reviews, releases and recommendations of LGBT media
Another installment of our new series! The formula stays exactly the same: I chose 10 popular titles and based on each of them I recommended 3 less popular and, of course, LGBT titles.
If you’re looking for new things to watch during Pride (or just in general), this is definitely your lucky day!
Discussion posts aren’t exactly a regular feature on this blog, to be sure, not least because we generally find ourselves wondering what exactly we can discuss. But today, we do actually have a topic for you.
And it relates to history.
I (Charlotte) made a tweet about 9 days back (here) asking people to read a nonfiction book about LGBT history sometime this month. Really, the reasoning behind it is what spawned this post.
So read on, and let us know what you think!
The whole mix for April is over 50 songs, so the choice of my ten absolute favourites to feature in the post was not easy at all. But for obvious reasons, I wanted to showcase Black artists specifically.
Like always, there are 10 songs with links to their videos (or lyric videos, since we’re getting to actually new stuff finally & not all of them have an mv yet!) below & a mix with way more songs at the end of the post.
And perhaps you need more music? Check out all my previous monthly posts right here!
Lesbians everywhere, hello, I have a gift for you! Well for other people, too, but lesbians specifically… I’m part of the blog tour for The Falling in Love Montage organised by Fantastic Flying Book Club! This means that not only do I have a review for y’all, but also a giveaway and a playlist!
Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. So she’s not looking for a relationship. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out.
But after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms.
Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up—and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real.
Ciara Smyth
Published: 9th June 2020
Goodreads | Barnes and Noble | iBooks | Book Depository | Kobo | Indiebound
Rep: lesbian mc & li, lesbian side character
Find the full schedule for the blog tour here!
This month we decided to add a little series to the blog, one that centres on reccing a piece of media, given another, more popular piece of media. It’ll come in four parts: books, films and TV, and music, and then straight media specifically.
So today’s post is the first of those parts. We’ve picked 10 pretty popular books or series (which may themselves have some form of LGBT rep), and recced you three other books depending on what you might like about that series.
(As ever, 🌈 means the author identifies as LGBT.)
Another day, another interview, and today we are talking with Renée Dahlia, whose novel, Her Lady’s Honor, comes out later this month. So, read on to discover how she gets her inspiration, her writing process, some amazing romance recs, and so much more!
You can also follow her on twitter.
Our first rec list of the month has a theme! And that is, books which fit the labels assigned to the colours in Gilbert Baker’s pride flag (with the added black and brown stripes, obviously).
So we took each label as a prompt and tried our best to come up with a theme, and a book each to pick that theme.
And if you want to take this as a book tag and do your own post, please do because we would love to see what you’d rec!
(As ever, 🌈 means the author identifies as LGBT.)
It’s time for our book of the month feature again, and this month that book is a collection of mythological short stories! First though, a disclaimer. This is shelved on the big rainforest-named site we do not mentioned as bisexual and gay/lesbian, and that information comes direct from publishers’ metadata. So it’s probably correct.
Only there are no reviews of the book to confirm or deny this. So if we’re wrong here, please pretend you didn’t see.
But it sounds an amazing book nonetheless, and one we can’t wait to read come August!
When writing this post, both me and Anna thought to ourselves that we could have sworn it was longer since we read certain books. Which probably sums up May as a whole, really.
Anna had a generally positive reading month, meanwhile I read some great books, but also suffered through some really really shit ones. About the usual then, really.
Also starting this month, if only because I got into podcasts, our “watched” section has become a “watched and listened to” section.
As a special Pride Month celebration, me and Anna decided that this year we were going to pick each other’s TBRs. Now, both of us are notoriously bad at actually keeping to TBRs, so this could go absolutely terribly, who knows!
We each picked 5 fiction (or poetry) books and one nonfiction book that we thought the other might like (or hoped). So check back in July to see how we got on!
(Oh, and keep following, because we have some exciting things for you this month!)
Wind: To match one’s body with one’s heart
Sand: To take the bearer where they wish
Song: In praise of the goddess Bird
Bone: To move unheard in the night
The Surun’ do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But Uiziya now seeks her aunt Benesret in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.
Among the Khana, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother.
As the past catches up to the nameless man, he must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya, and Uiziya must discover how to challenge a tyrant, and weave from deaths that matter.
Set in R. B. Lemberg’s beloved Birdverse, The Four Profound Weaves hearkens to Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. In this breathtaking debut, Lemberg offers a timeless chronicle of claiming one’s identity in a hostile world.
R. B. Lemberg
Published: 4th September 2020
Goodreads
Rep: trans mcs, nonbinary side character, past polyamory
CWs: deadnaming, misgendering, transphobia
It’s almost Pride!! Personally I can’t believe it’s already time for the best month in a year…
A lot of great books is coming out during Pride, but also it’s actually really amazing that Pride isn’t even the busiest month for LGBT releases this year. There are only around 80 and take it from me, guys, that’s number is far from being a record high.
So, without further ado, browse away!
(As always, the rainbow emoji indicates that the rep is ownvoices.)
Even when you’re an adult, sometimes what you really wanna do is watch teens being dramatic. There’s something very soothing about it. And it’s great to see them finally figure their life out and be at peace, so you can feel like a proud parent for a moment.
With that in mind, I compiled a list of ten TV shows about teenagers. There are quite a few genres here, so you should be able to choose something for yourself. Have fun!
Today’s interview is a very exciting one! Meryl Wilsner’s debut novel releases in just a few days (still time to preorder!) and promises an excellent slowburn sapphic romance featuring fake dating and everything that entails.
We spoke with them about their inspirations, how they work, and more! And you can listen to the character playlists they prepared for their book.
You can also follow them on twitter.
It wasn’t planned, but this post turned out to be pretty sapphic… It really wasn’t on purpose! Not gonna lie, though, love that for all of us.
In any case, you know the drill by now: there are 10 songs with links to their videos below & a mix with way more songs at the very end.
And perhaps you need more? Check out all my previous posts right here!
