June might be over but every month is Pride month on this blog! Because let’s be honest, to be able to recommend you as many books and movies, as we do, we must consume giant amounts of them on daily basis. No matter what it is.
So check out what Pride had to offer to us, and hopefully get inspire to read/watch something new!
What we read
Anna
Fire Season by K.D. Casey (bi mc with anxiety, Jewish Italian American bi mc with alcohol use disorder, sapphic side characters, gay hard of hearing side character) – 4 🌈 tw panic attacks, past alcohol & drug use [review]
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake (bi mc, lesbian mc, bi characters, lesbian character, sapphic side characters, nonbinary side character) – 3 🌈
Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White & Berenice Nelle (Latina lesbian mc, sapphic li) – 4 🌈
Young Men in Love ed. by Joe Glass & Matt Miner (all gay cast, Black mcs, Latino mcs, Korean mc, mc with a prosthesis, fat mcs, trans mc, bi li) – 4 🌈
Charlotte
Infamous by Lex Croucher (bi mc, British Chinese lesbian li, gay side character, agender side character) – 4 🌈 [review]
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield (sapphic mcs) – 2 🌈 cw body horror
Lavender House by Lev A. C. Rosen (gay mc, Mexican lesbian side character, lesbian side character, gay side characters, Jewish bi side character) – 3 🌈 cw suicidal thoughts, murder, homophobic slurs, homophobic violence (ch 10) [review to come]
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine (Lebanese-Syrian trans lesbian mc, Haitian lesbian li, trans side character, Lebanese gay side character, Palestinian gay side character) – 4 🌈 cw transphobia, torture, implied rape, violence
The King is Dead by Benjamin Dean (Black gay mc, Black gay li, gay li) – 3 🌈 cw homophobia, racism [review]
Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller (nonfiction) – 4 🌈
Midnight’s Twins by Holly Race (gay mc) – 2.5 🌈
A Gathering Midnight by Holly Race (gay mc) – 2 🌈
Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough (poetry) – 4.5 🌈
The Godbreaker by Mike Brooks (gay mc, nonbinary mcs, sapphic mc, trans side character) – 4 🌈 cw gore, violence [review]
A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy (gay mcs, lesbian side character) – 3.5 🌈 cw internalised homophobia, casual homophobia
Axiom by Rachel Marie Pearcy (sapphic mcs) – 1 🌈 cw homophobia
Final Atonement by Steve Neil Johnson (gay mc, gay li) – 1 🌈 cw police violence, police killings, antisemitism, racism, racial slurs, homophobia
Spacecraft by John McCullough (poetry) – 4 🌈
Other Names for Love by Taymour Soomro (Pakistani gay mc) – 3 🌈 [review]
Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley (achillean, sapphic, trans & nonbinary mcs) – 4 🌈
House of Slaughter, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, Chris Shehan, Werther Dell’Edera & Miquel Muerto – 4 🌈 cw blood, gore
Being Hospitable by Meka James (Black lesbian mc, Black bi mc, f/f) – 2.5 🌈
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor (lesbian mc, gay mc) – 4 🌈 cw past rape, domestic abuse, ableism [review]
Beast at Every Threshold by Natalie Wee (poetry) – 2.5 🌈
Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun (bi demi mc with generalised anxiety disorder, biracial Korean American lesbian li with ADHD, f/f, biracial Korean American achillean side character, Latine bi nonbinary side character, m/nb, Filipino sapphic trans side character) – 3.5 🌈 cw toxic parents, panic attacks
Pina by Titaua Peu, trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Tahitian gay mc) – 3 🌈 cw implied csa, domestic abuse, rape, suicide attempt
Hollow by Shannon Watters & Branden Boyer-White (Latina lesbian mc, sapphic li, f/f) – 4 🌈 [review to come]
Nevada by Imogen Binnie (sapphic trans mc, sapphic li, trans mc) – 1 🌈
Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine (lesbian mc, bi side character) – 4 🌈
The Fire Opal Mechanism by Fran Wilde (sapphic mcs) – 3 🌈
The Girl Whose Luck Ran Out by Gayleen Froese (gay mc, gay li, m/m) – 4 🌈 cw past sexual harassment
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (side m/m, Korean sapphic side character) – 3 🌈 [review]
Chef’s Kiss by T. J. Alexander (bi mc, nonbinary li, f/nb) – 1 🌈 [review]
🔥 There Is a Light by Ban Gilmartin ( biracial Indian Scottish gay mc with depression and anxiety, bi mc, m/m, Black trans side character, nonbinary side character) – 5 🌈 cw alcoholism, past drug use, past suicide, suicidal ideation
Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams (sapphic mcs) – 3 🌈
To the Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young (Korean sapphic mcs, f/f) – 2 🌈 cw rape, violence
Fabulosa! by Paul Baker (nonfiction) – 3 🌈
The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell (lesbian mc) – 3 🌈
What we watched (and listened to)
Charlotte
Chaos Walking (2021) dir. Doug Liman (gay characters) – 2.5 🌈
Rūrangi (2020) dir. Max Currie (gay trans mc, West Asian New Zealander achillean li, Māori bi mc) – 4 🌈 cw implied suicide, homophobia
Anna
Fire Island (2022), dir. Andrew Ahn (gay cast, Asian American mcs) – 3 🌈 tw drugs, off screen dubious consent
My Fake Boyfriend (2022), dir. Rose Troche (Black gay mc, Middle Eastern American gay mc, gay characters) – 2 🌈 tw biphobia
Music on repeat
Faraway Lover by Rayvon Owen
fire escape by Sean Doherty
Smile by Shea Diamond
Our Time Is Here by Xillan
Tayf (Ghost) by Mashrou’ Leila
Mi corazón es un poeta by Brian León
On the blog
- Our June book of the month.
- Interviews with Katharine Schellman, Melissa Karibian and Sierra Elmore.
- A review of If You Still Recognise Me.
- A rec list for our personal 100 books to read before you die.
- Guest posts by Emma, Hope, Peyton, Milena, and Gabriele.
- May’s music releases and July’s book releases.
- Our anticipated releases for July to December.
So, how was June for you? What did you read and watch?
