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Rainbow Soup Series Spot
Join the Rainbow Soup series community! Learn how to submit your stories, poems, and reflections, and read selected contributions from LGBTQ+ voices celebrating queer life and creativity.


🌈 How Reading and Writing Can Heal a Queer Heart and Better Your Mental Health
Before I ever came out, I came home... to words. I came out to pages that didn’t judge, to journals that held space for feelings I didn’t yet know how to name. For many of us in the LGBTQ+ community, reading and writing have always been acts of survival and self-love. When the world felt too loud or too confusing, stories offered quiet understanding. Journals became safe places to breathe, dream, and rediscover ourselves. Today, science agrees with what queer hearts have alwa

Lavender Library Press
3 min read


🌈 Call for Submissions: Rainbow Soup for the Queer Soul Vol. 2
✨ If you're a writer, a journaler, a lyricist, etc., and you’ve ever thought, “I want to help others; i want to build community ” this is your chance. Submit your words, in whatever form they take, and add your voice to the next bowl of Rainbow Soup.

Lavender Library Press
2 min read


The First Ladle: How Rainbow Soup for the Queer Soul Series Began 🍲🌈
Sometimes the biggest movements start with the smallest sparks...
Rainbow Soup for the Queer Soul began as a simple poetry collection. It was just words on a page, written with love and honesty from a few friends...something to give back to the community...
But it quickly became something bigger. It wasn’t just a book...

Lavender Library Press
2 min read
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