#read the first chapter so far and I’m already like……. Troy barnes clearly tearing up voice yall I never cry—

[wordsgood]

my second book of the year! (the first is always four quartets by t.s. eliot.) I’m a queer southerner and I can already tell this book is going to make me cry.

“Even with an attorney like Jeff Sessions whispering in the president’s ear, I would much rather be queer in Alabama than queer in the Castro District. I’m happier in Florida, where I can drive down to No Name Key on a whim as lightning shreds a stormy summer sky, than I would be in Brooklyn, where I could, I guess, take a train out to Montauk? And at a moment when some progressives are weighing the option of abandoning red states or even fleeing the country altogether, I think it’s important for people with the privileges I have - like financial security and whiteness - to do exactly the opposite: to dive deeper into the heart of this country and prove that it can’t possibly be unqueered.”

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#real queer america #Samantha Allen #amreading #bookblr #queer reads #read the first chapter so far and I’m already like……. Troy barnes clearly tearing up voice yall I never cry—