#Queer Book

[makingqueerhistory]

Queer poetry? Both modern and historical please!!

Queer poets from history to look into:

Yona Wallach

Ifti Nasim 

Langston Hughes

Assotto Saint

Anderson Bigode Herzer

Yosano Akiko

Sappho

tatiana de la tierra 

Walt Whitman 

Sophia Parnok

György Faludy 

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

Modern poetry books to check out:

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World Kai Cheng Thom

God Themselves Jae Nichelle

IRL Tommy Pico

Homie: Poems Danez Smith

Sacrament of Bodies Romeo Oriogun

Disintegrate/Dissociate Arielle Twist

I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry Halsey

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color Christopher Soto

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[softbeanofexistentialcrisis]

the way alex is fucking blushing, an uncharacteristic look on his face

the way alex looks down, as henry looks up

THE WAY LIGHT COMES FROM HENRY TO ILLUMINATE ALL OF ALEX'S SMILE

fellas i don't think I'm surviving this im gonna be frank with you

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[katy-l-wood]

Conifer is just doin' in her best.

Come check out my new book, "Camp Daze" over on Kickstarter now! It's a queer, apocalypse survival story with a focus on a more realistic apocalypse rather than the doom and gloom version you usually get in media.

Check out here.

#Kickstarter #Camp Daze Kickstarter #Bookblr #Self Publishing #Adventure Book #Queer Book #Apocalypse Book #My Writing #Writing #Poll

[gwydionmisha]

#Wyoming #Library #Queer Book #Book Ban #Censorship #News

[nicosraf]

Angels Before Man Valentine's Hardcover sale from Feb 7 - 14 !

Hello! From Feb 7-14, you can purchase Angels Before Man in hardcover for only $20.50 using this link , which you can also find through the link in my bio .

Unfortunately, this is USA only (I'm pretty sure), as it's fulfilled by IngramSpark.

Usually, I only get cents (!) from hardcover sales, but through a direct buy from Ingram, I get a tad more, so if you've ever considered owning Angels Before Man in hardcover, please consider getting it through the sale link!

The hardcover art is by the incredible @iliothermia and the dust jacket is by @siroc-co ! I also have to thank @swordvampire for their design work here also !!

The sequel to ABM is coming very soon, so now's the time to pick it up if you're interested! :>

#mine #angels before man #angels & man #lucifer #angels #writing #publishing #queer book #indie book

[lucky-numberme]

who would win? unethical fundamentalist [REDACTED] or three queer people and a homemade flamethrower???

Queer Book Draw Challenge 13/20— Camp Damascus by @drchucktingle

[ID: A digital illustration of Willow, Rose, and Saul in front of a trapdoor in the floor of a cabin. It is painted primarily in greens. The trapdoor is open revealing descending stairs and letting an eerie greenish light shaft into the night-dark room. Willow and Saul are standing before it, with Rose kneeling between them. All of them are facing away from the viewer. Willow has a camera strapped to her head and a hand on Rose's shoulder. Saul is wearing his flamethrower backpack. Cabin bunks flank the trapdoor and a Camp Damascus poster is partly visible behind the door. In the foreground, a window pane has a red security light, and an empty insect cocoon. A small cluster of mayflies circle the window, partially surrounding the characters. End ID]

Ko-fi | Commissions

#hoo boy i loved this goshdang book so much y'all #i cannot stop rotating it #my favorite book of the year fr #i love Saul so much #camp damascus #chuck tingle #love is real #queer book draw challenge #little museum #bugs #bug #book art #book fanart #queer book #queer horror #book illustration #rose darling

[apolline-lucy]

my sad (but happy!!!) little sapphic book THE ANATOMY OF DYING is coming out FEB 2 and it would mean the world to me if you could add it to your tbr ♡

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[duckprintspress]

Pre-Orders for “To Drive the Hundred Miles” by Alec J. Marsh NOW OPEN!

You can now pre-order the queer holiday novella To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh!

Serendipity, WA is filled with Christmas cheer, beautiful mountain views, and trans man Will’s feminist Wiccan family. Home for the holidays, he avoids their clumsy attempts at support by hiding in the local coffee shop and flirting with Bea, a friend from high school.

