June 2025 Queer Releases

A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white square with a thin outline and text that reads "204 queer books coming out this Pride Month!". The 204 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and Pride Month is in rainbow text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font.

🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this May? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of?

We do our best to screen books for AI usage and do not include books with covers that are made by generative AI, or books written by generative AI. If there was a mistake, please let us know so we can update our post!!

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Note: Some dates may have changed. We haven’t read all of these books, so please check reviews for more details on queer identities represented and The StoryGraph for content warnings!

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

  • The Tenth Muse: A Sapphic Anthology edited by Sarah Mesh

  • Love is All: A Charity Romance Anthology Vol 8

  • Starman: A Gay 70s High School Love Story by Will Forrest

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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  • 27 by Victoria Kinnaird 

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

  • Black Ice: Volume 2 by Bradford D. Smith II

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

ID: A post of eighteen slides. Background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow for each slide. Slide 1 has a white square which reads "204 queer books coming out this Pride Month!". The 204 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and Pride Month is in rainbow text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font. Slide 2-18 features a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a blue rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. 

We post an open call for new releases around the 20th of the month preceding on Twitter/X, Blue Sky and Threads. Authors can add their books to these posts to be included in future new release lists.

Alternatively, you can email andy@rainbowcratebookbox.com with the title/series name, author, book cover and a link to more information/purchase options (Goodreads/Author website/Itch.io).

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