Author: Read with Pride

readwithpride.com Let’s be honest for a second: queer joy isn’t just about surviving pride month parades or sipping iced lattes in oversized cardigans (though we definitely still do that). True queer joy often lives in the delightfully specific, highly specialized hobbies we cultivate. Whether you are finding your stance at an inclusive archery range, picking …

Queer Archery, Lockpicking, and Love: The Hobbies That Make Us Who We AreRead More

readwithpride.com Let’s be real for a second. If you’re navigating life as part of the LGBTQ+ community today, you’ve probably felt that heavy, familiar knot in your chest at some point. Between hostile headlines, legislative attacks on trans youth, and the quiet, lingering grief of personal rejections or historical losses, being queer often means carrying …

Queer Healing and Future Visions: How We Transform Grief Into Collective StrengthRead More

readwithpride.com Let’s be real for a second: when most of us grew up, the life milestone script we were handed looked something like a suburban sitcom nightmare. White picket fence, hetero marriage by twenty-five, 2.5 kids, a minivan, and a predictable march toward retirement. If you were lucky, you got a gold watch at the …

LGBTQ+ Relationships and Life Milestones: Future Visions of Queer Love , Resilience, Reinvention, and the Path AheadRead More

readwithpride.com Good morning, beautiful queer fam! Grab your emotional support iced coffee, steep that artisanal chamomile, or guard your espresso machine with your life. Welcome to another installment of Queer Life & Hobbies, where we dive headfirst into the chaotic, brilliant, deeply caffeinated reality of modern queer existence. Whether you’re juggling early morning school drop-offs, …

Queer Life & Hobbies: Morning Edition : Second Chances, Lockpicking Lessons, and the MM Romance Books We Can’t Put DownRead More

Let’s be honest for a moment: how many times have you looked at a story in your notebook, a draft on your laptop, or an emotional MM romance series you’ve poured your heart into, and thought, “Who would ever care about this outside of my own room?” If you are a queer writer sitting in …

Your Queer Stories Deserve a Global Stage , Publish Free for One YearRead More

Let’s be honest for a second: being queer in this world often comes with an invisible weight. Whether you’re navigating the echoes of past grief, carrying the exhaustion of systemic minority stress, or simply trying to catch your breath after a heavy week in the news cycle, survival can sometimes feel like a full-time job. …

The Futures We Dare to ImagineRead More

Society has an obsession with timelines. You know the script: graduate college by twenty-two, land the dream job by twenty-five, buy a house, get married, and maybe pick up a golden retriever somewhere in between. It’s neat, predictable, and frankly, a little exhausting. For the LGBTQ+ community, however, our life milestones don’t follow a neat …

The Queer Timeline: Coming Out, Chosen Families & Love That Defines UsRead More

Welcome back to our Queer Hobbies & Community Connection series! Let’s be honest: while sipping craft cocktails under neon lights at the local gay bar will always hold a sacred place in our queer hearts, our livers are begging for a break. Enter the newest, most vibrant hotspot in the LGBTQ+ social scene: the humble …

Dirt, Desire, and Delphiniums: Why Queer Community Gardens Are the New Gay BarRead More

Welcome to the very first installment of our brand-new series, “Queer Life & Hobbies: Morning Edition”! If you’re anything like us, the alarm clock isn’t just a rude awakening: it’s the official starting gun for a day spent navigating a world that wasn’t always built with us in mind. But here’s the magic of queer …

Queer Mornings: How We Claim the Dawn, One Ritual at a TimeRead More

Let’s be honest for a second: for decades, if you picked up a mainstream thriller or a crime novel, queer characters were either an afterthought, a tragic plot device, or the first person to get bumped off in chapter three. Talk about a snooze-fest! We’ve all read that tired old trope: the clandestine romance doomed …

Crime, Cults, and Queer Heroes: How LGBTQ+ Thriller Writers Are Redefining the Genre on Our Free Global Publishing PortalRead More

