#june thomas

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2026:

"a place of our own:

six spaces that shaped queer women's culture"

june thomas

"can an inherently diverse group create a truly equitable community, or is it doomed to replicate the exclusionary dynamics of the larger society?"

[lgbtqreads]

August 2025 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Hurston/Wright fellow and Syracuse MFA graduate Erica Frederick‘s FIGHT IN THE NIGHT, a queer coming-of-age novel set during one endless, storm-filled summer that follows a teenage girl—the only daughter of Haitian immigrants—and her five older brothers as they barrel through the Florida suburbs, where she must learn to grow bigger in a world that insists on her smallness, to Emily…

August 2025 Deal Announcements

[judgingbooksbycovers]

A Place of Our Own

Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

By June Thomas.

[lgbtqreads]

July 2021 Deal Announcements

July 2021 Deal Announcements

Children’s Fiction Author of I THINK I LOVE YOU Auriane Desombre‘s debut THE SISTER SPLIT, pitched as a reverse Parent Trap, in which a young girl teams up with her future step sister to create a plan full of hijinks that will stop their parents from getting married, so she doesn’t have to move away from the city and leave her best friend – a girl – she’s starting to develop feelings for behind,…

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[clinttbartton]

omg listening to A Place of Our Own by June Thomas and in the 1970s the alpha omega softball team had the following cheers:

“two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar, all for the queers stand up and holler!”

“give me an A! give me an L! give me an F! give me an A! what do you got? DYKES DYKES DYKES”

[ademella]

Currently reading

[glassbattalion]

This woman has 'anorexia of things' and she is trying to make the rest of us have 'anorexia of things.' She will not be happy until everybody's apartment is empty.

June Thomas in the “Honor Your Socks Edition” of Double X Podcast, talking about Marie Kondo’s hyper-minimalist lifestyle method outlined in “The Magic of Tidying Up”

[schwarmerei1]

Gays have kids too you know?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/01/06/stephen_fry_and_elliott_spencer_s_engagement_raises_the_age_gap_romance.html OK, so primarily, yes...go this article about Stephen Fry and Elliott Spencer intending to marry. Who cares about the age gap between intended spouses as long as both are adults. However this bit: Sass aside, the ability of rich, famous men to attract younger, more classically attractive mates is hardly breaking news, and the old rule of thumb that men should only date women no younger than half their age plus seven years has long been considered sexist and anachronistic. As long as everyone involved in a relationship is a responsible, mature adult, arithmetic should play no role in deciding a couple’s compatibility. What’s more, that silly calculation only ever applied to childbearing heterosexuals. The only time I have been even vaguely convinced that there is any justification for negative reactions to a May-December relationship (though the Spencer-Fry union is probably best characterized as April-ides of September) is when very old men father children. Is a 75-year-old father condemning a newborn son to early dadlessness? Quite possibly, but as long as his estate can support the lad, such behavior doesn’t seem particularly reckless. And none of that applies to this case, anyway. Thanks so much for the erasure June Thomas! We've tweeted...we've talked about same-sex rights in Australia vs America...I like you! You're not personally a same-sex parent, and sure there are more lesbians having kids than gay men...but WHAT AN ASSUMPTION! My choice to have children is not for all queers, but there are more and more of us, and I expect more of Slate's editor of the LGBTQ section. Fry and Spencer might well intend to have children (not that it's my business) and the technology exists for Fry to be the biological father if he chose to.