The beautiful landscapes can’t make up for the the realities of being queer in a small town, and Bea wants out. Will grabs for a prosperity spell, and finds a new way to connect to the magic he’s become estranged from. New romance and optimism get them through the holidays, ready to face their next problems.

Author Alec J. Marsh describes his novel To Drive the Hundred Miles as a Hallmark movie made queer. With a trans male protagonist and an immersive first-person point of view, this novella will draw you in and hold your attention from start to finish. Join Will as he struggles with his family’s acceptance of him, and as he struggles with his own acceptance of the potentially bright future offered to him by the cute barista Bea. Ringing in the season with lows and highs, a whole lot of coffee and pancakes, and a modest dollop of spicy f/m content, you won’t want to miss your chance to get this touching book—now as a gorgeous trade paperback for the first time ever!

Want a free preview of the story? We’ve got that! Download the first chapter as a pdf!

What can you get?

To Drive the Hundred Miles e-book (ePub and PDF formats)

To Drive the Hundred Miles print book

a spell jar recipe two-sided postcard

a circular sticker with a skyscape and mountainscale

a deer antler pendant

Patreon exclusive extra! People who support us on Patreon at the $10/month or $25/month level and also back the campaign will receive a hand-made snowflake ornament!

Want it all? Get a Bundle!

To Drive the Hundred Miles E-Book + Merchandise Package

To Drive the Hundred Miles E-Book + Print Book Package

To Drive the Hundred Miles E-Book + Print Book + Merchandise Package

Learn about the book, the author, the campaign, the budget, and fulfillment timeline, and more, by visiting the campaign pre-order page NOW!

#duck prints press #alec j. marsh #queer fiction #queer novella #crowdfunding #queer crowdfunding #queer book

[poetic-gays]

Y’ALL THIS BOOK LOOKS SO GOOD ALREADY (Snippet from The Pairing by Casey Mcquiston, out 8/6/24)

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[pansyboybloom]

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States, by Samantha Allen - A Review (8 out of 10)

"That's precisely the question we asked ourselves on November 9th. To stay, or not to stay? I found my answer at the top of the pride flag: there's no way of course that the color of its first stripe was a commentary on our geographically divided political climate. Red didn't mean Republican and blue didn't mean Democrat until the year 2000 anyway. Red is simply the first color in the rainbow, not a sign from the cosmos for me personally. But back when Gilbert Baker first designed that now ubiquitous emblem of LGBT rights in 1978 he did want that red stripe to signify life."

Samantha Allen, a reporter, wife, and transgender woman who was raised in Utah amidst the heart of the Mormon Church and left the South and its redness behind after beginning her transition, asked herself the questions that many Americans, especially queer ones, asked themselves after Donald Trump's win in the United States Presidential race in 2016. But, instead of moving out to Canada, Samantha decided to move down. Down to Utah, Texas, Indiana, and other red states that had seemingly made it clear that she and people like her weren't wanted, to answer a question that she couldn't shake:

Why weren't the Southern queers leaving?

"What makes an oasis, an oasis?"

In Real Queer America, Allen snakes through the south to pockets of queer safe havens ranging from queer bars in small rural towns, to LGBT shelters across from Mormon temples, to protests in Austin, TX, and places of safety throughout all of red America, no matter how small

As a Southerner, this book called to me. It was written with love, with the respect that only a Southern queer can give to other Southern queers. Allen examines the parts of the queer South that those outside its borders might struggle to understand, like LGBT youth political groups that work with the Mormon church to secure transgender rights in Utah. The chapter on Utah struck me in particular. I won't pretend to have any good opinions of the Mormon establishment, but the fondness Allen has for the community who raised her, even after it hurt her, is mind-blowing. Hearing from people like an ex-Mormon radical who works hand in hand with the church to secure LGBT safety, a mother who is deeply supportive of her transgender son because of her Mormoness, not despite it, a gay youth rights advocate who stated in the heart of Mormonism out of an unshakable faith in the goodness in the people of Utah, and, most remarkable, a trans man who has been told by the church that, should he continue his medical transition, he would be excommunicated, but chooses to love God anyways.

