🌈 Share your favourite book with LGBTQ+ representation

The heartstopper graphic novels by Alice Oseman have to definitely be one of my favourites! Partly because they are easy and quick to read to suit busy schedules but also because many different identities are represented. I'd definitely recommend them if you're wanting something light and easy to read 📚

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That seems like a very beautiful recommendation. I'll check it out so soon 🥰

@tommy the hearstopper series is amazing I love it so much. But in my opinion solitaire is one of the best books I’ve ever read!!!!!❤️

@forcefulShip4663. The heartstopper series was really good 👍.

@tommy Thanks for sharing. Does it have any adrogene or aporagender representation?

*androgene 

*androgyne *internal screaming intensifies*

@tommy The Sun and The Star by Rick Riordan. Nico Di Angelo is gay and Will Solace is bi and Nico has to go on a quest and Will decides to come along to keep Nico safe and make sure he’s okay. This book shows the pairs romance so well it’s definitely my favorite book I’ve read.❤️📕📖 

I have a TON of books to fit this category in my personal library and a couple arriving in the mail today. But I believe the title I will choose for today is "Dancer from the Dance" by Andrew Holleran. Considered a classic it explores the life of a gay man who escaped his conventional world which was just expected of him (lawyer, etc.), and flings himself into the world of New York City where after many unfortunate occurrences he overall is very simply looking for love. He envies the homes with the white picket fences and having a family. There are other novels by this author that are great as well. 

Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort of) by Kathleen Gros is my fav! I got it at barnes&noble when I was like 9 or something :3

@r0sybumpsnbruises Little Women is perhaps one of my favorite books of all time. I love all the vast ways the characters can be interpreted, and how each readier connects with them differently. I know the most popular queer reading is Jo as lesbian, but her boyishness has always resonated with me, too, and I'm a trans man.

I distinctly remember being 13-14 years old and reading her say, "I can't get over my disappointment at not being a boy". I felt so seen. She insists on being called the shorter, masculine form of her name, dreams of running off with her best friend to Europe and posing as a man, and adopts unladylike mannerisms specifically because they distance her from femininity. Which was all just like me, at the time. 

Obviously, she's intended to be a woman, and I'd never want to take away from the feminist context in which the book was written. But growing up, she was the first character who I could look at and recognize a piece of myself. It was very special for me.

There is a lot of gender commentary and envy in Alcott's fiction, and not just from Jo. Laurie is written as fairly delicate, feminine, and just fascinated with the March girls. It's not an accident that his nickname is a girl's name, and Jo's a boy's. 

You may already know this, but Alcott preferred to use a masculine nickname (Lou), on more than one occasion noted having a feeling of having “a man’s soul,” and used masculine language in self reference (i.e. describing the role taken on after adopting children as fatherhood). While we can’t know exactly how Alcott would identify in today’s language, it’s not at all outlandish to think that a transmasculine reading of Jo from Little Women may have been intentional given the author’s own experiences.

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100% definitely I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson. It's truly a beautiful story about discovering one's self through art and how art is ultimately just the path to love regardless of sexuality 🩷

@tommy casey mcquiston is a great lgbtq author. they have three books out right now, with a fourth on the way, and i've enjoyed every one immensely!! same goes for alice oseman's works <3

Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman. A thrilling love story that will leave you wanting more. So, its great there's a sequel with the ending we all want who have read the novel. 

@Tommy The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

It's a beautifully written, meticulously researched love letter to American superhero comics and Jewish culture, and how inexorably linked the two really are. I cannot praise it enough.

Michael Chabon, the author, is one of the best contemporary American novelists, and he frequently writes thoughtful, nuanced queer rep. He manages to weave in queerness as an integral part of his stories without ever making it feel like the "main point" of the gay character is just to be gay. It's very accurate to what queerness is like in real life. It isn't everything you are, but it affects every aspect of your life.

Alec by William di Cinzio is an absolutely amazing book. It is a sequel to the gay classic Maurice by E.M. Forster. This novel moved me more than most novels ever have. 

@tommy My favorite would be the Eldest Curses Series by Cassandra Clare, the MCs: Magnus is bi, and Alec is gay. The series is part of the larger shadowhunter world and this series focuses on parts of Magnus and Alec's relationship throughout the years. The first book (The Red Scrolls of Magic) is about Magnus and Alec's (I'ma call them Malec bc its easier to type) trip to Europe during the very beginning of their relationship, and in the spirit of fantasy books, they get wrapped up in cults, demons and that sort of stuff. No spoilers for the second :) For anyone wanting to read it, the series' books take place in between different series (timeline-wise) so be ready for some medium spoilers for other Shadowhuter series. 

"I Want to Be a Wall" by Honami Shirono

The story about a young asexual woman who marries a young homosexual man so that their families will stop pestering them about marriage.

Cinderella is dead by Kalynn Bayron. 📙❤️

Also sweet and bitter magic by Adrienne Tooley. Such a masterpiece.

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Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx Kindle Edition. This book is about friendships and social dynamics in India from a gendered and queer POV. It has LGBTQIA+ stories that I really enjoyed.

Carry on by Rainbow Rowell. Absolutely amazing book. Main character is queer.

Red, White, and Royal Blue! It's so good and shows the relationship so well! I love the characters and the movie is amazing, and we're even getting a 2nd movie!