reviews, releases and recommendations of LGBT media
The final one of our guest posts for Pride takes you on a trip of the world in 160 films and short features! If you’re looking for a great way to close out the month, this is it!
This wonderful post was written for us by Gabriele, and you can follow them on twitter and their own blog too.
The last of our essay guest posts for the month comes from Milena McKay and is about her experiences of publishing in the sapphic romance community. Take a read! (And then go buy her books.)
Next up on the blog is Peyton who also blogs over at Word Wilderness! Take a read and let us know what you think!
Our next guest post comes from Hope and, as the title suggests, it’s about her experiences as a bookseller. So, in the interests of not blathering on here for any length of time, let’s get on!
As part of our Pride month celebrations, we decided that we weren’t going to write any posts for this blog. So, instead, we decided to hand it over to you guys! This first guest post is from Emma and features her favourite underrated books, so dive right in!
Another exciting guest post to help celebrate a book release today! K.D. Edwards’ The Hourglass Throne, the third book in the Tarot Sequence, is out now and K.D. very kindly wrote us a post about how he first came up with the idea of the series.
So, get yourself comfortable, and have a read!
We’re very excited today to be helping Katryn Bury celebrate her debut day with this post! Katryn’s book, Drew Leclair Gets a Clue, is out right now and we cannot wait to get to it. Katryn was lovely enough to write us this post, about coming out later in life, and how writing Drew Leclair helped her do it. If you’re still waiting on your copy to arrive, give this post a read in the meantime!
And if you haven’t yet got yourself a copy, you can do so right here!
Later than usually, but Goodreads finally rolled out their Choice Awards for this year. And that means it’s time for us to tell you which of the books they chose to highlight are LGBT!
This year, due to growing numbers & to give you a more accurate look, I decided to divide the books into ones where the LGBT characters are actually protagonists & ones where they’re only side characters, however relevant to the plot. You will hopefully see why that seemed like a logical move, especially in YA categories.
So take a look at what’s LGBT amongst Goodread’s choices! And if you would rather vote in a contest where it’s only LGBT books to choose from, we got you! Like every year, we’re running Reads Rainbow Awards & the voting is opened until December 7th!
Another day, another guest post, as the poets say. Or maybe they don’t, but they should do from now on. Which is to say we have already hosted a number of very talented people on the blog, and you can read all the previous guest posts here.
Today though we have for you an essay by Candas Jane Dorsey, whose newest book – What’s the Matter with Mary Jane? – comes out tomorrow (October 19th). And you will actually learn a thing or two not only about Dorsey, but about the book itself as well by reading it, so enjoy!
Today’s guest post is a very fun one, with Amara Lynn taking over our blog to lead us all on a tour of the real life locations in California that appear in their Mask series. Complete with pictures! So don’t let us keep you, dive right in, and let us know just how hungry you feel afterwards…
And if you want to know more about the series, check out Amara’s website. They’re also running a giveaway of the series (US only), that you can enter here.
Today’s post marks the beginning of our guest post series! We started having guest post slots way back when we celebrated our one year anniversary on here, but recently we’ve figured, why not expand that? So here we are!
This post is written by Anya Leigh Josephs, author of the upcoming Queen of All (9th June), and is a fascinating look at just what goes into fantasy worldbuilding, particularly the language used to describe your LGBT characters.
So, get yourself some lunch (or a coffee/tea/other hot beverage, depending on your time zone), and have a read of this!
We’re turning our awards into a yearly thing! Because really, if we spend all day every day promoting LGBT books, we should be able to celebrate them with awards, too! And what’s a better time to do it than the same as Goodreads’ Choice Awards.
The rules for the Goodreads’ Choice Awards stay the same: 20 categories and 15 books nominated in each in the first round. There are of course a few books nominated in more than one category, but for ease of conversation let’s say it’s 300 books.
Now. We know about a lot of LGBT books, but we’re aware it’s not possible we know about all of them that came out this year. Even with that in mind, and even only counting books that came out between January and October, we know about 1148. Just so you have some kind of frame of mind here.
Below you will find LGBT books nominated in each category. This year there is only one category without any LGBT nominees and that is Science & Technology, so frankly, that’s fair enough. Everything else? Well.
And of course! We prepared our own Alternative Choice Awards, where all the nominated books are LGBT. Below you have a link to cast your vote! Yes, you can write in your choices as well.
Or, regarding the erasure of the word ‘lesbian’ from YA contemporary literature. I don’t know if you’ve noticed (perhaps you haven’t) that, while the use of some labels to describe sexuality is (wonderfully) on the rise, the use of the label ‘lesbian’ has stagnated, to say the least. So this piece will, hopefully, provide an explanation of sorts of why this shouldn’t be.
A note to start: we’re limiting this discussion to mainstream YA contemporary because that is what’s most likely to get into young lesbians’ hands, especially if they are not so deep into talking about books on the internet.
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!
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.