Of course, another favorite chapter was that on Texas. As a Texan, I am all too familiar with names like Paxton and Abbott, but also Wendy Davis and the Briggle family. Allen shows the Briggle family as human, and continues that humanity into her trek into the Rio Grande Valley, an often forgotten part of the state, demonized by both the North for its poverty and the South for its tie to immigration from Mexico. Allen approaches the complexities of race interacting with queerness with attempted grace, but her analysis seems to fall flat-- something she acknowledges later on, in Indiana, in which she has in-depth conversations with a black trans woman on how while Allen may feel safe holding hands with her wife here, her blackness will forever keep the 'queer eutopia' she lives in from truly being safe.

She tells Allen: "There is a difference, it seems, between an oasis and a eutopia. When you're in a desert, an oasis can be a single well of water in the sand, or in this case, one college town with an incredible queer bar. A watering hole doesn't make the desert safe, it just makes it habitable. Even then, when you arrive at the refuge that is Bloomington, so much of your experience here depends on the identities you bring with you. And eutopias? Well, eutopias don't exist. If they did, every LGBT person in the country would move there, and queer making would end."

Allen also carries some of the uncomfortable, if not plain disheartening, pro-veteran beliefs quintessential to the South, spending a long time speaking in depth with veterans surrounding Trump's trans military ban. She repeatedly references a shirt she saw while at an Austin rally: I fought for your right to hate me. The reverence she holds and the anger she feels for veterans was upsetting at times and showed further Allen's privilege.

Still, Allen's beliefs need not be perfect in a book about how the Northern need for perfection leads to the Southern LGBT community being abandoned. This abandonment is mentioned in the Indiana chapter when discussing Mike Pence and his 'return to religious freedom' act, which lead to North wide economic protests and boycotts-- that affected the queers of Indiana far more economically than it did Pence. It was grassroots organizations and local state fighters that pushed back the collection of bills, and many, like the ones Allen interviewed, felt abandoned by blue states that seemed to care more about protesting through inaction than action.

Grassroots education, safety, activism, and community are a recurring theme in Real Queer America, unsurprising to any rural or Southern queer. One such example is the Back Door, a queer bar-- not gay, but specifically queer, an active choice maybe by the "dyke daddy" of the club-- that serves as a bastion of fun and sex in a rural town, but also as a place to come together and practice activism.

"The 'Back Door' is a perfect example of the red state queer ethos-- that being politically active is a responsibility, not a choice."

Allen stresses one thing above all: community. The queer chosen family, and the queering of friendships, she argues, are just as threatening to the average bigot as her sex life or her gender identity, if not more. Together, Southern queers thrive-- something many Northerns don't see. Allen critiques Northern journalism from her own writing background, citing that Northerners only care about Southern queer lives when a politician is passing a bathroom bill, a gunman is shooting up a night club, or a high school has their first trans homecoming king, not out of a desire to share his joy, but to further stress how backward the South is. Amidst the shared meals with bisexuals in Tennessee, watching the dancing queers of the Back Door, the support groups across from Mormon temples, the protests in Austin, and more, Allen asks the reader, is the most radical thing to do as a queer person to simply live and love? Is living, thriving, fighting together, arm in arm-- is all of this what being queer in the South means? She finds answers in each place she goes, and while I will leave her answer up to the reader, I find her comment when meeting with the trans cafe owner of Allen's college youth to shine clear:

"Watching Rachel run her own small business in south central Indiana was my first vision of a future where I turn out okay."

Please, check to see if your local library or bookstores have Real Queer America before buying on Amazon! Let's support local reading!

#real queer america #real queer america: lgbt stories from red states #real queer america lgbt stories from red states #samantha allen #queer book recs #queer books #queer nonfiction #queer media #queer book #trans books #trans book #trans media #trans author #queer author #book review #queer book review #long post #ant reads

[the---hermit]

