#lgbt lit

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

GRIT: a poetry collection by silas denver melvin

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The polite transphobia from adult women is no longer keeping you hostage as you sob an earthquake in your ex-boyfriend's car. Grit is a transgender coming of age story. There are no beautiful rainbows here, no whispers, but raw cries from somewhere primal.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this poetry collection, but I think I've read some of the author's poems here on tumblr.

#grit #silas denver melvin #polls #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #poetry #trans man #own voices

[velvettapeworm]

Some of you are familiar with my work already through itch.io or this blog, but I want to say that my book, So Sang the Riverman—a story which tells of the primordial world's destruction after the spirit of life, Fervor, makes off with the heart in Decay's grave—is now available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. If you have a soft spot for gay romance and "indulgent" prose, have yourself a look, and if you do decide to buy a copy, thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting my work!

#gothic fiction #so sang the riverman #vt writing #gothic literature #gay fiction #gay literature #queer fiction #queer romance #lgbtq books #queer literature #gay romance #lgbt literature #lgbt lit #indie fiction

[androgynealienfemme]

"Some faggots were more beautiful than other faggots. The beautiful ones only wanted to touch and be touched by the other beautiful ones. Orchard was the most beautiful of all and all the beautiful faggots wanted to touch Orchard. One day Orchard made himself ugly, very ugly. When the beautiful faggots saw what he had done, they wept and then turned their backs on him and forgot him. Only the ugly faggots now wanted to touch Orchard. So he gathered them all together and took them to a mountain top where they lived in harmony and joy. As they learned to lobe each other more and more, Orchard and the other ugly faggots grew more and more beautiful. After many years they floated down from their mountain top into the town. The beautiful faggots were astounded by these newly arrived creatures. The beautiful faggots wanted to touch them all and love them forever. But Orchard said, "No, you are too ugly for us. Go and love the ugliest faggot you can discover and then we will love you in return." So they left the town and did as they were asked to do, spreading the notion that to love the ugliest will make both beautiful. At last, one day, all the faggots everywhere were so beautiful that no one had to think about it any more. Now they all loved and touched each other with great pleasure and ecstasy."

"A Faggot Fable" The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions, Larry Mitchell (1977)

#the faggots and their friends #the faggots and their friends between revolutions #Larry Mitchell #gay lit #gay history #vintage gay lit #70s gay lit #queer history #queer lit #lgbt #lgbt history #lgbt lit #gay literature #historic gay literature

[that-bisexual]

yesterday I took step two in hinting at my dad I’m bi. I asked for a queer book. But not one of those bad romance ones, it’s one where the characters are just doing stuff and then realizing their in love and lesbian but there’s still a story besides the romance. It’s called the lucky list and the cover has two girls holding hands but it’s not like super in your face that it’s queer

I was going to ask for an Alice oseman book like radio silence or solitaire but I thought this was interesting.

#lgbtq #lgbt #pride #queer #lgbt pride #bisexuality #lesbian #pansexual #gay #lgbt books #lgbt literature #queer lit #lgbt lit #coming out #bisexual #lgbtqia

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

Looking for a good read about or by sapphic women or gay/bi men?

Look no further! I gave all these books 4 or 5 stars when I read them. 

Lesbian and bisexual women (subject and author): 

Two or three things I know for sure by Dorothy Allison (lesbian memoir)

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (graphic novel, lesbian memoir)

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donahue (historic fiction, bisexual woman and lesbian wlw relationship)

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabi Rivera (ya contemporary, lesbian mc)

Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (historic fiction, butch/femme wlw)

Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden (ya lesbian classic)

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (historic fiction, lesbian classic)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (historic fiction, bisexual woman and lesbian wlw relationship)

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney (graphic novel, memoir- even though it’s mainly about bipolar disorder mostly she is bisexual and it’s mentioned in the novel)

Lesbian or Bisexual Woman author (not necessarily an LGBT subject): 

Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own all by Virginia Woolf (bisexual author)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (bisexual author)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (lesbian author)

The Yellow Wallpaper (and other stories) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (bisexual author)

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn (bisexual author)

Passing by Nella Larsen (bisexual author)

Transgender Topics: 

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion (LGBT history- only concerns relationships between historic AFAB couples and AFAB people who lived as men for many reasons- wider career opportunities and being able to marry a woman were the two most common reasons cited across all stories chronicled) 

Gay Men and Bisexual Men (subject and/or author): 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (historic fiction, Greek Myths)

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (gay author, essays on race in America)

Boy meets Boy by David Leviathan (ya contemporary mlm romance)

If We were Villains by M. L. Rio  (ya, dark academia, mystery)

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (historic fiction, bisexual mlm, ya) The two sequels also have more lgbt characters. 

#these are my owned lgbt books #that I've read! #my owned tbr has more lgbt lit #and I've read a bunch of lgbt books from the library system or that I borrowed from my school's pride collective library long ago #some of the best ones I ever read are not here #but that will be another post #most of these are 4 or 5 stars #but some of these are heavier than others #books #lgbt lit #annie on my mind #nancy garden #juliet takes a breath #gabi rivera #my lesbian experience with loneliness #kabi nagata #emma donoghue #charlotte perkins gilman #virginia woolf #james baldwin #david levithan #fannie flagg #sarah waters #emilie autumn #radclyffe hall #mackenzi lee #m. l. rio #madeline miller #bookblr #I'm currently rereading the well of loneliness for a paper I'm writing in my grad class

[cultofsappho]

CEMETERY BOYS SEQUEL.

IN JULIAN'S POV.

