Becky Chambers’ novels, especially the Wayfarers series - deeply queer, character-driven sci-fi with a lot of kindness and compassion at its heart.
Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy - Another story where the aliens “save” Earth and all the complications that come after that (this is deeply reductive because these books are wild and brilliant).
Rivers Solomon’s work - also super queer sci-fi though much darker than Erin’s work