queer
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
25 Feb 2026
Delightful. Less is a funny and poetic book about a Arthur Less, a minor American novelist who can’t face either being at the wedding of his ex boyfriend, or staying home for it, so he accepts all the invitations to conferences, teaching positions, interviews, travel writing opportunities and trips he normally refuses and sets off on a journey around the world.
What follows is a series of mishaps and indignities (not least of which is his fiftieth birthday) as well as unlikely hook-ups and encounters with friends and exes. We learn things about the nature of time, and memory, and love. The helpless resignation with which our hero Less meets his misfortune and the loving, yet mocking omniscient narrator give the book a sweet atmosphere, and keep it from being too nostalgic or sappy.
I enjoyed it a lot.
Recommended for:
- romantics
- gays
- vicarious travel enthusiasts
Won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018
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What a Drag! Another open mic?
Café Kino
28 Jan 2026
House of Boussé is a trans-forward drag house and they have an open mic in Café Kino that is strange, wonderful, inscrutable, delightful. It feels a little bit culty but like, in a good way.
Drag can be a funny thing to try to define. The open mic is for any short form performance art by trans+ artists. I’ve seen comedy, music, horror, historical, and genre-defining what-is-its on What a Drag’s small stage and personally, I’m ready for more.
Last Wednesday of the month, check at:
What a Drag! (IG)
Café Kino is at:
Accessibility note: the performance is in the basement down some steep steps.
Recommended if you like:
- Drag
- Trans rights AND trans wrongs
- In-jokes
Murder Most Fab
Julian Clarey
20 Jan 2026
finished
Delightful, camp murder comedy about a young man on his way to super stardom who just keeps getting put into situations where he unfortunately has to murder other men. Woe is he.
The character is a lot more sympathetic than I would have guessed from the premise, he's more of a lovable idiot than a magnificent bastard. It's sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, but the story is saved from nihilism by the character's enduring love for a YA summer romance.
Best read of the year so far. (Yes, it's mid January, but still.)
Recommended if you like:
- That Gay Shit,
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,
- Whore with a Heart of Gold.
Bury your Gays
Chuck Tingle
24 Oct 2025
finished
I was new to Chuck Tingle, who also has a very sexy(?) fiction podcast where his erotic stories are read by the people of Welcome to Nightvale (get that where-ever you get your podcasts). He’s good. I liked it. Blazed through it on a roadtrip.
Bury your Gays is a very enjoyable, madcap Hollywood horror about the future of entertainment in the age of AI, being out, artistic integrity and the ghosts of the past. Well plotted, great cast, satisfying ending. No notes.
Detransition, Baby!
Torrey Peters
26 Mar 2025
One of my top reads of 2025. The story is about a complex family trying to form: a detransitioned trans woman gets his boss pregnant and is asking his ex (a transwoman) to join them and be the second mother to the baby.
Most of the book is actually the character’s back stories, how they got to be who they are and why this crazy premise actually makes a kind of sense, maybe. It’s very queer, it’s funny and sad and hopeful without sanding down the rough edges.
I don’t identify as trans but reading this felt like a window into trans female experiences that an educational text just couldn't ever offer. And I value it deeply for that.
Recommended if you like:
- Queer drama
- Trans rights