Celebrate Pride by reading one of the queer Southern fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books published in the first half of 2025.

School Library Journal: Hubbard’s second novel finds 17-year-old Zeke stuck in a territory all too familiar with teenagers. Part of him hangs on to his past as the star pitcher on his high school baseball team, a straight-A student on his way to the University of Alabama, and destined to join the family law firm. Another part of him is him is struggling to accept his own identity as a gay man who wants to do everything he can to rebel against his father and the life he envisioned.

ALT: a woman in a purple dress is walking down the street .

Tennessee author Matthew Hubbard is back with another timely, heartwarming, and hopeful story of queer resistance and joy. Parnassus floor manager Katie Garaby chatted with Matthew about The Rebel&…

ALT: a hockey player is laying on his back on the ice and says yes .

An interview with Matthew Hubbard on “The Rebel’s Guide to Pride.”

Welcome to today's episode of Queerly Popular! Today, we are going to talk about the books The Darkness Outisde Us (2021) and The Brightness Between Us (2024) by Eliot Schrefer. They are a d...

Tennessee author Matthew Hubbard is back with another timely, heartwarming, and hopeful story of queer resistance and joy. Parnassus floor manager Katie Garaby chatted with Matthew about The Rebel&…