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    A Goodbye

    1 January, 2025

    Some news for you to start 2025: we’ve decided that we’ll be closing the blog. It’s been 5 years of blogging and, as you might have guess, we’ve been steadily running out of content ideas (and motivation) for the past year or so. So, while we still have some energy, we’re calling it quits. We’ve grown with this blog over the last few years: our reading tastes perhaps changed and our reading habits most definitely have. But the publishing landscape also developed, maybe just not as much as we would all have wanted. Still, it’s easier to find books with LGBT representation than it was just five years ago when we first started this adventure. So we’re leaving you in your own capable hands now (with a few pointers for how we found most of the books on our lists).

    Reads Rainbow is going to remain up as an archive, and we’ll still add books to our 2025 list if you email us about them, but we will no longer be posting on here (the newsletter is another matter, should we ever feel a sudden urge to recommend, so you can still follow that if you wish). We will also be making our 2024, 2025, and 2026 onwards lists available for everyone to browse (scroll to the end of this post for that!), but they won’t be updated all that regularly.

    We’ve had a super fun time blogging for the past 5 years, but the last year or so has… let’s say tested our ability to come up with new rec lists and content. We hope that, over the years, you’ve found some good books to read, some new music to listen to, and great films to watch! If you ever want recs, you will still be able to find us on various social medias, or via email, so feel free to get in touch.

    So, for one last time, let us leave you with a few quick links!

    2024 releases posts

    Books by month | Music by month | YA (Jan-Jun) | YA (Jul-Dec) | sapphic (Jan-Jun) | sapphic (Jul-Dec) | trans & nonbinary | MG & picture books

    2024 releases | 2025 releases | 2026 and beyond

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    Misc Media Recs: Podcasts, Webseries & Webcomics (I)

    18 May, 2020

    At the beginning of the month, I got really into podcasts, because they gave me something to listen to while I was playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Or rather, one podcast. Because this list was initially supposed to be only podcasts, with a few webseries thrown in.

    Instead… Well, you can see what it is instead.

    But anyway. Sometimes you just need an easily and rapidly consumable shot of LGBT media, hence why on this post you can find recs for podcasts, webseries and webcomics. And this will be an ongoing series too.

    If you enjoyed any of these recs, please do support the creators however you can (Patreon, Tapas, etc — there should be links on websites, hopefully, or at least links to the creators’ pages).

    So, pick your content and let’s go!

    PODCASTS | WEBSERIES | WEBCOMICS

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    The Great Big Thank You Post

    9 October, 2019

    About 10 days back, we celebrated our first birthday for this blog. And in typical us, slapdash and hurried fashion, we completely failed to time our celebration posts at all reasonably. So, if you’re wondering why this great big thank you post is coming last, a good week after our actual blogiversary. Well. Yeah. Just pretend like we didn’t confess to how unprofessional this whole operation is. (Spoiler alert: adulthood is not fun, do not grow up kids!)

    Anyway. Before we start this post, here’s a reminder of the guests we’ve featured over the past week!

    🌻 Shri wrote about coming to terms with being bi. 🌻
    🌻 Gabhi wrote about her experiences with coming out. 🌻
    🌻 Amrita wrote about finding representation in Malinda Lo’s books. ðŸŒ»
    🌻 Kayla wrote about the importance of found family & background LGBT characters. ðŸŒ»
    🌻 Lou wrote about finding the right person to create comics with. ðŸŒ»

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    Book Tag: I Should Have Read That Book

    15 May, 2019

    We were tagged by the amazing Cam @ Camillea Reads! Inspired by her Asian Pacific Heritage Month themed post, we’re also going to mix things up a little, and make sure every book we have on here is an LBGT one. Well, it’s just what is expected from us and from this blog, isn’t it? We wouldn’t want to disappoint you guys! And also, we just really love to talk about LGBT books…

    RULES

    🌺 Thank the person who tagged you and link back to their post
    🌺 Answer the questions below
    🌺 Tag 10 others to take part
    🌺 ENJOY THE TAG!

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    Bloggers Recognition Award

    10 May, 2019

    Someday in April Shri @ Sun and Chai nominated us for this award which we are very grateful for & very honored by! Thank you, Shri! Shri is a big fan of fantasy books and specifically diverse fantasy books, so head over to her blog whenever you feel a void in your heart that a great sff book could fill!

    And now quickly the rules:

    • Thank the blogger that nominated you.
    • Write a post to show your award.
    • Give a brief story of how your blog started.
    • Give two pieces of advice to new bloggers.
    • Select 15 other bloggers you want to give this award to.
    • Comment on each blog and let them know you have nominated them and provide the link to the post you created.
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    About the Bloggers: Q&A

    12 January, 2019

    You asked (kind of), so we’re delivering! Well, actually… We asked if you want to ask & then you did. But it counts, right? It’s almost like this whole post was your idea!

    Hopefully you will have as much fun reading our answers as we did answering your questions in the first place! 💛💚

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    An Introduction

    29 September, 2018

    Welcome to Reads Rainbow

    a blog dedicated to LGBT media, where we aim to give you reviews, recs and information about new releases!

    A little bit about the blog: we hope to provide you with reviews of already released books, films and tv shows, as well as offering rec lists and keeping you apprised of new LGBT releases. We want to primarily consider ownvoices media, but we will also be reviewing non-ownvoices media, and reccing those we think are good. We will also try to indicate where the media is diverse in other ways, and whether that is ownvoices representation or not.

    ABOUT ANNA 

    (twitter @ heresthepencil)

    Hi, I’m Anna! I’m a 30 year old lesbian from Poland and I work full-time at a city hall. Nowadays I usually read YA literature (I might be old, but the feelings described in those books are relatable to all & somehow more real than in adult lit) and more specifically contemporary books, with some sff thrown in every once in a while. I’m also very big on poetry. The list of my favourite authors is quite long but to name just a few: Melina Marchetta, Natasha Pulley, Kayla Ancrum, Brandon Sanderson, and for poets: Ocean Vuong, Richard Siken, Ada Limón, Sappho, Kaveh Akbar.

    ABOUT CHARLOTTE

    (twitter @ mahitdzmare)

    Hi, I’m Charlotte! I’m 22 and studying for my Masters degree in Sport Psychology this year. My reading oscillates between finishing something in a day, maybe two, and not finishing it for months on end. (There really is no in-between.) My favourite genres are historical mystery and fantasy (and probably also sports fiction, now I think about it). Some of my favourite authors are Patrick Ness, Melina Marchetta, and Megan Whalen Turner. I also blog over at tealeafreads.

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