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10 Queer Travel Books to Read This Summer
There are few experiences that match the same liberating and transformative feeling of travel. In literally moving outside of our daily routines and surroundings, perhaps the greatest souvenir we bring back home from our journeys are the new parts of ourselves we uncover. And from beach reads to guidebooks, travelogues to adventure comics, reading intuitively feels part and parcel with our travels as a safe space we can tap into to explore ideas. But whether through cultural stigma, discriminatory legislation, or a lack of accommodating resources, the obstacles can be complicated and various for LGBTQ+ travelers. Through sharing stories of how queer people move and exist in the world, the ability to travel feels just that much more available knowing there's a greater community of people who understand and still claim journeying as a right rather than a privilege. By no means a comprehensive list, our suggestions for LGBTQ+ reads are more of a sampler of the vast and growing library of queer books on travel. From the eerily beautiful highways of West Texas to a river boat in Phnom Penh, this compilation of some of our favorite queer books plots out a humane and exciting vision of the world one paragraph (or comic panel) at a time.
