Results for: book
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That Was the Era: Photographer Phyllis Christopher on Her Book “Dark Room”
“It was a political statement to portray sex, to portray queer sex, as it was to demand civil rights in the daytime.”
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Quiz: Which Trans YA Book Should You Read This Pride Month?
Check out an anti-censorship toolkit to help get trans YA books in the hands of youth who need them, and then take this quiz to find out which one you should read next.
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It’s Lit: Queer Youth on an Online Book Club Club That Became Family
“Well the premise combined two of my favorite things: being gay and reading, so I was naturally intrigued.”
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In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”
Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.
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Kemi Adeyemi’s Feels Right Explores the Politics of Black Queer Nightlife
Adeyemi told me when we talked in May that she has long been “frustrated with writing about queer nightlife that really presents it as this utopian escape from everyday life.” “That’s a story, it’s not reality,” she argues.
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Clare Forstie Wants To Change the Way You Think About the Queer Midwest
“I am a queer person who grew up in and has lived in small communities, small towns, and small cities for my entire life.”
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Revisiting “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions,” 45 Years Later
I didn’t know this book at all until a few months ago. I borrowed it thinking it’d be hilarious to read in public spaces and have people give me questionable stares. That mentality was replaced by the desire to build bridges.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Happy Pride Y’all!
I was able to teach my son the un-whitewashed version of the Stonewall riots, giving power to the black and brown folks that put their bodies on the line so that his mom could be free to love freely.
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Grab Your Backpack (No the Other One): Here’s a Pride Survival Pack!
Here are eight books, seven poems, six people to follow, five ways to support black trans people, four places to donate, three shows, two albums, two games, and one tool to get you ready for Pride 2022!
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In Verse: Poetry Collections for Pride Month
In a field that was once dominated by the cis straight white male voice, LGBTQ poets and poets of color are finally starting to get their due.
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Editor’s Notes: On Pride 2022
As Pride increasingly becomes co-opted, soured by capitalism, and diluted from its original organizing and protest roots, it’s easy to become exhausted every June.
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Our A+ Pride Pop-Up Discord Server Is Happening Now!!!
Meet your fellow members! Do it!
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A Letter to My Ex-Best Friend This Pride
I will always love you, and I know you will always love me. Sometimes love isn’t enough.
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Five Cheap Ideas for Your Container Garden This Summer
If you’re looking for ideas for container gardening, no matter how small your space, this is for you!
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36 Queer-Owned Businesses Selling LGBT T-Shirts To Support This Pride Season
Wanna spend your Pride cash on original t-shirts from lesbian and queer-owned businesses and LGBTQ+ stores? We’ve got a great list!
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Eight LGBTQ+ Country Music Singers on Pride and Queering Country
Harlan Howard said “All you need to write a country song is three chords and the truth” — I’m pretty sure queer folks have a lot of truth to tell.
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Nudity, Kink, and Safe Spaces for Kids Can All Coexist at Pride
As a gay parent, I have a lot of grievances about Pride — not one of them is about bare body parts or leather dykes and daddies.
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The Best Straight Movies of the Past 10 Years
A dazzling portrait of a white heterosexual girl’s coming-of-age, Lady Bird gave us a straight character anyone can root for.
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10 Ways to Keep Your Disabled / Chronically Ill Friends Safer This Pride
We clown on the commodification of Pride, but what good is that if we continue to perpetuate all the ableism intrinsic in capitalism in our own spaces?
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27 Big Brands Selling LGBTQ+ Pride Apparel in 2022, Loosely Ranked By Subjective Criteria
Another year, another chance for big brands to give money to big non-profits and remind us that love is love, love is for everyone, love unites, etc.