QueerDefenseFront

Just finished Kiss Her Once for Me. I absolutely loved it and would highly recommend it, but only if you're willing to read a lesbian romance. It's very queer in general, it has nonbinary characters, trans characters, bis, lesbians, polygamy and monogomy, and demisexuality. It's a fiction, and it is certainly a romance novel, but if that might be interesting to you, it's a wonderful queer book! It also deals with some of the issues many of us queer folk have with family and acceptance, but those aren't the central points of the story; it's part of being queer, and I think that those aspects add a lot to the story by being only small parts (kind of like acknowledging our problems in a healthy way without focusing on them too much that it becomes depressing). I'll update you with more as I get to them!

I read Suicide Notes. It's an extremely heavy book with about every trigger possible buried in it, just as a warning. I'm not going to say what exactly it covers from the LGBTQ+ spectrum, but it really let me see into a different world. Someone else's world. It's a fiction, but it's not a fantasy; it feels like living someone's real life. It's incredibly moving, but it is very depressing (the name is a good indicator), so keep that in mind before deciding to read it. I learned a lot from it, including things about myself. I'd highly recommend it if you're willing to get really sad about it; I feel it was very cathartic for me, and it's a great portal into the queer experience.

Also, there is a sequel called Every Star That Falls. I'll be reading that at some point, but likely not especially soon.

Finished How We Fight For Our Lives yesterday. It's a very powerful memoir from a black gay man that grew up in the Southern US. Very well written, very bug topics, lots of insight into his world, and the struggles he dealt with. Obviously it will deal with racism and homophobia; the book goes through his experiences understanding who he was. It was a good book! I'd recommend a read if that experience is interesting to you.

I'm gonna depart from the last 2 books for now (Stone Butch Blues got canceled bc of stock, so I've gotta buy it from somewhere else), as I bought a bunch of lesbian romances (I couldn't help myself). No clue if you would be interested in any of that, but let me know if you might be and I can review those, too!