From memoirs to fiction, from poetry to YA, queer literature offers more reading options than ever

A queer reader surveys the current crop of Indian and global LGBTQIA+ literature.

Saurabh Sharma

· Feb 26, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘After Sappho’ reimagines the lives of queer artists and activists, from Sappho to Virginia Woolf

Selby Wynn Schwartz’s novel is not just an important re-writing or righting of herstory, or a new view on queer feminists in turn-of-the-century Europe.

Francesca Rendle-Short, The Conversation

· Aug 08, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Want to read about queer teens saving the world or having a rom-com moment? Here are five books

These novels break the genre’s early mould of tragic endings and hardships to tell stories of hope.

Alex Henderson, The Conversation

· Jul 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

For a look at transgender spirituality through an African lens, read Akwaeke Emezi’s ‘Freshwater’

How Nigerian and African diaspora writers are speaking back to homophobia.

Aretha Phiri, The Conversation

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Rocío Cobo-Piñero, The Conversation

· Jun 24, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Michael Field, a 19th century poet with an elite readership, was created by a lesbian couple

Renewed interest in Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper shows that historical icons can be both trailblazers and incorrigibly flawed.

Sarah Parker, The Conversation

· Feb 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

It’s Pride Month, and here are five queer South Asian speculative stories to raise a toast

Science fiction and fantasy writing is no longer openly homophobic.

Mimi Mondal

· Jun 24, 2017 · 06:30 am

From then to now: Five queer women poets whose work must be read today (and every day)

Here, more than ever, the personal is political.

Shinjini Bose

· Nov 13, 2016 · 08:15 am

What is queer? A graphic anthology that will give you some answers

The new issue of the ‘Gaysi Zine’ explores visual stories that try to answer the question.

Shreya Ila Anasuya

· Dec 27, 2015 · 06:30 pm

Gay literature is firmly out of the closet in India, and winning readers over

While legal and societal change is slow, literary championing of the LGBT life is forging ahead.

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Jul 18, 2015 · 01:30 pm