Calum McSwiggan (Author of Eat, Gay, Love)

Contents:

• EAT, GAY, LOVE
• EAT, GAY, LOVE
• EAT, GAY, LOVE
• BOOK REVIEW: EAT, GAY, LOVE: A MEMOIR
• EAT, GAY, LOVE
• EAT, GAY, LOVE
• EAT, GAY, LOVE: LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE

EAT, GAY, LOVE

There's nice food, there's love all forms, and there's lots of gay. Maybe some gay YA?

TW: Dg Use, Mentn of Suici, Dcriptive Dg Overdose, Discsns around Homophobia and tolerance"Thgs are ed improvg and yet there still isn't a sgle untry the world where LGBT+ people are treated as equals every aspect of life - whether that's same-sex upl beg unable to adopt Italy; gay marriage beg prohibed India; or trans people still beg nied the right to legally change their genr Thailand. As Calum travels, he juxtapos the myriad ways prejudice and homophobia are exprsed each untry.

EAT, GAY, LOVE

244 reviews4 followersJanuary 23, 2023Entertag & amg - loved readg about his travels and his scriptn of gay clubs left me wh a feelg of nostalgia for my youth!

EAT, GAY, LOVE

In this se 'Gay' substutg 'Pray' do mark one of the book's strengths, and ironilly one of s weakns as well.

Of urse, the gay ntext was the ma reason I bought this book, and while I enjoyed learng about Berl's gay unrground clubs etc., the gay partyg is lackg the pth that the spirual aspect of 'Eat, Pray, Love' did provi.

BOOK REVIEW: EAT, GAY, LOVE: A MEMOIR

All all though EGL mak for a worthwhile and enjoyable lgbt memoir793 reviews9 followersMay 9, 2020Eat, Gay, Love is a book you will eher absolutely adore for Calum McSwiggan ndour and openns his personal journey and the people he meets a long the way, or you hate and thk 's far fetched and simplistic. October 16, 2021Calum has everythg he's ever wanted, an enjoyable job, a nice home, supportive parents and a steady lovg partner, one night his partner is asslted an homophobic attack and their liv beg to fall apart. Each adventure is grippg to read and I really liked the way that the thor his experienc to explore aspects of LGBT life cludg the difficulti and ways of livg as LGBT untri where beg gay or trans is illegal.

Its not an -pth exploratn or narrative of LGBT+ people and some of the issu they face travellg or a cultural exploratn of LGBT+ issu and liv but is an dividual memoir that looks at the experienc of travel through the ey of a young gay man.

Addnally, I also felt that the typil ton and problems faced by the queer muny are almost forced to the storyle eg: g out, isolatn, gay rights, nartic abe, SA. There is a Trigger Warng bee this book do al wh heavy topics like sexual asslt, overdose, suici, and homophobia.

EAT, GAY, LOVE

4k reviews113 followersMay 28, 2020It's a good book, well wrten and full of food for 's entertag, movg, well wrten and I liked the different stori and how Calum faced issu and different 's a book full of hope and I loved the msage of thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opns are 27 books87 followersAugt 21, 2020I wasn't aware of Calum McSwiggan before but chose Eat, Gay, Love after seeg mentned on Gay's The Word's the tle hts, has elements of Eat, Pray, Love - travel, soul-searchg and a wealth of tertg people Calum me across along the way - whilst explorg what means to be LGBTQ+ a variety of plac across the enjoyable, highly readable.

Along the way, he meets LGBT+ people om all walks of life and every part of the rabow - om an Italian teenager stgglg wh a homophobic father to a kathoey navigatg life as a trans person Thailand, to a young HIV-posive man livg on the streets of London. Their dividual stori, not only of hardship and sorrow but also of profound strength and hope, show the breadth and pth of queer life and experience, sheddg light on them such as homophobia, sexual vlence, marriage equaly and genr inty.

EAT, GAY, LOVE

A travel memoir wh a difference, Eat, Gay, Love is a celebratn of the power of muny and a personal tribute to the extraordary liv of LGBT+ people everywhere the world. Eat, Gay, Love. Eat, Gay, Love: A Memoir.

Along the way, he meets LGBT+ people om all walks of life and every part of the rabow - om an Italian teenager stgglg wh a homophobic father to a kathoey navigatg life as a trans person Thailand, to a young HIV-posive man livg on the streets of London. A travel memoir wh a difference, Eat, Gay, Love is a celebratn of the power of muny and a personal tribute to the extraordary liv of LGBT+ people everywhere the world. 'Eat, Gay, Love' is wrten by Calum McSwiggan.

Calum skillfully wr about his experience travellg the world as a sgle gay man, and the unique stori of the LGBT+ people he meets along the way. It is rare to read an hont, warts and all, acunt of travellg as a sgle gay man and the experienc and issu that n and I are very different people, but like most gay men we have had very siar experienc, pecially the need to fd onelf and feel fortable our own sk, as well as our surroundgs. I would highly remend this to anyone as a great read, be they gay, straight or an is available now eher paperback, hardback, digal or d format.

EAT, GAY, LOVE: LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE

I felt this book tely reprented my readg journey so far wh this year focg on male gay protagonists, Callums story emerg you different cultur, worlds and people that you'd never get a chance to see whout openg yourself to them, the same sense ive felt that openg myself to the experienc of other gay men and followg their stori and experienc has benefted me soooooo much. The re premise of this book was to fd one's self I feel, Cullum starts wh some backround and why he choos to travel yet woven throughout the book is a spotlight on the LGBT+ difficulti that exist everywhere, speakg of hate crim, suici rat and dg e yet equal part the muny that wh beg gay.