Set in the DC universe, the gay Mexican author focuses on a young queer boy with special abilities in smalltown New Mexico. 

The New Queer Canon: 'Cantoras' by Carolina De Robertis

The masterful new novel by Carolina De Robertis is the year's most exciting addition to the queer canon.

The Role of Apartheid in the Murder of a Gay South African Teen

The 2011 killing of Raymond Buys -- and the world's first concentration camps -- inspire the new novel by Damian Barr.

A Lesbian Romance That Straights Will Embrace

The new novel When Katie Met Cassidy lets everyone identify with a masculine-presenting queer woman.

Op-ed: When Alzheimer's Strikes One of Us

Lesbian author Sarah Leavitt's new graphic novel, Tangles, looks at the impact of slowing losing a loved one to the disease.

Sex and salvation

Best-selling author E. Lynn Harris takes on boy bands, antigay politics, and African-American megachurches in his new novel