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The Lavender Rhino
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An online, indie LGBTQ+ bookshop helping readers discover queer books by genre and identity📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We ship anywhere in the US! Check us out at thelavenderrhino.com
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Some news 🫶
A Message from The Lavender Rhino: After an incredible year of celebrating queer authors and stories, we’ve made the difficult decision to pause operations. Due to a challenging bookselling market, uncertainty around Trump’s tariffs, and my own lack of bandwidth, this business is no longer financially feasible. But it’s not goodbye — we hope to reassess our business model and reemerge, in one form or another, in the future. I’m so grateful to everyone who supported our Kickstarter campaign, who purchased from our store, and who believed in us along the way. In the meantime, all of our remaining inventory will be heavily discounted on our site. Please help me clear out my apartment by buying a book or three. With love and gratitude, Dylan P.S. Keep telling queer stories and reading queer books! We need them now more than ever.
April 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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GET 50% OFF all of our used books 📣 These mesmerizing queer stories are very gently used and in pristine condition! 🏳️‍🌈📚 Shop discount used LGBTQ+ books here: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...
Gently Used Books - Now 50% Off The Danish Girl, Golden Boys, Razorblade Tears, Greenland, The World We Make, One Life
March 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth by reading books about women who love women 🧡🤍🩷 Check out these recs and browse more here: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

#sapphicbooks #wlw #sapphicreads #womenbooks #booksky 📚💙
Sapphic Books for Women’s History Month Sapphic Book Recs: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taiwan Travelogue, One Last Stop, The Priory of the Orange Tree, Black Cake, Cleat Cute
March 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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SALE ALERT 📣 Get 50% all (very gently) used books on our site for a limited time! Our used books are in pristine condition - you would’ve thought they were new if we didn’t tell you otherwise 📚🏳️‍🌈 Discount automatically applied at checkout 🛒 thelavenderrhino.com/collections/... #booksky 💙📚
Used LGBTQ+ Book Sale! For a limited time, 50% off all used books. thelavenderrhino.com Discount automatically applied at checkout
March 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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We’re all that fox rn 😵‍💫
“Stoned Fox” meme with text that reads: When your dystopian book goes from being entertainment to being an instruction manual
February 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Go beyond the gender binary with these non-binary stories! As always, you can browse more non-binary here: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/... 💛🤍💜🖤

#nonbinarybooks #nonbinary #queerbooks #booksky 📚💙
Books You Should Read with Non-Binary Representation on background with non-binary flag colors yellow, white, purple, and black Non-Binary Book Recs: The Pairing, Sargassa, No Road Home, He/She/They, No Gods No Monsters, Daniel Deconstructed
February 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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No LGBT without the T!! #transrightsarehumanrights
People holding a large sign that reads “Respect my trans honors or I’m gonna identify as a fucking problem”
February 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The horrors persist but so do we 👻 Check out these spooky queer books and browse more here: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

#booksky 📚💙 #horrorbooks #queerbooks
Queer Horror Books (with a pic of a creepy book). Swipe to see our spooky recs Spooky and Queer Novels: Don’t Let the Forest In, The Bright Lands, Boy Parts, Gideon the Ninth, Bath Haus, The Sins on Their Bones
February 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day Eve!! 🥰 Here are some queer romance novels to make you swoon! 💞🏳️‍🌈📚 Browse more here: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

#queerromancebooks #romancebooks #valentinesday #loveislove #queerlove #booksky 💙📚
Queer love is queer power. Love yourself, love each other, love your community Queer romance novels for Valentine’s Day. The Charm Offensive, The Pairing, In Memoriam, Single Player, Cleat Cute, Swimming in the Dark
February 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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why do people like these fr
Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus saying These deckled pages, they’re trying to murder me”
February 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Black history is queer history & Black history is American history. Let’s educate ourselves about the contributions & experiences of Black folks throughout history. Start by supporting queer Black authors & reading their work! 🖤🏳️‍🌈 thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

#blackhistorymonth #booksky 💙📚
Books by queer Black authors for Black History Month Giovanni’s Room, Unprotected, Isaac’s Song, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, Family Meal, and Congratulations the Best is Over!
February 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Trans stories matter!! 🏳️‍⚧️ Check out these books with transgender representation and browse more on our site. And always stand up for our trans friends and neighbors ✊ thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

#transbooks #transgenderbooks #transrightsarehumanrights #booksky 💙📚
Books You Should Read with Transgender Representation The In-Between Bookstore, Mad Honey, American Teenager, He/She/They, Boy Parts, In the Form of a Question
February 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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What did Lemony Snicket know?? 👀
Tweet: “remember when a series of unfortunate events was a book and not your life”
January 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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THESE COLORS DON’T RUN
Progress Pride Flag
January 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Don’t miss out on these hot new releases! 🔥 Browse the latest queer books here: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚

#newreleases #newbooks #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #gaybooks #transbooks #booksky 💙📚
New Queer Books Isaac’s Song, The In-Between Bookstore, Girls on the Rise, Single Player, When the World Tips Over, I Might Be in Trouble
January 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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QUEER BOOK TOTES! 🤗 You can now preorder our brand new tote bags - made with 100% cotton, they’re comfortable, durable, spacious, and a little cheeky 😉 Share your love of queer books and preorder yours now (supply is limited)!! 🏳️‍🌈📚👜 thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

#booksky 💙📚
NEW MERCH - Tote Bags - Now Available at thelavenderrhino.com with mockup images of the two bags
January 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Whether you’re asexual or an ally who wants to learn more, these books featuring ace representation or about asexuality itself are the perfect place to start! 🖤🩶🤍💜
Browse more here: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

#asexualbooks #asexuality #queerbooks #bookrecs #booksky 💙📚 #tlr
Books you should read with asexual representation graphic Don’t Let the Forest In; The Summer of Bitter & Sweet; ACE: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex; The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy; Gender Queer; No Gods, No Monsters
January 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Now available in paperback: the book everyone’s talking about! Get your copy of Martyr! in paperback (or hardcover) today 🤗💙📚 thelavenderrhino.com/products/mar...

#martyr #paperback #newbooks #queerbooks #booksky #tlr
Now in Paperback: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar - National Book Award Finalist - One of the NYT Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2024 “An existential comedy about the difficulty of finding beauty in banality and sense in suffering…” -The Atlantic
January 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Ah the good old days ✨
A tweet from Ava wolf reads “me, twelve years old, posted up in the young adult section of Barnes & noble with a hot chocolate” with a pic of a cartoon guy doing just that
January 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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This would fix us 😌
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs but it’s just “a good book and a cozy blanket”
December 23, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Jonathan Bailey is the man of the hour/year/decade and if hunky British lit lovers are your cup of (English Breakfast) tea, check out our roundup of queer books we think Mr. Bailey would probably lap up like a glass of milk🥛😋

Disclaimer: we don’t know what he likes to read, but we wish we did! 📚💙
Books that Jonathan Bailey would probably like - pic of Jonathan Bailey shirtless and reading Romance: Call Me By Your Name Graphic Novel: Heartstopper Biography: Sondheim - His Life, His Shows, His Legacy
December 16, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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🎁 Time for our next 2024 Holiday Gift Guide! Today’s guide features gift ideas for people with kids - check out this selection of inclusive children’s books! 👶👧🧒 Browse more: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...
Holiday Gift Guide for people with kids B is for Broadway, Pink is for Boys, Neither, Maiden & Princess, And Tango Makes Three
December 7, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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‼️ FRIDAY FEATURE ‼️ A New York Times Editor’s Choice, “Necessary Errors” chronicles the experiences of a young gay American expat in 1990s Prague in a country at the crossroads of Communism and Capitalism thelavenderrhino.com/products/nec...
#booksky #bookrecs #queerbooks #gaybooks 📚💙
Necessary Errors by Caleb Crain. “Post-Iron Curtain Prague is the resonant setting of Caleb Crain’s entertainingly digressive first novel…about a young expat coming into an understanding of what he believes and who he loves.” - Vogue
December 6, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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🎁 Introducing our 2024 Holiday Gift Guides! Every Wednesday & Saturday, we’ll be sharing gift ideas from our store for various people in your life (LGBTQ+ folks and allies alike!). Today’s guide features gift ideas for Broadway fanatics 🎭😍 thelavenderrhino.com/collections/... #giftguide #booksky 💙📚
Holiday Gift Guide: Gift Ideas for Broadway Fanatics Unprotected by Billy Porter, Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan, Fun Home by Allison Bechdel, Sondheim by Stephen M Silverman, Camp by LC Rosen, Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
December 5, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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NEW: I Might Be in Trouble by @danaleman.bsky.social! In this suspenseful dark comedy, a struggling writer wakes up to find his date from the night before dead & must decide how far he’ll go to spin this into his next book. Order now & get a signed bookplate! 👬☠️📕 thelavenderrhino.com/products/i-m...
Praise for I Might Be In Trouble by Daniel Aleman Cover of I Might Be In Trouble - “Signed copies available!”
December 3, 2024 at 5:03 PM