Let’s be real for a second: navigating life as a queer or trans person in this world takes an incredible amount of emotional heavy lifting. Between family expectations, everyday microaggressions, and the constant news cycle, survival is often the baseline we operate on. But here at Read with Pride, we talk a lot about moving …

Queer Healing and Future Visions: Imagining What Comes NextRead More

readwithpride.com Let’s be honest for a second: traditional life milestone checklists: graduate high school, get a standard job, buy a suburban starter home, get married by twenty-five with a white picket fence: were never really designed for us. Growing up queer often means rewriting the rulebook entirely. Instead of a single, straight path, LGBTQ+ individuals …

Navigating Queer Life Milestones: Coming Out, Chosen Families, and LGBTQ+ RelationshipsRead More

Let’s be honest: nothing tests your patience: or your culinary skills: quite like trying to impress your chosen family with a sourdough loaf that looks suspiciously like a cobblestone. But in the grand tradition of queer history, building community has rarely been about perfection. It’s been about survival, joy, and the glorious chaos of gathering …

Queer Potluck Revolution: How Shared Meals Are Building Community, One Dish at a TimeRead More

If there is one thing we know for sure in the LGBTQ+ community, it’s that our life milestones rarely follow a straight, predictable script. Traditional societal expectations tell us there’s a rigid checklist: graduate, get a standard job, meet someone conventional, buy a house in the suburbs, and settle down quietly. But for queer folks, …

Queer Life Milestones: How LGBTQ+ Writers Are Capturing Life’s Biggest Moments on Our Free Global Publishing PortalRead More

readwithpride.com Grief is a heavy cloak. In the LGBTQ+ community, sorrow often arrives not just with personal heartbreak, but layered with historical trauma, societal exclusion, and the invisible weight of a world that hasn’t always known how to hold us. Yet, despite the storms, there is an extraordinary pulse of survival in our bones. Today, …

Queer Healing After Loss: Why We Grieve, Why We Grow, and Why We DreamRead More

readwithpride.com Let’s be real for a second: the traditional “life timeline” was never really written with us in mind. You know the one: the straight-and-narrow path of dating in your early twenties, marriage by twenty-eight, a mortgage, and 2.5 kids before the first grey hair appears. For the LGBTQ+ community, our milestones often look a …

LGBTQ+ Relationships and Life Milestones: Chosen Families, Partnership Dynamics, and the Love We Build OurselvesRead More

Let’s be real: as a community, we’ve always been experts at making things grow in places people said they wouldn’t. Whether it’s a underground ballroom scene in the 80s or a literal patch of dirt in the middle of a concrete jungle, queer folks know how to cultivate beauty. Today, we’re talking about one of …

Queer Community Gardening: Digging Deep, Growing Together, and Building a Better WorldRead More

Welcome to the very first installment of our new morning series, Queer Life & Hobbies. Grab your oat milk latte (or that third cup of black coffee, we don’t judge), settle into your favorite nook, and let’s talk about how we’re finding each other in 2026. For a long time, the “Queer Community” felt like …

Queer Life & Hobbies: Finding Community in the UnexpectedRead More

Speculative fiction has always been about the “What if?” What if we lived among the stars? What if magic was real? For the LGBTQ+ community, these questions have often been a lifeline. In worlds where the rules of our reality don’t apply, we’ve found the freedom to imagine versions of ourselves that aren’t just surviving, …

Building Other Worlds: How Queer Fantasy and Sci-Fi Authors Are Thriving on Our Free Global Publishing PortalRead More

Let’s be real for a second: being part of the LGBTQ+ community is a wild, beautiful, and sometimes incredibly heavy journey. We carry a lot: history, personal struggles, and the collective weight of those who came before us. But if there’s one thing that defines us more than the challenges we face, it’s our ability …

Healing Together: Queer Resilience and the Futures We’re BuildingRead More