The Lavender Rhino

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.

Some news 🫶

Gently Used Books - Now 50% Off The Danish Girl, Golden Boys, Razorblade Tears, Greenland, The World We Make, One Life

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/...

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

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 📚💙

Used LGBTQ+ Book Sale! For a limited time, 50% off all used books. thelavenderrhino.com Discount automatically applied at checkout

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 💙📚

LOVE this project!! We’ll reach out to you soon, but if we forget feel free to email us info@thelavenderrhino.com

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We’re all that fox rn 😵‍💫

Non-binary books**

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

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 📚💙

People holding a large sign that reads “Respect my trans honors or I’m gonna identify as a fucking problem”

No LGBT without the T!! #transrightsarehumanrights

Thank you so much! 🫶🫶🫶

Love that!!

Thanks so much!! 💜

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

The horrors persist but so do we 👻 Check out these spooky queer books and browse more here: thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

#booksky 📚💙 #horrorbooks #queerbooks

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

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 💙📚

Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus saying These deckled pages, they’re trying to murder me”

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These are going fast - order yours today!

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!

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 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

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 💙📚

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Totes are now in stock!! Initial inventory is limited (we have 12 of each bag) so order now before they sell out 🤩 thelavenderrhino.com/collections/...

Tweet: “remember when a series of unfortunate events was a book and not your life”

What did Lemony Snicket know?? 👀

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THESE COLORS DON’T RUN

Thanks for being part of our community! 🫶

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

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 💙📚

Trans people exist.
Trans rights are human rights.
We see you, we love you, and we stand with you 🏳️‍⚧️✊🩵🩷🤍

Thank you!! 🥰

NEW MERCH - Tote Bags - Now Available at thelavenderrhino.com with mockup images of the two bags

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 💙📚

It’s great!! And we have signed copies 👀

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

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

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

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