"SIXTH SENSE MEETS FINAL DESTINATION"

#cemetery boys #aiden thomas #yadriel vélez flores #yadriel x julian #julian diaz #ya fiction #lgbt lit #my favorite book is getting a sequel #im going to be so annoying about this

[tdcloud]

There are many stories told about the Piper, and none of them are good. A being born of chaos... Do you think Rehan will survive meeting him?

Infaust drops 5.1.24. Read the first chapter for free here: https://tdcloud.itch.io/infaust

#indie author #infaust #dark fairytale #dark fantasy #dark romance #horror #horror novel #lgbt lit #amwriting #bookrec

[moonshinemagpie]

Happy to see these books in the library. I've read all of these writers for years and remember when their queer romances were relegated to small press ebooks and self-publishing only.

Which isn't a diss to any form of publishing—KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, and Roan Parrish all still self-publish, too–but it is very cool to find quality paperbacks of their work in such an accessible place.

#cat sebastian #kj charles #roan parrish #romance #booklr #lgbt #lgbtlit #lgbt lit

[burningvelvet]

jude law and stephen fry in wilde (1997)

#art #aesthetic #jude law #cinema #film #lgbt #art history #dark academia #stephen fry #oscar wilde #wilde 1997 #wilde #lord alfred douglas #bosie #bosie douglas #queer #lgbt cinema #lgbtq+ #lgbt lit #lgbt art #love #romance #breakup #decadent #literature #writing #books #the picture of dorian gray #queer cinema #english lit

[indogaysian]

“The darkness hung in front of me for a long time, like a fog; only there was something new in it, a flash like teeth, sharper than I could bear. Not hatred – but something that would have torn me apart if it could.”

Bridget Collins, The Binding.

#words #quotes #the binding #bridget collins #literature #lit #* #lgbt lit #queer lit

[gaywriting]

was out shopping for christmas gifts and of course i couldn't stop myself from getting something for myself as well, as a fun little treat 💝 i'm in my exam period right now, so there won't be any reading for fun for a bit, and i have told myself not to purchase anything more for myself until i'm done with my assignments, so we’ll see. but here's what i got:

Heartstopper vol. 3 by Alice Oseman

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Till Death Do Us Bard by Rose Black

i'm slowly collecting the Heartstopper books whenever i have the extra money and it was on sale, so i thought i'd grab it. Someday i'll have the whole set hehe 😅🤩 soooo many people have told me to read The Cruel Prince, so i thought i'd finally at least buy it, so i can get it done i mean i do love me a good fae setting ✨ sometimes i grab books that i hadn't planned on but while browsing i read the back and it compelled me to buy it. this happened here but it's a book thats seemingly straight up my alley and i'm so excited to read it!! a fantasy setting and its about a gruff warrior who's searching for his lost bard husband. My kind of book 😍💝

#gaywriting #bookblr #writblr #book tumblr #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #book haul #books

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

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Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.

Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.

After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics―all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.

Manhunt is a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror.

Mod opinion: I read this book and I really liked it. It's a dark book that deals heavily with triggering topics, but I really enjoyed reading it.

#manhunt #gretchen felker martin #polls #trans books #trans literature #lgbt lit #trans lit #lgbt boks #lgbt literature #horror #trans woman #trans man #own voices

[bidotorg]

Aaron Acevez talks about the inspiration behind his book This Is Why They Hate Us! #BiBookClub 📖

#lgbt #queer #bisexuality #bi #lgbtq #lgbtqia #bi pride #bi visibility #bivisibility #representationmatters #latin men #latino #ya books #lgbt books #lgbt literature #queer literature #queer books #lgbt lit #queer representation #representation #diversity #queer things #mexican literature #ya novels #book reading #book recommendations #readers #book review #author #fiction

[androgynealienfemme]

"As they grow older the queer men learn from the faggots all the techniques for telling who will do what with whom. As they grow older, they learn to identify each other and occasionally two or three queer men will become friends. Such friendships are lived through in secrecy. These friendships are dear to the queer. men for they are the only contact they have with love. It is with their friends that they elaborate a sensibility of self-preservation. They share with their friends that detachment which comes form leading two lives, one of which is respectable and admired and the other of which is despised and fugitive.

The queer men continue to hope that the men will stop caring so much about who is or who is not sucking cock. If the men would stop caring so much, the queer men could then be men, only men who suck cock. They could eliminate the life that is despised and fugitive.

But alas, the men continue to care too much. So the queer men have to continue to hope too much and continue the life that is despised and fugitive.

This hoping and this constant detachment from their lives leaves the queer men tired. They fall easily into stupors and cant and irrelevancy. Their energy is low so they can only manage to carry on as they have always carried on. There is no energy to merge the acceptable and the unacceptable into something new and probably also unacceptable."

The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions, Larry Mitchell (1977)

#the faggots and their friends between revolutions #the faggots and their friends #Larry Mitchell #gay lit #queer lit #gay history #queer history #gay man lit #lgbt lit #lgbtq+

[somuchthatisnothere]

•currently reading•

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

#the book eaters #sunyi dean #emerging adult #fantasy fiction #bookblr #lgbt lit #coffee #dark acadamia aesthetic #currently reading

[sharry-arry-odd]

"In all of history, there has only been one person who was brought back to life in such a way." Wallace gaped at him. "Holy shit. I'm like Jesus?" The Manager scowled. "What? Of course not. His name was Pablo. He lived in Spain in the fifteenth century."

Under the Whispering Door, by TJ Klune

#page 355 #under the whispering door #tj klune #t.j. klune #lgbt #lgbt lit #queer #queer lit #death #dying #grief #quote #quotes #literature #book #booklr #reading #pablo #wallace #wallace price #the manager #jesus #resurrection #what? of course not. don't be ridiculous wallace. jeez. #fave