Queer media recs for Pride Month and beyond

LGBTQ+ books, TV, film, documentaries, podcasts, and more

Doing my damnedest not to consume an iota of heterosexual content this June—find my top recommendations for queer books, TV shows, documentaries, movies, podcasts, and music below if you’d like to do the same.

Queer book recommendations

Fiction

Contemporary

• Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive

• We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

• We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin

Romance

• That Summer Feeling by Bridget Morrissey

• Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

• Here for the Wrong Reasons by Lydia Wang and Annabel Paulsen

• Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban

• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Mystery

• Board to Death by C.J. Connor

• Killing Me by Michelle Gagnon

• The Verifiers by Jane Pek

• The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

Fantasy

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

• Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune

• Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

• Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell

Nonfiction

• Shrill by Lindy West

• Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

• Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Hunt Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America by Krista Burton

• Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston

• The LGBTQ+ Travel Guide by Alicia Valenski (I had to!)

On my TBR

Fiction

Contemporary

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

• Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

• Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns

• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Romance

• But How Are You, Really by Ella Dawson

• I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Mystery

• The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell

• Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

• The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman

Fantasy

• Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Nonfiction

• Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer by Dylan Mulvaney

• The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul

• A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas

• When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors by Paula Akpan

Poetry

• Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austin

Queer TV recommendations

Drama

• Hacks

• A League of Their Own

• Sex Education

Comedy

• Schitt’s Creek

• English Teacher

• Grace and Frankie

• Broad City

• Modern Family

• Tuca & Bertie

Romance

• Heartstopper

Adventure

• Our Flag Means Death

Reality

• RuPaul's Drag Race

• The Ultimatum: Queer Love

On my watch list

Drama

• Pose

• Killing Eve

• Dickinson

• The L Word

Comedy

• Los Espookys

• Mid-Century Modern

Queer documentary recommendations

• Paris is Burning

• How to Survive a Plague

• Disclosure

• The Times of Harvey Milk

• Before Stonewall

On my watch list

• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

• Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts

• A Secret Love

Queer movie recommendations

• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!

• Booksmart

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

• Rent

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

• My Old Ass

• Red, White & Royal Blue

• Challengers

On my watch list

• Bottoms

• But I’m A Cheerleader

• Carol

• A Nice Indian Boy

• Milk

• Call Me By Your Name

• Bros

• Shiva Baby

Queer podcast recommendations

• Las Culturistas

• LGBTQ&A

• Gays Reading

• Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

• Stereotypes

In my queue

• Bad Gays

• Queery with Cameron Esposito

• Chosen Family

• I Can Explain

Queer music recommendations

There are way too fucking many recommendations across too many decades and too many genres for me to even attempt to cover a sliver of here, so I’m just going to send you to this Reddit thread.

Anything else?

Did I miss one of your favs? Drop it in a comment so I can add it to the list.

Happy Pride Month, bbs!!!