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Kabi Nagata

As you might know I am really into graphic novels, but I don't really read any manga. I have never really been drawn to the art style, so it's not a type of read I usually even look for. I had heard a lot about this book when it was first translated into Italian, and when I randomly found it in a bookstore I had to get it. I am actively trying to get more queer books onto my shelves, and this was an amazing addition. I ended up reading it in one sitting, and it got me very emotional multiple times. The focus point of this manga is the personal experience of the author who got to 28 years old without having any kind of relationships, and for this reason she decides to have her first time with a sex worker. In actual fact the book is about much much more. The author presents herself in total honesty and shows so much vulnerability addressing her problems with depression, anxiety and eating disorders. She is very open about how these things affected her, as well as her repression of the idea of sex in general, not only due to her queerness. The latter point as well as the depression and loneliness talk is what really got me. I had to hold back tears so often I am almost embarassed to say. You can tell how open heartedly the author was writing her story, she is incredibly honest about her thoughts and her fears, she just lays it all in front of you. I appreciated that a lot. I think this manga can be a great addition to your shelves, I will reread it for certain, and I will be looking for the other book the author published on the topic of her queerness. This book also confirms that even though I am normally not a big memoir reader if it's in manga/graphic novel form I will love it. I don't know what it's about graphic versions of memoirs and biographies but I adore them.

I read this book for the own voices prompt of the jumbo reading challenge.

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[kat-writing]

it's my birthday weekend!!

(Strawberry Lemonade) is on sale for $0.99 and (Affogato) is free this weekend!!

summaries under the cut:

Strawberry Lemonade

The first time Scott Keller sees Min Cho, he falls flat on his face on the volleyball court. He can't believe that someone so perfect could exist at the same school as him. Three years of brief glances and bashful smiles later, the stars align and Scott finally has a class with Min. Day by day, Scott and Min grow closer until their friendship leaves the confines of the classroom: to Scott's car on a rainy day, to Min's room to watch TV after school, to late-night text conversations that make Scott resent the need to sleep. Senior year is stressful for Scott, between being the volleyball team captain and preparing his portfolio to apply to art school in San Francisco, all while Min is working on a dance audition for a performing arts school in New York. But, Scott knows that he can take solace with Min—as long as he ignores the mounting pressure that he and Min only have until the end of the year to spend together.

Affogato

In this sequel to Strawberry Lemonade, the triumph of getting into college dims as distance stretches between Scott and Min. Twenty-five hundred miles separate San Francisco and New York City, but the two-hour time difference doesn't feel like much—until it does. Min told Scott that they couldn't actually be together, but that doesn't stop their feelings from being real. They exist in the nebulous gray area between friends and something more, and every hint of what could've been stings in Scott's chest. Talking to Min every day and getting teased by his San Francisco friends about how "New York Min" is "definitely just your friend, sure" has to be enough to tide Scott over. Despite the distance between them, Scott and Min know they have to fight not to grow apart. Their lives speed up as time stretches on; Scott endures homesickness, disappointment when he and Min compare academic calendars to try to plan visits, and inconceivable levels of stress in college. Living in dorms, making friends, and going to class are welcome distractions, but Scott can't let go of the desire to see Min.

#cover art by Hotdrinks on tumblr #queer book #queer romance #mlm #lgbt books #lgbt #friends to lovers #slow burn #queer author #strawberry lemonade #affogato #independent author #indie author

[katy-l-wood]

No one goes into the Pits.

No one understands the magic of the Pits.

For those who try, there are consequences.

--

When Clarabella's girlfriend Emilia goes missing Clarabella tracks down the only person who can help: her outlaw older sibling Royal, who she hasn’t seen in three years.

Royal knows more about the strange magic of the world than anyone, more than they should. Magic Clarabella doesn’t believe in. Not until the path to find Emilia leads deep into the mysterious and magical Pits that stretch along the spine of the continent, forcing her to rethink everything she ever believed. But once Clarabella, Royal, and Royal's gang enter they discover Royal can no longer leave. Now Clarabella has to choose who she loves enough to save: Royal, or Emilia?

Back the project here.

If you back a physical tier in the first 48 hours, you'll get an exclusive creature sticker of a little firey frog(ish) friend.

Check out the book trailer too:

Back the project here.

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[winglesswriter]

As a Christmas gif to MM readers, I offer my post-apocalyptic MM novel BUILT ON RUINS for free. You can get it on Amazon from December 21 to 25.

Built on Ruins is a tender romance between two tough and loyal men who live in an unforgiving world. It's an emotional rollercoaster with a well-deserved happy ending. If you liked Mad Max, The 100, or The Last of Us and wished it was gayer, don't hesitate to check out this book.

#queer book #mm romance #free book #achillean romance #writers of tumblr