{"id":79307,"date":"2021-06-01T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=79307"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T15:49:51","slug":"pride-month-recommended-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2021\/06\/01\/pride-month-recommended-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIDE Month Recommended Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAFFLE CLOSED<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congratulations to our raffle’s winners:\u00a0Michaela Carrier, Elissa Everton, Meagan Lauber, Yamini Adusumelli, James Merrington and Senegal Carty! Happy reading!<\/em><\/p>\n

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All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto<\/p>\n

By: George M. Johnson<\/p>\n

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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color,\u00a0<\/span>All Boys Aren’t Blue\u00a0<\/span><\/i>covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson’s emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Detransition, Baby: A Novel<\/p>\n

By: Torrey Peters<\/p>\n

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Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn’t hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ames isn’t happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese\u2014and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames’s boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she’s pregnant with his baby\u2014and that she’s not sure whether she wants to keep it\u2014Ames wonders if this is the chance he’s been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family\u2014and raise the baby together?<\/span><\/p>\n

This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can’t reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Felix Ever After<\/p>\n

By: Kacen Callendar<\/p>\n

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Felix Love has never been\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/em>love\u2014and, yes, he\u2019s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it\u2019s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him\u00a0to find someone. What\u2019s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he\u2019s one marginalization too many\u2014Black, queer, and transgender\u2014to ever get his own happily-ever-after.<\/p>\n

When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages\u2014after publicly posting Felix\u2019s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned\u2014Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn\u2019t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi\u2013love triangle….<\/p>\n

But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.<\/p>\n

Felix Ever After<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve.<\/p>\n

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Red, White, and Royal Blue: A Novel<\/p>\n

By: Casey McQuiston<\/p>\n

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What happens when America’s First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
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\nWhen his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius\u2015his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S.\/British relations take a turn for the worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston’s\u00a0<\/span>Red, White & Royal Blue<\/i>\u00a0proves: true love isn’t always diplomatic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Hours: A Novel<\/p>\n

By: Michael Cunningham<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0<\/span>The Hours<\/i>, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf’s last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.<\/span><\/p>\n

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham’s most remarkable achievement to date.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation<\/span><\/p>\n

By: \u00a0<\/span>Matthew Riemer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Through the lenses of protest, power, and pride,\u00a0<\/span>We Are Everywhere\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is an essential and empowering introduction to the history of the fight for queer liberation. Combining exhaustively researched narrative with meticulously curated photographs, the book traces queer activism from its roots in late-nineteenth-century Europe–long before the pivotal Stonewall Riots of 1969–to the gender warriors leading the charge today. Featuring more than 300 images from more than seventy photographers and twenty archives, this inclusive and intersectional book enables us to truly\u00a0<\/span>see<\/i>\u00a0queer history unlike anything before, with glimpses of activism in the decades preceding and following Stonewall, family life, marches, protests, celebrations, mourning, and Pride. By challenging many of the assumptions that dominate mainstream LGBTQ+ history,\u00a0<\/span>We Are Everywhere\u00a0<\/span><\/i>shows readers how they can–and must–honor the queer past in order to shape our liberated future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RAFFLE CLOSED Congratulations to our raffle’s winners:\u00a0Michaela Carrier, Elissa Everton, Meagan Lauber, Yamini Adusumelli, James Merrington and Senegal Carty! Happy reading! All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto By: George M. Johnson         Detransition, Baby: A Novel By: Torrey Peters         Felix Ever After By: Kacen Callendar       […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13642,"featured_media":79344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7167,7151,1,795],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79307"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79448,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79307\/revisions\/79448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}