• All Recommended,  Book Recs,  Literature

    Reads Rainbow Awards 2019: The Results

    10 December, 2019

    It’s that time!!! The votes are in, and we’re about to announce the results of our Alternative Choice Awards (Goodreads who?). You’ve been voting for 5 weeks and now we have our winners*.

    *In the interests of promoting as much LGBT lit as we can, we were actually just going to put top 5, but then some categories had multiple books with the same number of votes, so, as you can see, five is somewhat of an… underestimate?

    Anyway. If you’re interested:

    See the breakdown of results here!

    Otherwise, happy scrolling!

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  • Wrap Ups

    Wrap-up: November 2019

    1 December, 2019

    November was a less busy month on the blog, after the hecticness that was October (and is going to be December too…), but we still posted a fair bit, and, on a whim, started our own LGBT lit choice awards (which may or may not continue next year).

    And I (Charlotte) for once watched more things than Anna did (please note this down because it’ll never happen again).

    So, here’s our wrapup! As ever, the fire emoji indicates a reread/rewatch.

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  • All Releases,  Music,  Music Releases

    Music Releases: LGBT songs of March 2019

    29 November, 2019

    I’m not going to lie, guys. Choosing only ten songs each month is really hard work! But I needed an even number for all the months so really, I played myself…

    This also brings me to another point: obviously, if I put a song from a full album on this list & not a single, I encourage y’all to check them all out! Check out the artists in general!

    Here you can also check out my 10 fav songs of January and February.

    (And remember, there’s a Spotify playlist with all the March songs at the end of the post!)

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  • Book Club,  Literature

    Book Club: December Read

    25 November, 2019

    In November, we tried out a new thing of offering multiple novellas to pick and choose from. This month we’re going back to a single book (though a fairly short one).

    So, you voted, and the genre we’re reading is historical! Don’t worry, though, there’s still plenty of time to read November’s choice(s) before we get to it.

    But, without further ado, here’s our choice.

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  • All Releases,  Book Releases,  Literature

    Book Releases: December 2019

    22 November, 2019

    December is not a good month for LGBT books: there are only 27 on this list. If you remember, there were months this year with over 70 releases… But then, people are busy celebrating holidays and planning books for next year! And the December books are still amazing, anyway! So let’s check them out!

    Real quick before we start, for your convenience:

    all our posts about LGBT books that came out in past months
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  • All Recommended,  Book Recs,  Literature

    Book Recs: Classics (I)

    15 November, 2019

    I have to put my hand up here and admit me and classics don’t tend to get along. There’s just something about them that seems so dry. But then again, how do we define what constitutes a “classic” and what kind of social forces influence that? (But that’s a discussion for another time.)

    Anyway to cut that long discussion short, classics tend to be white and straight and about men. Or the ones that have been long considered classics (isn’t it notable how a lot of the gay classics are more “modern” if you will – but that is also a discussion for a different time). Here you will obviously find only gay classics.

    Before we start, a confession. I haven’t read any of these, so I’ve dispensed with the “why you should read it” sections.

    (Also please rec me more, as ever!)

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  • All Releases,  Music,  Music Releases

    Music Releases: LGBT songs of February 2019

    12 November, 2019

    Yes, I was very serious when I said I plan on catching up with those posts in some reasonable, timely manner! And frankly, I’m just really excited about all my choices and want to share with you guys as soon as possible!

    The ten songs I chose January are here!

    So without a further ado, let’s go!

    (And remember, there’s a Spotify playlist with all the February songs at the end of the post!)

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  • All Reviews,  Book Club,  Literature

    Book Club: The Disasters

    11 November, 2019

    Took us a hot second to write down the reviews, but come on guys, it just be like that sometimes… The important thing is that we’re here and we’re ready to talk about the book! Hopefully you have read it with us and we can actually have some fun chatting!

    And don’t forget: for November we chose three novellas! They’re so short, you have no excuse not to read at least one of them!

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  • All Recommended,  Book Recs,  Literature

    Book Recs: Sapphic YA Contemporary (I)

    8 November, 2019

    I’m back with another f/f rec list today! This time, I’m reccing YA contemporary novels. Contemporary, because that’s what you voted for. YA because I decided (or rather, Anna told me) to split the rec lists by age (adult/NA/YA). And because I always* do what Anna says, that’s what’s happening.

    (*this is not true.)

    Because there is (comparably) a lot of f/f YA contemporary, I’m starting off part one of this lot of rec lists focusing on that which is less well-known (and maybe one or two five upcoming releases I’m incredibly excited for, just to whet your appetite). I’m also including ones which, while they do not have an f/f relationship, do have a sapphic mc.

    As ever, all the previous posts are here.

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  • Discussions and Guest Posts

    Discussion: Goodreads Awards & LGBT Books

    6 November, 2019

    As I’m sure you’re aware, the Annual Goodreads Choice Awards just started yesterday. And as you also probably already know, the list of official nominees isn’t the final list of nominees. But it is a start & it was put together just the way it was & as someone who co-runs an LGBT media blog, I wanna talk about it.

    We have 20 categories and 15 books nominated in each. Some books are nominated in more than one category so it’s not actually 300 books, but it’s close enough. And how many of those 300 books do you think are LGBT ones? Before you start guessing, though, let me remind you that we have a list of all LGBT releases of the year that we could find & it’s currently over 560 books long.

    Below you will find LGBT books from each category. (Not) Surprisingly there are a few with no LGBT nominees but I still numbered the categories as listed on Goodreads. (Also, if you notice I missed any books, please let me know so I can edit the post. I might know a lot but I surely don’t know everything!)

    When I told Charlotte I want to write this post, it took her basically no time to decide that another thing we need are LGBT Alternative Choice Awards & she set hard to work to put them together. The categories are pretty much the same, but the nominees are – obviously – all LGBT.

    Here’s a google form where you can cast your vote!

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  • Interviews

    Author Interview: Adrienne Tooley

    4 November, 2019

    Today’s interview is very special in the way that it get pretty personal at some point. We’re extremely grateful that Adrienne felt comfortable enough to be this honest with us. And with you, guys.

    We’re also just ridiculously excited about her upcoming F/F fantasy book! It comes out in 2021 and y’all should be looking forward to that, too, if you’re not already.

    So let’s just get to it!

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  • Wrap Ups

    Wrap-up: October 2019

    2 November, 2019

    October was not very good to us when it came to reading. Personally I was in a lowkey reading slump (yet again), but I don’t know what is Charlotte’s excuse for reading barely ten books… (edit: that’s a lie, I read only 10 LGBT books not 10 books total)

    To be fair Charlotte made me watch 9-1-1 and we’ve both been thinking about little else since.

    In any case! Here are the LGBT titles we consumed last month! And once again, the fire emoji indicates a reread/rewatch.

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