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8 Spooky New LGBTQ+ Books for Halloween

8 Spooky New LGBTQ+ Books for Halloween

  • Dana Rudolph
  • Oct 16, 2025

Get your kids (and yourself) ready for Halloween with these recent LGBTQ+-inclusive books for all ages about witches, vampires, werewolves, demons, and other spooky beings.

3 New Queer-Inclusive Middle Grade Novels of Growth and Change

3 New Queer-Inclusive Middle Grade Novels of Growth and Change

  • by Dana Rudolph
  • Oct 2, 2025
"Fairyland"

"Fairyland"

  • by Dana Rudolph
  • Oct 2, 2025
Persistence and Risk Taking

Persistence and Risk Taking

  • by Dana Rudolph
  • Oct 2, 2025
A Dozen New LGBTQ+ Picture Books on Family, Heritage, Heroes, and More

A Dozen New LGBTQ+ Picture Books on Family, Heritage, Heroes, and More

  • by Dana Rudolph
  • Sep 18, 2025
An Answer for Snoop Dogg

An Answer for Snoop Dogg

  • by Dana Rudolph
  • Sep 4, 2025

Life in the Slow Lane

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Too Much of a Good Thing?

  • Judah Leblang
  • Oct 16, 2025

Back in the aughts/'00s and teens/'10s, when I had a research job at Lesley University and later worked at Endicott College, time felt precious, my days busy and productive.

Not Quite Old

Not Quite Old

  • by Judah Leblang
  • Sep 5, 2025
Back in the Land

Back in the Land

  • by Judah Leblang
  • Jul 24, 2025
Welcome Home

Welcome Home

  • by Judah Leblang
  • May 29, 2025
Back to the Land

Back to the Land

  • by Judah Leblang
  • May 1, 2025
Marking Time

Marking Time

  • by Judah Leblang
  • Dec 12, 2024

Holding the Center

Trump's 'post-constitutional' putsch

Trump's 'post-constitutional' putsch

  • Richard J. Rosendall
  • Oct 16, 2025

Protest is not terrorism

Ain't nobody here but us chickens

Ain't nobody here but us chickens

  • by Richard J. Rosendall
  • Sep 18, 2025
Our nation's defense is up to us

Our nation's defense is up to us

  • by Richard J. Rosendall
  • Sep 5, 2025
Stopping the Christian nationalist revolution

Stopping the Christian nationalist revolution

  • by Richard J. Rosendall
  • Aug 21, 2025
Summer portal fantasies

Summer portal fantasies

  • by Richard J. Rosendall
  • Aug 7, 2025
In the face of fear, grasping hope

In the face of fear, grasping hope

  • by Richard J. Rosendall
  • Jul 24, 2025

Irene Monroe

Marriage Equality on the rocks

Marriage Equality on the rocks

  • Rev. Irene Monroe
  • Sep 18, 2025

Overturning marriage equality is now a present threat.

Menino was an ally to the black LGBTQ+ communities

Menino was an ally to the black LGBTQ+ communities

  • by Rev. Irene Monroe
  • Jul 24, 2025
Womxn of Color Weekend rocked!

Womxn of Color Weekend rocked!

  • by Rev. Irene Monroe
  • Jun 12, 2025
Pope Francis's complicated legacy with LGBTQ+ Catholics

Pope Francis's complicated legacy with LGBTQ+ Catholics

  • by Rev. Irene Monroe
  • May 1, 2025

In honor of black trans women

  • by Rev. Irene Monroe
  • Mar 20, 2025
We don't need Trump's permission to celebrate us

We don't need Trump's permission to celebrate us

  • by Rev. Irene Monroe
  • Mar 6, 2025

Billy Masters

Billy Masters 10.16.25

Billy Masters 10.16.25

  • Billy Masters
  • Oct 16, 2025

In case anybody missed it, Taylor Swift revealed that Travis Kelce has "hot gay friends".

Billy Masters 10.02.25

Billy Masters 10.02.25

  • by Billy Masters
  • Oct 2, 2025
Billy Masters 09.18.25

Billy Masters 09.18.25

  • by Billy Masters
  • Sep 18, 2025
Billy Masters 09.04.25

Billy Masters 09.04.25

  • by Billy Masters
  • Sep 4, 2025
Billy Masters 08.21.25

Billy Masters 08.21.25

  • by Billy Masters
  • Aug 21, 2025
Billy Masters 08.07.25

Billy Masters 08.07.25

  • by Billy Masters
  • Aug 7, 2025