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“IT’S GAY AND IT SLAPS”: TIKTOK’S FAVORE LGBTQ BOOKS
After lookg through the top 50 queer BookToks, here are the most popular "'s gay and slaps" books. Pl: charts and statistics! * gay books booktok *
There’s a sound on TikTok (d that is ed and repurposed by multiple creators) of the amazg queer BookTok creator Laynie Rose that says, “Lerally the only book review you actually need, the only requirements I have for a book is: ’s gay and slaps. ” Followg this are a bunch of LGBTQ books prented wh some variatn of the rea “It’s gay and slaps. To round out to an even 50, I also took the top 5 vios that e the “It’s gay and slaps” sound.
(Content warngs for vlent homophobia and transphobia). Send, this tle is so ubiquo on BookTok that 3 of the mentns are rogatory; the weren’t homophobic TikToks, they jt were satirizg the ia of “LGBT” BookTok vios beg jt this tle and Song of Achill — though, as we’ll see, M/M books are not actually as overreprented on BookTok as that would suggt. A note on tegori: I did not break down specific reprentatn — such as bisexual, pansexual, lbian, gay, etc.
I also wanted to mentn that some of the diversy of this longer list, both terms of genre and the percentage by thors of lor, is acunted for by a uple of TikToks the “It’s gay and slaps” sound, cludg one jt voted to M/M manga. 2022-releas, achillean, adult-fictn, bisexual, gay, lbian, lgbtq, mlm, nonfictn, queer, sapphic, transgenr, wlw, ya-fictn. (shelved 1 time as gay-booktok).
GAY BOOKTOK BOOKS
Pri Month is officially here and that n only mean one thg: time to load up your readg list wh stellar queer stori.Of urse, you should be mixg gay books to your to-be-read pile no matter what time of year, but this month, as you celebrate Pri, queer books n be the perfect way to explore the breadth and diversy of the LGBTQ muny.Fortunately for anybody lookg for a great gay read, the book world is filled wh a bevy of queer stori of all genr.Whether you're lookg for a medative poetry llectn about queer inty and mental health, a ep dive to the New York Cy's ballroom culture the '80s and '90s, a ic about a group suts who fd themselv plagued by supernatural creatur at mp, or a g-of-age story about a shaphifter who is navigatg life and datg, there is a queer book out there for you.Here are 13 very gay and very good books you should read this Pri Month.1.