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    Welcome to Reading the Rainbow's GLBT Literature threeaaad! In which we shall discuss, of course, GLBT literature. Be it fiction, non-fiction, or classics, we can talk about them, recommend new books, give suggestions on what not to read, etc. (:

    So let us begin with a simple question: Have you read any GLBT (Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender) books before? Did you enjoy them? Why or why not?


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I haven't read any books but I've watch a movie on gays and transgenders. I would like to read some books smile

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I read a GLBT book called Boy Meets Boy. The author created this character who lived in a world where it was completly ok to be GLBT. The Quarter back/ Prom Queen was Transgender. The author then contrasted this town with an outside town with a friend of the main character's who is dealing with being out to his parents and having it not be ok. I really thought it was cool that he did that.

The author came to my local library and read aloud from the book.
It was a little dissapointing. He didn't read it the way I thought it should be. sweatdrop

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LadyofMisery
I haven't read any books but I've watch a movie on gays and transgenders. I would like to read some books smile


    There are quite a lot of good books that we could recommend. ^^ What sort of genre are you into? (Fantasy, Horror, Historical, Romance, etc).

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Books I reccomend:
Annie on my Mind--Kinda dated, but also a very sweet story.
Am I Blue?--A series of short stories by various authors. The title story makes me happy whenever I think about it.
Anything by Francesca Lia Block, especially the Weetzie Bat books--Many queer characters, and she always takes a very positive view on homosexuality and transgendered people.

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Emerald_Jasmine
Books I reccomend:
Annie on my Mind--Kinda dated, but also a very sweet story.
Am I Blue?--A series of short stories by various authors. The title story makes me happy whenever I think about it.
Anything by Francesca Lia Block, especially the Weetzie Bat books--Many queer characters, and she always takes a very positive view on homosexuality and transgendered people.



I looove Francesca Lia Block. mrgreen

I have also read "Am I Blue." That is a very good story.

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Emerald_Jasmine
Books I reccomend:
Annie on my Mind--Kinda dated, but also a very sweet story.
Am I Blue?--A series of short stories by various authors. The title story makes me happy whenever I think about it.
Anything by Francesca Lia Block, especially the Weetzie Bat books--Many queer characters, and she always takes a very positive view on homosexuality and transgendered people.



I looove Francesca Lia Block. mrgreen

I have also read "Am I Blue." That is a very good story.


    I haven't ever read anything by her, but I've seen a lot of them on the recommended shelves at libraries. I'll have to check her out. ^^

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*shyly* I like historical. And fantasy. And romance. I'm an easy sell.

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Indigo Poet
*shyly* I like historical. And fantasy. And romance. I'm an easy sell.


    XDDD Me too, it's what makes it easy to search out books. >D

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Emerald_Jasmine
Books I reccomend:
Annie on my Mind--Kinda dated, but also a very sweet story.


    I get recommended this book really often, but haven't read it yet. Could you give me a small summary about what it's about?

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LadyofMisery
I haven't read any books but I've watch a movie on gays and transgenders. I would like to read some books smile


    There are quite a lot of good books that we could recommend. ^^ What sort of genre are you into? (Fantasy, Horror, Historical, Romance, etc).


I'm into a lot of different genres. Fantasy, romance, that stuff.

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Cereal Murder
Emerald_Jasmine
Books I reccomend:
Annie on my Mind--Kinda dated, but also a very sweet story.


    I get recommended this book really often, but haven't read it yet. Could you give me a small summary about what it's about?


Basically it's a teen romance, but it's two girls. The whole thing is written through memories and letters.

I got this off Amazon:
"Published in 1982, Annie on My Mind remains one of the most censored and controversial teen novels, but it is, even after twenty years, remarkable for two reasons: its emphasis on the healing (even redemptive) power of love and its departure from young adult books that, as Michael Cart has observed, subscribed to "the idea that to be homosexual is to be doomed, either to a premature death or to a life of despair at the darkest margins of society." (Booklist Youth, v. 95)

Annie On My Mind tells the story of two young women, each with loving families but outsiders at their respective schools, who meet at a museum in New York, quickly becoming friends and, later, lovers. The book is told from the perspective of Liza, a student at a private high school governed by an authoritarian principal. When Liza and Annie get caught making love in the house of two lesbian teachers, not just their lives but others' are irrevocably changed.

The book is certainly dated (it reminds me of books like The Cat Ate My Gymsuit and others of the same general era) and flat in places, and some aspects are painted with rather broad strokes - without much attention to the complexities of class and ethnicity, for example. But it is a moving and honest invocation of teenaged angst, one that captures the tentativeness of new love.

One strength is that the book offers a sympathetic portrayal of the various characters. They are, in the end, human - flawed, ambiguous, cautious. There is no one villain; most of the characters are well-meaning, if painfully awkward.

Overall, even after two decades, the book still stands as a sensitive portrayal of the naturalness of young love and one young woman's emerging understanding that the private is, if not political, then politicized."

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Emerald_Jasmine
Cereal Murder
Emerald_Jasmine
Books I reccomend:
Annie on my Mind--Kinda dated, but also a very sweet story.


    I get recommended this book really often, but haven't read it yet. Could you give me a small summary about what it's about?


Basically it's a teen romance, but it's two girls. The whole thing is written through memories and letters.

I got this off Amazon:
"Published in 1982, Annie on My Mind remains one of the most censored and controversial teen novels, but it is, even after twenty years, remarkable for two reasons: its emphasis on the healing (even redemptive) power of love and its departure from young adult books that, as Michael Cart has observed, subscribed to "the idea that to be homosexual is to be doomed, either to a premature death or to a life of despair at the darkest margins of society." (Booklist Youth, v. 95)

Annie On My Mind tells the story of two young women, each with loving families but outsiders at their respective schools, who meet at a museum in New York, quickly becoming friends and, later, lovers. The book is told from the perspective of Liza, a student at a private high school governed by an authoritarian principal. When Liza and Annie get caught making love in the house of two lesbian teachers, not just their lives but others' are irrevocably changed.

The book is certainly dated (it reminds me of books like The Cat Ate My Gymsuit and others of the same general era) and flat in places, and some aspects are painted with rather broad strokes - without much attention to the complexities of class and ethnicity, for example. But it is a moving and honest invocation of teenaged angst, one that captures the tentativeness of new love.

One strength is that the book offers a sympathetic portrayal of the various characters. They are, in the end, human - flawed, ambiguous, cautious. There is no one villain; most of the characters are well-meaning, if painfully awkward.

Overall, even after two decades, the book still stands as a sensitive portrayal of the naturalness of young love and one young woman's emerging understanding that the private is, if not political, then politicized."

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    I officially need to snag that book out of our school library as quickly as I can now. O:!

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LadyofMisery
Cereal Murder
LadyofMisery
I haven't read any books but I've watch a movie on gays and transgenders. I would like to read some books smile


    There are quite a lot of good books that we could recommend. ^^ What sort of genre are you into? (Fantasy, Horror, Historical, Romance, etc).


I'm into a lot of different genres. Fantasy, romance, that stuff.


    Hm.. what should I start off with suggesting? XD I know vampire books the best, sadly. I could suggest The Blood of Kings and Blood Prophet by John Michael Curlovich; I love those. I've heard in the Fantasy genre that Swordspoint, by Ellen Kushner, is good -- though I've yet to read it myself.
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