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| Original Title: | This Book Is Gay |
| ISBN: | 1471403955 (ISBN13: 9781471403958) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Juno Dawson
Paperback | Pages: 271 pages Rating: 3.9 | 4968 Users | 794 Reviews
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| Title | : | This Book is Gay |
| Author | : | Juno Dawson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 271 pages |
| Published | : | September 4th 2014 by Hot Key Books |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer |
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Alternate cover edition for 9781492617839Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU.
There's a long-running joke that, after "coming out," a lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership card and instruction manual. THIS IS THAT INSTRUCTION MANUAL. You're welcome.
Inside you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask: from sex to politics, hooking up to stereotypes, coming out and more. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality and what it's like to grow up LGBT also includes real stories from people across the gender and sexual spectrums, not to mention hilarious illustrations.
You will be entertained. You will be informed. But most importantly, you will know that however you identify (or don't) and whomever you love, you are exceptional. You matter. And so does this book.
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Ratings: 3.9 From 4968 Users | 794 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books This Book is Gay
Actual rating: 3.5* Content: 3/5The opening of the book explains that it's tried to be as inclusive and intersectional as possible, but there is a disclaimer that it, like anything, isn't perfect and to bear that in mind while reading. That said, this book is pretty gay-cis-male heavy (which Dawson points out sometimes can't helped since all scientific research etc has been geared towards the cis male experience because patriarchy, dammit.) Dawson did bring in a queer female writer to co-write aSo, pretty much, don't read this? I started out reading it and thought, wow, this has not aged well, and then I read the verso, which said the date of publication was... four years ago. Which was pretty much when my internal voice went, 'Oh... no. This is going to get worse, isn't it?'. Spolier: it did.Did not finish. Really exclusionary of pretty much anyone but cis gay males, pretty much every quote on bisexuality is about not liking labels or actually identifying as something OTHER than bi,
Brilliant, important, timely and incredibly funny non-fiction guide to every aspect of the LGBT* experience. This should be a curriculum book!
So this is more of a beginners gay book. I consider myself more of an intermediate gay with a major in bisexuality.Joking aside, this is an okay overview of the LGBT+ community. Certain sections are very helpful for people learning about being gay--like "how to come out" "how to combat religious bigots" and "safe sex"My major criticism is for a book that claims to cover information about a rainbow of sexualities, it sure focuses a lot on cis gay men. There wasn't much about bisexuality,
3/5.I wish I could have found a book like this when I was 12 and crushing hardcore on a girl for the first time ever. I was so deep in denial, I'd pretty much dug a hole all the way to the center of the earth and it took me another 10 years before I could accept the fact that I like boys and girls, and that that is okay. The things mentioned in this book are stuff we never talked about at school or in sex ed or whatever. I think I was 14 when I realized girls could like girls too (this being
Even though I always had the internet, I think that to have had this book in 7th grade when I started to admit to myself that I was gay would've felt similar to how Alec and Geena's characters in Beetlejuice feel upon finding the "Handbook for the Recently Deceased." I blazed through it, probably because it felt like the pretty, packaged LGBTQ* education I never got in school. As James Dawson points out, there is a horrifying degree of institutional homophobia present even in the most
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