QLL’s Reading Recs for Black History Month!

Happy Black History Month, QLL! Black History is Queer History and Queer History is Black History. Black trans women pioneered the LGBT Rights movement in the United States. Keep saying it! No one is free until we are all free.

Our recommendations for Black History Month are by no means an exhaustive list of what exists out there in the wide wild world for literature that’s queer AND Black, but we think that it does show off how there’s Black AND queer stories being told in every age group, every format, and every genre.

We can’t wait until we’re able to really put these stories in your hands, but for now, some titles to add to your TBR are:

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson: (Nonfiction, memoir, young adult)

D’Vaughn & Kris Plan A Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins: (fiction, contemporary romance, lesbian lit)

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith: (poetry)

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers: (fiction, romance, coming-of-age)

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus: (fiction, young adult, coming-of-age)

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez: (fiction, horror, vampires)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker: (fiction, classic, epistolary novel)

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby: (nonfiction, autobiography, essays, humor)