Description
Bachelorx is the latest book by award-winning queer, nonbinary author, filmmaker, and performer Skylar Lyralen Kaye (fae/they). Their work explores queer relationships and identity, gender expansiveness, and the ways people form families – both chosen and inherited.
The book follows Kaye, depicted through the protagonist Orpheus, newly single after a decades-long queer marriage, as they naively step into the challenges of contemporary online dating later in life. Orpheus experiences their inner life as made up of multiple voices, all of which are present as queer relationships unfold. The book traces attraction, desire, conflict, humour, and care as they are experienced across this plural inner world, offering a vivid and often funny portrait of queer intimacy.
At its core, Bachelorx takes an affirming stance: being gender nonconforming and multiple is not a problem to be solved. The book treats both gender and plurality as a meaningful way of being, shaped by experiences and relationships.
At a time when queer people are often pressured to simplify themselves, explain their identities, or make themselves legible to others, Bachelorx offers something sustaining: a book that trusts complexity, celebrates plurality, and treats queer love as expansive, resilient, and deeply human.
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