Good company

The internet used to run on blogrolls — a little list in the sidebar of the other people worth reading, passed hand to hand. This is ours: a short, deliberately un-exhaustive set of queer book blogs, indie speculative magazines, and small presses we actually read. No rankings, no churn, no algorithm. Just good company.

Last updated June 2026.

Queer book writing

Lavender Books — Aster, a transmasc butch lesbian reviewer, writing on sapphic and trans books. His anticipated-queer-releases roundups have become a yearly fixture that half the internet quietly references; a warm, trustworthy first stop.

The Transfeminine Review — a one-of-a-kind project to read and assess the entire field of transfeminine literature, the obscure and self-published alongside the celebrated, and take all of it seriously. Rigorous, archival, and unlike anything else out there.

Indie speculative magazines

Baffling Magazine — quarterly flash fiction at the queer edge of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Short, strange, and sharp, and a paying pro market for the writers who make it.

OTHERSIDE — a queer-led quarterly of speculative fiction, poetry, and art, every contributor self-identifying 2SLGBTQIA+. New, ambitious, and worth following from the start.

Small presses

Neon Hemlock — a Washington, DC press publishing queer speculative novellas, anthologies, and zines. Publishers Weekly called it "the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing," and for once a blurb undersells: there is a Nebula on that shelf.

ReQueered Tales — as much a rescue operation as a press. Three friends who met online acquire the rights to gay and lesbian mystery, suspense, and horror from the 1960s through the 90s and bring it back into print, book by book, before it slips out of reach for good. Our stories, in our own words, kept in circulation.

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