reviews, releases and recommendations of LGBT media
New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the rules of our releases posts are clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of those posts, for genres listed below, and we update each one every month with new books coming out (that we know about). Every post covers half a year.
In this one, you can browse the mystery and thriller books from January to June of 2023!
Looking for the other genres?
New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the rules of our releases posts are clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of those posts, for genres listed below, and we update each one every month with new books coming out (that we know about). Every post covers half a year.
In this one, you can browse the historical books from January to June of 2023!
Looking for the other genres?
New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the rules of our releases posts are clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of those posts, for genres listed below, and we update each one every month with new books coming out (that we know about). Every post covers half a year.
In this one, you can browse the fantasy books from January to June of 2023!
Looking for the other genres?
New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the rules of our releases posts are clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of those posts, for genres listed below, and we update each one evekarry month with new books coming out (that we know about). Every post covers half a year.
In this one, you can browse the contemporary books from January to June of 2023!
Looking for the other genres?
As ever, this is an incredibly difficult post to write. There were so many good books we both read in the year, that picking only 10 each was a challenge. In the end, I (Charlotte), at least, had to go by the criteria: a) did it stick with me?, and b) how well was it crafted. Tricky criteria still, but it helped.
Once again, we have divided our list into 3 categories: backlist books, books released in 2022 & books to be released in 2023 that we read ARCs of (and, in one case, a 2024 book). Each of these categories, would you believe it, actually has 5 books. For once, we’ve managed to stick to our original plans! (Though there are so many books we still missed out, some of which we featured in our little advent calendar thread we did through December.)
But anyway. Here’s our list of our favourite 25 books of the year! If you want to have a look at the last few years of lists (and how our tastes have or haven’t changed), you can find them here: from 2018, from 2019, from 2020, and from 2021.
This year this is a very short post. We weren’t really watching a lot, let alone LGBT media. How that happened? Who knows! Maybe next year will be our year and we’ll finally become actual connoisseurs of gay cinema?
Do you want to check out what we loved in 2021? Here’s the post. Otherwise, enjoy!
Christmas celebrations start tomorrow (if you’re Slavic, like me), and so I am finally here with a bunch of movies (and shows) you can watch to get in the mood! And if you don’t celebrate, you might still enjoy some winter-y silliness & gay kisses.
Funnily enough, though, some of my favourite gay Christmas movies are actually in Part I of this rec list, which I made last year. I strongly encourage you to check that out, too!
Suffering through the shortest days of the year as we northern hemisphere folk are, what better rec list for these long winter nights than cosy fantasy. Snuggle up with a blanket and watch the snow fall outside as these books warm your soul. It’s a tried and trusted method, believe me!
Before we start, though, let me just mention that our awards start tomorrow at 10am GMT! Nominations run until 4th January, so if you’re looking to support the great LGBT lit published this year, check it out.
A lot of these titles are available on Scribd, so if you want to check out that service but don’t have an account yet, use my invite code to get 2 months for free! (This also gives me one free month.)
While we’re waiting for Cameron’s newest book – Cassidy is Queen – to come out in June, you can always read about their journey to becoming an author, and a dream team of characters they’d collect from all their books to fight zombies together.
And don’t forget: you can follow Cameron on twitter too!
The Goodreads Choice Awards have come and gone and if, perchance, you thought to yourself huh, where are the Reads Rainbow Awards, well here will be your answer! This being the fourth year of the awards, we decided now is the time to break away from the tyranny of the Goodreads Choice Awards and timing ours alongside, and we’ll do it a different way. So, this is a post to explain just that!
I last did one of these posts way back in January, which means I’ve surely read enough books since then to make another one! That’s how this works, right? Anyway, on this post, as the title suggests, you’ll find 25 books with less than 400 ratings on Goodreads (that being a semi-randomly selected metric by which I’ll judge “underrated”). Maybe you’ve heard of some, maybe you haven’t. Whatever the case, have at it!
And don’t forget, you can also check out the previous posts: find the first post here, the second one here, the third one here, and the fourth one here.
This post could have a lot of different titles, to be frank: gay romances, gay melodramas… But really, it’s just a compilation of movies with gay love at their centre. Hence the title I actually settled on. (And of course, achillean as the more inclusive term, since there’s a few bi characters or ones who don’t really use labels.)
The first movie I thought of for this rec list was Moonlight, so that should tell you all you need to know about it.
In case you missed it, last week the fabulous cover for The Faithless was revealed. If you haven’t seen the cover already, I’m not going to say a word more, because I don’t think there’s a way to prepare you for it, at all, but also. Just look at it. Just look.
And after all that, if you’re impatiently waiting for next March, well, maybe this interview can sate your appetite just a bit. And don’t forget: you can follow Cherae on twitter too!
It’s November’s music and that means holiday songs are slowly trickling in, guys! I even sneaked one into the post itself! (If you already want more, I made a whole playlist!) But anyway, all the LGBT songs I know of from last month are in the playlist at the end of this post. And below you will find 10 songs I want to highlight!
Want more music? Check out the previous monthly posts right here!
We open this wrap up with the news that it’ll be our penultimate one. That’s not to say we won’t be doing something similar still, but just not here on the blog. In fact, we’re transferring it over to a newsletter! The first of those went out yesterday and you can read it here (and subscribe maybe?). Instead of being simply a list of everything we read or watched, and posted, it’ll be a little more interesting than that, our favourites of the month, things we’ve seen that we want to highlight, and more besides.
But in the meantime, we’ll finish off 2022 in wrap ups at least, alongside the first couple of newsletters. So, here’s November’s for you to enjoy (maybe).
