Last Updated: July 22, 2026
Waiting on a Friend
by Natalie Adler
Renata is a young dyke-about-town who can see ghosts, something she’s doing more and more of lately as too many of her friends are dying of a new, terrifying disease. When Renata’s best friend, Mark, dies of complications from AIDS, Renata is devastated by the loss of the person she loved most in the world. With her band of lovably eccentric pals and lovers, Renata is determined to fight back against the erasure of her friends’ memories and the sanitizing of her beloved New York. But haunting her every step is Mark, the one ghost who stubbornly refuses to appear.
Puck
by Samantha Allen
Meet Puck: the nonbinary, thirty-year-old mastermind behind Homewreckers, a dating show that puts troubled couples through hell. When their best friend Mia becomes engaged to her ex’s best friend, Damon, Puck immediately sees that Mia’s marriage will lead to misery, and so they take it upon themself to save their friend by secretly rearranging the couples. But as Puck comes up against a type-A maid of honor hell-bent on making this wedding perfect, it becomes clear that they will have to deliver the greatest stunt of their career.
The Tuxedo Society
by Paul Rudnick
When Andrew Birnbaum, a struggling actor making ends meet by working in a candle shop, gets invited to have dinner with the exclusive Tuxedo Society by his best friend, Brock, his life takes an unexpected turn.
Mad Eden
by Morgan Thomas
Ro (newly diagnosed with autism and working as a patient navigator for people seeking gender-affirming care) and Liam live in a ramshackle cabin in a secluded stretch of Florida. A myriad of circumstances sends Liam and Ro’s world spinning toward disaster–unless Ro can become the real-life hero their situation demands without betraying who they are and who they love.
Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You
by Julián Delgado Lopera
Lonely and love-starved, Valentina aches to discover the details of her mother’s drowning, and for her father to snap out of his depression. But Ignacio can’t. He spends listless afternoons haunted not only by matrimonial guilt, but by memories of a young man he once loved and betrayed. From Ignacio’s tragic past emerges the luminous queen of Bogotá’s queer underground, Mamadora Eléctrica, the wise travesti who he first met under the silvery lights of Club Aquario when he was just a shy country boy.