“Eat, Gay, Love” by Calum McSwiggan REVIEW – LForQueers

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Eat, Gay, Love by Calum McSwiggan, 2021, Hodr & Stoughton, Hodr, Hodr Paperbacks edn, English

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EAT, GAY, LOVE

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

KAI SPELLMEIER'S REVIEWS > EAT, GAY, LOVE

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

DAVID MCKENZIE'S REVIEWS > EAT, GAY, LOVE

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.

“EAT, GAY, LOVE” BY CALUM MCSWIGGAN REVIEW

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.

EAT, GAY, LOVE

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.

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Kai Spellmeier’s review of Eat, Gay, Love .

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