Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

The Red Winter
Queen of Faces (Queen of Faces, #1)
Get Over It, April Evans (Clover Lake, #2)
Out of the Loop
Margin of Error
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
Cleaner
Nightshade and Oak
Gods Beneath the Ice (Blood & Souls Duology #2)
Until the Clock Strikes Midnight
Fireflies in Winter
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die
This Wretched Beauty
To the Death
Just Between Us: A Graphic Novel
We Used to Live Here
Blue Sisters
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Emperor of Gladness
Razorblade Tears
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
Wayward Girls
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
All the Way to the River
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Best M/M With An Actual Story
1,547 books — 1,252 voters
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Best Lesbian Fiction
2,044 books — 2,709 voters

Change of Heart by Mary CalmesCut & Run by Madeleine UrbanSticks & Stones by Abigail RouxWith Caution by J.L. LangleyTiming by Mary Calmes
Best Gay Alpha Males
822 books — 923 voters
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The Best Humorous Gay Romances
925 books — 1,689 voters

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Best Gay Paranormals
1,314 books — 942 voters

The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

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