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These books inspire us, give us hope and show that our literary worlds can and should! Instead of just reading gay books during Pride, challenge yourself to expand the diversity of books you read all year long. Read from the Gay Fiction collection of stories on Inkitt.

Books shelved as gay: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman, Aris. The book explores coming out to family, medical trauma that comes as existing as a visible trans person and coming out as asexual.

The Ultimate LGBTQ+ Pride Book List by PRH Editors Celebrate Pride all year long with books by LGBTQ+ authors! We've been independently researching and testing products for over years. There have been few experiences more gay for me as an author than visiting high school and college classrooms and hearing queer students reflect on how meaningful it was to see their lives and stories on the page.

We’re constantly updating our library with the best stories online and in app for readers like you. This book is sure to inspire you to live authentically, regardless of what others say. Actor Elliot Page recounts his journey to understanding his gender in this New York Times bestseller.

This tough but tender novel is about understanding yourself and queerly demanding to be heard. This new story is a fresh take on the book that inspired so many of us. We asked 16 queer authors to share the best LGBTQ books they've ever read.

Consider giving them this book to read and let it open the conversation for you. Add them all to your own TBR list, or pick up a handful gay the perfect gift for the book-lover in your read. In college, Bechdel comes out as a lesbian, at which time she realizes that her father was also gay.

Additional reporting by Lizz Schumer. Learn more about our review process. This is what makes the current wave of read bans targeting queer books even more dangerous. Here are their top recommendations. The book also explores themes of desire and belonging.

It explores his love for her and unpacks the deepest secrets of masculinity, race and class. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. In this beautiful memoir, readers follow a queer Muslim immigrant coming to understand her own identity and sense of gender.

This book is full of intimate stories of his experience starring in the movie Junogoing to a queer bar for the first time, coming out as transgender and the backlash he experienced in Hollywood. And to find even more literature from queer voices, check out our curated collection.

This is a book about self discovery, family secrets and overcoming family trauma and legacies to build your own life. Instead of just reading gay books during Pride, challenge yourself to expand the diversity of books you read all year long.

Exploring your own identities or trying to explain who you are to friends or family? As an out author of fiction and nonfiction books, it is an unnerving time to be writing books about queer and trans lives and experiences.

From inspirational memoirs to irresistible romances, these stories honor the journeys of LGBTQ+ individuals and the larger movement for love, acceptance, and equality for all. In this poetic novel, a son writes a letter to his mother, who cannot read. But this largely corporate visibility during Pride month, known as rainbow washingshouldn't be a day limited engagement, especially as our rights are the gay therapist attack.

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