Tag Archives: Queerphobia

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of queerphobia (any form of bigotry toward the queer and/or trans community).

You’re No Better by Andrew Joseph White

Morgan Slaughter, a seventeen-year-old trans boy with autism, put his serial killer father in prison years ago. Despite that, everyone thinks Morgan will grow up to be just like his dad: including his volatile mother, the documentary crew following their family, and maybe himself. Desperately, Morgan latches onto his father’s final victim—the only one who was never identified—hoping that if he unravels the mystery, he’ll finally prove he’s better than the man who hurt him. But this puts Morgan in the crosshairs of classmate Felicity Keating, who knows the truth about Morgan’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Transphobia, queerphobia & misgendering and forced closeting (on-page)
  • Rape recounted, sexual harassment, sexual assault & grooming
  • Physical & emotional child abuse (theme)
  • Suicidal ideation & intrusive thoughts
  • Self-harm
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse, including forced alcohol consumption
  • Hospitalisation (on-page)
  • Graphic murder & torture recounted
  • Kidnapping recounted & confinement (on-page)
  • Blackmail

Maybe This Time by Cara Bastone

Romance can be a little complicated when you get sucked into a wormhole. Just ask high school English teacher June Flint. One little solar flare happens and suddenly you find yourself 85 years in the future. Eighty-five years from your dream job. Your ailing mother whose only companion in this world is you. Your favorite stuffed-crust pizza from DeLucia… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Workplace homophobia & racism recounted
  • Anxiety
  • Parent with degenerative memory issues
  • Death of a parent recounted

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia (Cassandra After)
  • Body-shaming (Mantis)
  • Infidelity (Cassandra After)
  • Divorce (Formally Feral, Smack)
  • Depression (Smack, Cassandra After)
  • Suicide mentioned (The Collectables)
  • Self-harm mentioned (Cassandra After)
  • Alcohol consumption & smoking (The Collectables)
  • Pregnancy & mention of miscarriage/pregnancy loss (Salt Slow)
  • Blood & injury depiction (Mantis, Formally Feral, Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax, Granite, Salt Slow)
  • Heart attack mentioned (The Collectables)
  • Weight loss, dieting & starvation mentioned (Mantis, Salt Slow)
  • Emesis (Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax)
  • Death of a parent recounted (Smack)
  • Death of a partner (Cassandra After)
  • Car accident mentioned (Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax)
  • Fire (The Collectables)
  • Drowning (Salt Slow)
  • Bullying (Formally Feral)

Over a Barrel by Layla Reyne

Annaliese Rosin is fifty-six and starting over. New city, new job, new scene she’d like to explore with the stunning redhead from her flight home. She just needs to finish one last year-end deal. Should be easy, except her sexy seatmate ends up being the attorney across the table. Carrington Clarke started over once already. At forty-three, she can’t afford to risk her job, her friends, or her heart, not even for the bossy older woman who understands exactly what she needs in the bedroom—to be watched by others. At least not until their deal closes.. While working side by… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Workplace sexism
  • Parental disownment recounted (protagonist)
  • Emancipation of a secondary character mentioned to homophobic child abuse
  • Divorce recounted
  • Alcohol consumption

Context: The main relationship is in violation of professional ethics (sexual relationship while opposing counsel) and discussed on-page.

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen

In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way. Harriet wants to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed on a BET talk show. Darnell has no idea what to expect when he steps… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism & slavery discussed
  • Outing & homophobia recounted
  • Smoking
  • Death of a friend from cancer mentioned
  • Kidnapping of a child
  • American Civil War mentioned

It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano

Yasmín Treviño didn’t have much of a freshman year thanks to Hurricane Humphrey, but she’s ready to take sophomore year by storm. That means mastering the marching side of marching band—fast!—so she can outshine her BFF Sofia as top of the flute section, earn first chair, and impress both her future college admission boards and her comfortably unattainable drum major crush Gilberto Reyes. But Yasmín steps off on the wrong foot when she reports an anonymous gossip Instagram account harassing new band members and accidentally gets the entire… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misgendering
  • Sexism
  • Toxic friendship
  • Cyberbullying & online harassment

All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles

When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy relative’s remote Gothic manor, he is horrified to find all the people he least wants to see in the world: his estranged brother, his sneering cousin, and his bitter ex-lover Gideon Grey. Things couldn’t possibly get worse. Then the master of the house announces the true purpose of the gathering: he intends to leave the vast family fortune to whoever marries his young ward, setting off a violent scramble for her hand. Zeb wants no part of his greedy family―but when he tries to leave, the way is barred. The walls of Lackaday… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Period-typical homophobia & ableism
  • Rape & incest recounted
  • Murder

Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed. Seeing herself in her teenage granddaughter’s struggles with… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia & coming out themes
  • Domestic abuse
  • Death of a grandfather recounted
  • Car accident mentioned

That’s What Friends Are For by Wade Rouse

Theodore Copeland has created a fabulous life in the desert oasis of Palm Springs, where he shares a fabulous pink mid-century home with three fabulous friends: Barry, a former actor still clinging to his youth, his hair, and the memory of the dream role that killed his career; Ron, an uprooted Christian from the Midwest with a big heart but no one to give it to; Sid, who, after coming out late in life, has never found love. Teddy is the caustic, unspoken leader of “The Golden Gays”—the foursome’s monthly drag tribute to The Golden Girls. Despite their foibles and bickering, they… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia & coming out recounted
  • Death of a husband from suicide

Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni

When Nar’s non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes it’s time to find someone who shares her idea of romance. Enter her mother: armed with plenty of mom-guilt and a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked Armenian men, she convinces Nar to attend Explore Armenia, a month-long series of events in the city. But it’s not the mom-approved playboy doctor or wealthy engineer who catches her eye—it’s Erebuni, a woman as equally immersed in the witchy arts as she is in… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia & biphobia and coming out themes
  • Alcoholism
  • Death of a parent in a car accident recounted