Queer Joy - Reactor

Queer Joy - Reactor

.prose blockquote.wp-block-quote:before{--wpr-bg-3f1e83a4-91cd-4002-b728-c071d529c527: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-block-quote.49103f.svg');}.about-author-bg-top:after, .about-author-bg-top:before{--wpr-bg-8c026c1f-bac2-4e99-8a05-15095af2bae6: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-corner.1554a7.svg');}.about-author-bg-right:before{--wpr-bg-9e9ae3ce-8380-4b08-a2ad-55a2a2ed1bd7: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-corner.1554a7.svg');}.article-contents .wp-block-footnotes blockquote.wp-block-quote:before{--wpr-bg-401a97c0-5c10-49b7-95a6-da4997b8cfca: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-block-quote.49103f.svg');}body.register #buddypress.register-page input[type=checkbox]:before{--wpr-bg-82abe80f-d847-4951-98ff-7c0bf8772f0e: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-check.f0c956.svg');}.form-newsletter-checkbox:before{--wpr-bg-e0ae0074-1191-4af0-a20e-c6ca6ba34607: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-check.f0c956.svg');}.comments #wpdcom .wpdiscuz-item.wpd-field-checkbox.wpd-field-single .wpd-field-label:after{--wpr-bg-fedff7d9-c9ca-4a8f-8462-a868764a6b82: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-check.f0c956.svg');}.comments #wpdcom .wpd-thread-filter .wpdf-hottest i, .comments #wpdcom .wpd-thread-filter .wpdf-reacted i{--wpr-bg-329707b5-f2b5-4a31-a409-a2d201c2ece5: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-fire.4b3dd4.png');}.comments #wpdcom .wpd-thread-filter .wpdf-reacted i{--wpr-bg-43e330d8-432d-4152-8696-0eaba3b7692c: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-lightning-bolt.f041fa.png');}.comments #wpdcom .wpd-thread-filter .wpdf-sorting i{--wpr-bg-918a60f7-f86e-4692-b738-8ee595ef2b1b: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-arrow-down.72088c.svg');}.comments #wpdcom .wpd-comment-footer .wpd-vote-down, .comments #wpdcom .wpd-comment-footer .wpd-vote-up{--wpr-bg-056e3c94-e802-41f6-a980-66775bd01314: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-vote.7e0e2e.svg');}.comments #wpdcom .wpd-comment-footer .wpd-reply-button:before{--wpr-bg-c5cc8f18-96ec-4562-93c3-e6aac1569de2: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-reply.3a6a8e.svg');}.comments #wpdcom .wpd-comment-header .wpd-comment-share i.fa-share-alt:before{--wpr-bg-9a35a271-9362-4242-b669-6e9d398b5520: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-share-wpdiscus.c31381.svg');}.comments #wpdcom .wpdiscuz-subscribe-bar form .wpdiscuz-subscribe-form-option:after{--wpr-bg-238c0963-d4ef-4335-8873-b02d2c766812: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/chevron-down.d378c6.svg');}#buddypress .pagination-contents .next:before{--wpr-bg-0914f271-02ac-4ddf-98ec-809ef054b1b1: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-chervon-right.7151fb.svg');}#buddypress .pagination-contents .prev:before{--wpr-bg-5228637d-a896-4518-ac7c-bbccd237540f: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-chervon-left.f4e4aa.svg');}#buddypress .notification-actions a.delete:before{--wpr-bg-4203665b-a2c4-4cd2-84cb-3963ef68fea1: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-trash.8ba8dd.svg');}.form.search input::-webkit-search-cancel-button{--wpr-bg-0fbab232-53fd-420a-8f54-8b7d50c8acf3: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-x.37820b.svg');}.login-form input[type=checkbox]:before{--wpr-bg-23429ff2-b201-4fff-bf4d-be2fafb51d95: url('https://reactormag.com/wp-content/themes/tor/public/css/images/icon-check.f0c956.svg');}

Skip to content

This Month's New Titles

What to Watch This Month

Sign up for our weekly newsletter Everything in one handy email.

Featured Fiction

Home / Queer Joy

Queer Joy

detail from the cover of Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo

Books

Necessary Whimsy

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Celebrate Queer Joy

By Lish McBride

June 18, 2026

detail from the cover of Infinity Alchemist (art by Chris Sack)

Books

Backlist Bonanza

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Queer YA Books for Pride Month

By Alex Brown

June 8, 2026

Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Featured Essays

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

To the Stars, Through Hardship: Strange New Worlds and Uncovering Past Trauma

By Jerome Stueart

June 1, 2026

detail from the cover of The Bruising of Qilwa

Books

Backlist Bonanza

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Works of Asexual Speculative Fiction

By Alex Brown

February 11, 2026

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie in Heated Rivalry

Featured Essays

Heated Rivalry

On Heated Rivalry and Queer Desire as an Unequivocal Good

By Olivia Waite

February 9, 2026

Cover of The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin

Featured Essays

sexuality

The Necessary Sex Scene: Intimacy as Craft in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season

By Tiffany Fritz

June 25, 2025

Detail from the cover of We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2023

Books

queer SFF

What If Things Were Different? — Five Works of Queer and Trans Futurity

By Lee Mandelo

June 24, 2025

Detail from the cover of Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore

Books

queer SFF

From the Margins: Remixing Literary Classics to Center Trans Stories

By Alissa Burger

June 11, 2025

Dennis Quaid and Lou Gosset, Jr. in Enemy Mine

Featured Essays

Enemy Mine

Enemy Mine Is the Queer, Anti-War Sci-Fi You’ve Been Missing

By Meg Elison

May 27, 2025

Detail from the cover of We Mostly Come Out at Night

Books

queer SFF

Speculative Anthologies That Get Creative With Gender

By Ayida Shonibar

March 19, 2025

Artist's conception of multiple Earth-like planets

Featured Essays

queer SFF

Many Worlds and the Queer Imaginary

By Emet North

May 8, 2024

Featured Essays

Power Rangers

The Unspoken Queerness in Saban’s Power Rangers

By Jen St. Jude

September 11, 2023

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

TPG 2026 • Site Credit