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Tag: LGBTIQ

Best books I’ve read 2025

Maybe my gayest year of reading.

Australian, Classics, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, queer, Year in review

Review: Nock Loose by Patrick Marlborough

Myth-making for a fiction of a nation.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel

Review: Who Was That Man? by Neil Bartlett

Searching for origins.

England, gay, History, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Oscar Wilde, queer, UK

Review: After The Siren by Darcy Green

A romantasy to aspire to.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Romance, Sport

Review: Querelle Of Roberval by Kevin Lambert (translated by Donald Winkler)

A call to arms.

Canada, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: Take It Outside (edited by Cash Torn and Orlando Silver)

Does what it says on the tin.

Erotica, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Trans

Review: Our New Gods by Thomas Vowles

Queasy, deranged fun.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Novel, queer

Review: Past & Parallel Lives by Kaya Ortiz

Poems that slip and jump through time.

Australian, Colonialism, LGBTIQ, Migration, Philippines, Poetry, queer

Review: Nicolas Pages by Guillaume Dustan (translated by Peter Valente and James Horton)

Pure creative force.

1990s, Classics, Fiction, France, HIV, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: King Of Dirt by Holden Sheppard

Greasy, dusty, hot, sweaty fun.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Western Australia

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