5 Books to Read for Pride

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Komentáře • 52

  • @frozensummer713
    @frozensummer713 Před měsícem +14

    perfect timing! i absolutely love books about queer history, experiences, thoughts, art, and more. looking forward to more non-fiction recommendations

  • @badfaith4u
    @badfaith4u Před měsícem +9

    Thank you for recommending non fiction books for pride. 🏳️‍🌈

  • @M-bb8zm
    @M-bb8zm Před měsícem +10

    Highly recommend The Men with the Pink Triangle, about gay men targets during the Holocaust. Not an easy read but it's important to remember all the victims which did include the LGBTQ+ community.

  • @Tristan-L-Space-Books
    @Tristan-L-Space-Books Před měsícem +4

    I'll definitely be checking these out. Especially Bad Gays because everyone loves a good villain.
    I'd also recommend It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful by Jack Lowery. It's about how AIDS activists used art to fight the AIDS crisis. It acknowledges the centering of white privileged men in the historical narrative of this particular issue and makes a significant effort to include those not normally included. It's a fascinating book that I've been finding very accessible and engaging.

  • @danielaweberdani
    @danielaweberdani Před měsícem +6

    of course I'll love to listen
    to an audiobook narrated by
    you and maybe I'll even find a
    representation for myself (my
    son is sure I'm a demisexual,
    he's probably right. young
    people usually are,
    aren't they?)
    anyway, I love your atitude
    towards acceptance and the
    brave way you fight for respect:
    happy pride! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

    • @WillowTalksBooks
      @WillowTalksBooks  Před měsícem +4

      I love the way that you trust the wisdom of young people. Humans only get better 💜

  • @Gen-yh1jz
    @Gen-yh1jz Před měsícem +3

    Thank you for all the recommendations 🌈

  • @MonikaBury
    @MonikaBury Před měsícem +2

    Thank you for all the recommendations! and wows for this outfit, you look lovely! :)

  • @Adeodatus100
    @Adeodatus100 Před měsícem +4

    Thank you! I'll definitely check out Outrageous. One of my favourite queer non-fiction books is Derek Jarman's "At Your Own Risk". It's a glorious polemic, celebrating his fury at the world of heteronormativity and his very personal experience of the 1980s HIV crisis. Another recent favourite is Jeremy Atherton Lin's "Gay Bar: Why We Went Out" which looks at the culture of (specifically male) gay bars in Britain and America. Partly autobiographical, it also acknowledges a culture that appears to be uncertain of its own future. The only thing wrong with Lin's book is that I keep lending copies to friends and not getting them back!

  • @niccc9476
    @niccc9476 Před měsícem +3

    Outrageous is brilliant, especially in a time of censorship of marginalised groups!
    another coffeetable book i can recommend is We Are Everywhere - it details the history of Stonewall (+ gorgeous photography)

  • @hfollman98
    @hfollman98 Před měsícem +2

    WAIT I never clocked that audio as you!!! omg ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

  • @user-yq7fm8kn7t
    @user-yq7fm8kn7t Před měsícem +1

    Great reviews! Thank you. 🎉

  • @hfollman98
    @hfollman98 Před měsícem +1

    "If You'll Have Me" is a cute (standalone?) sapphic graphic novel, similar to Heartstopper--I think it was blurbed by Alice Oseman! :)

  • @Lourdes-nc3sp
    @Lourdes-nc3sp Před měsícem +1

    Happy Pride and happy reading!!! 🏳‍🌈❤

  • @messyvignette4764
    @messyvignette4764 Před měsícem +2

    Holding the Voyager mug at just the right angle for your tea to fill in the rest of Robert Picardo’s head.
    Subscribing for that alone & ordering Outrageous asap.
    🖖🏳️‍⚧️

  • @LouiseReader
    @LouiseReader Před měsícem +1

    I'm reading non fiction too. I've just started Growing Up Queer in Australia, part of a series of Growing Up (Insert Descriptor) in Australia.

  • @JessicaGrey1080
    @JessicaGrey1080 Před měsícem +1

    Great video!

  • @vincent_2232
    @vincent_2232 Před měsícem +2

    Us spooky queers get to have fun at pride and have fun this month too!!! I want Willows favorite spooky LGBT books!!!!

    • @WillowTalksBooks
      @WillowTalksBooks  Před měsícem +2

      Your wish is my command! czcams.com/video/gL8n9BByx6M/video.htmlsi=gkQElpsZqHGzKsGT

  • @jstamps9578
    @jstamps9578 Před měsícem +1

    The LGBTQ + History Book is very special read by you Willow, as you have great upbeat energy.
    I really want to read all of the other books you talk about here. I think the "comic" book Out intrigues me first.

