In the broader discussion on the depiction of various immigrant and diasporic communities in American literature, queer diasporic experiences are often pushed to the margins. The compulsory heteropatriarchy and cisnormativity propagated by nationalist circles in the hostland and the mainstream diaspora tend to exclude the complicated relationship of queer diasporic subjects with themselves and their community. Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty Names of Night (2020) and Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much (2020) explore the nuanced status of queer Arab Americans in the USA and their ancestral land in these novels. The Thirty Names of Night depicts the stories of three generations of Syrian Americans through the lens of Nadir, a transgender man living in New York, who comes to terms with his gender identity and the trauma of his mother’s death after discovering the journal of a renowned Syrian American artist. On the other hand, You Exist Too Much foregrounds the experiences of an unnamed, bisexual Palestinian American woman and her quest for her mother’s love against the backdrop of colonialist trauma. In this thesis, I analyze the queer diasporic experiences of Arab American characters and the way their quest for individual diasporic selfhood is tied to their connection to the community and finding their place in it. I draw on Dan Smyer Yu’s conceptualization of “diasporic selfhood” and Anne Marie Fortier’s study on “queer migrations” to scrutinize Nadir and Arafat’s narrator and how their connection to or disconnection from their respective communities explicates their sense of self. Moreover, I also incorporate Sandra Kim’s research on the concept of “postmemory” to understand how magical symbols, fabulist elements, and familial trauma underscore the characters’ transgenerational diasporic trauma, which is passed on from first-generation Syrian and Palestinian immigrants to later generations. Through this intersectional theoretical framework, I study the diverse depiction of queer Arab American experiences in the novels and the way the authors represent the importance of belonging to a diasporic community in actualizing the characters’ queer diasporic selfhood.