  • @rachel1021
    @rachel1021 Před měsícem +2

    Definiyely gonna check out the graphic novel. Most of the queer books I've read this month are horror fiction, but I read and loved Kai Cheng Thom's poetry collection A Place Called No Homeland. =)

  • @AliceStivanello
    @AliceStivanello Před měsícem +1

    thank you for the recommendations Willow!!!!! happy pride month!!!!!

  • @jtaylor1981
    @jtaylor1981 Před měsícem +2

    I finished the LGBTQ+ History audiobook last week. Phenomenal! It was a joy learning important queer history from a trusted voice. Thank you Willow. ❤

  • @tyghe_bright
    @tyghe_bright Před měsícem +1

    I read the LGBTQ+ History book and was impressed by its scope.
    Someone elsewhere asked for non-fiction Pride recommendations, and this is what I offered (minus books you've talked about here). They're a mix of theory/essays and memoirs/biographies. Some are recent, some several decades old.
    10 Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell
    The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
    Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
    The T in LGBT, Jamie Raines
    The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin
    It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
    Sister Outsider OR Zami, Audre Lorde
    Who's Afraid of Gender, Judith Butler
    Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, by Gloria Anzaldúa
    This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
    Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
    We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
    Red Azalea by Anchee Min
    Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, Curtis Chin
    Also, nonfiction graphic novels
    Washington's Gay General
    I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together

  • @EvieM1
    @EvieM1 Před měsícem +2

    Thanks. Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

  • @UncleBuck3t
    @UncleBuck3t Před měsícem +1

    Lunar Boy had me weepy. Definitely recommend that graphic novel!

  • @jenniferlovesbooks
    @jenniferlovesbooks Před měsícem +1

    Outrageous is a must-read, especially now.

  • @LivingDeadEnby
    @LivingDeadEnby Před měsícem +1

    Great, thank you for the recommendations! Now I will definitely *listen* to the LGBTQ+ History book 😁

  • @isaaczurich9272
    @isaaczurich9272 Před měsícem +1

    As always, great video! I've been meaning to read Bad Gays for a while now.
    A title that I would add to the list is Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington.

  • @esliet
    @esliet Před měsícem +1

    LGBTQ History is on my TBR for sure but I will have to get Outrageous , sounds amazing. Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

  • @waadalsaidi5440
    @waadalsaidi5440 Před měsícem +2

    5:11 Willow: could’ve done with more women
    Me: someone write that book 😮

  • @erinsbooks
    @erinsbooks Před měsícem +2

    I've been listening to the audiobook of LGBTQ History and it's great so far.

  • @aldakendall4921
    @aldakendall4921 Před měsícem

    New books to go buy

  • @BlissfulAriana
    @BlissfulAriana Před 28 dny

    I saw your history book recommendation video and added a couple on my to-buy list. I wanna know more about LGBT history seeing as I'm trans myself. I never knew about the section 28 stuff. That's so insane, I really need to read that book so I can learn about it and also so I can smack people with it who dare try to section 28 trans people in today's age.

  • @sergiotorres3202
    @sergiotorres3202 Před měsícem

    I go for the sad and sentimental. I’m reading “The Words That Remain” by Stenio Gardel and is wrecking me. 😢

  • @thelibrarianofalexandria6200

    Pride by Tim Tate is a great non fiction about gay people in the 80s. Told through interviews

  • @LaughingStockfarm1
    @LaughingStockfarm1 Před měsícem +1

    My biggest frustration is that you prefer dark horror…you do such great reviews! But I don’t care for dark horror, or really much horror at all. *sigh* My life is sad 😜

  • @nanimaonovi2528
    @nanimaonovi2528 Před měsícem +2

    I just found out Sally Ride was gay. So much of women's history was obscured we had a woman in space but still in the closet...

  • @badger-1984
    @badger-1984 Před měsícem +1

    I'm convinced history is full of bad lesbians but the men never wrote about them so we'll never know all the exploits they got up to. It's a shame. Outrageous sounds really interesting so I'll have to see if I can track down a copy

  • @Amoscrts
    @Amoscrts Před měsícem +1

    Yes! Acceptance would be lovely, but human rights are nonnegotiable!

  • @gennaroleggemanga2853
    @gennaroleggemanga2853 Před měsícem

    Not me thinking “she who should not be nominated” when you said “trans horror” at the beginning 😱😱😱 she’s the horror we don’t like! 😅