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BE GAY, DO COMICS

This book llects some of her short ics, sketch, and webics, cludg The End of Summer, I Love This Part, A Cy Insi, and What It's Like To Be Gay In An All-Girls Middle School. ” —Kirk Reviews (Starred review)“There is a lot to love about the new queer anthology Be Gay, Do Comics. Be Gay, Do Comics wngly weav humoro rtoons wh eply personal short-form ics and historil ic strips to offer an entertag and rmative read… Such unvarnished queer tth is rehg and affirmg.

” —Book Rt“A powerfully emotnal read – om lgh-out-loud sgle page gag ics pokg fun at the ludicro ncept of genr reveal parti, to harrowg gay histori. Read Levi Hastgs and Dorian Alexanr’s bgraphil The Life of Gad Beck: Gay.

” —Gaymg Mag“Hilar, poignant, and enlighteng, offers a nuanced look at queer history—one that starts far earlier than the Stonewall rts—and timate perspectiv om rtoonists grapplg wh inty. Be Gay, Do Comics.

BE GAY, DO COMICS

More than 30 die LGBTQ rtoonists and artists share their experienc navigatg homophobia, genr inty, and the polics of sex. " —Kirk Reviews (Starred review)"There is a lot to love about the new queer anthology Be Gay, Do Comics. Be Gay, Do Comics wngly weav humoro rtoons wh eply personal short-form ics and historil ic strips to offer an entertag and rmative read...

" —Book Rt"A powerfully emotnal read – om lgh-out-loud sgle page gag ics pokg fun at the ludicro ncept of genr reveal parti, to harrowg gay histori. " —Gaymg Mag"Hilar, poignant, and enlighteng, offers a nuanced look at queer history—one that starts far earlier than the Stonewall rts—and timate perspectiv om rtoonists grapplg wh inty. I had read probably half of them or so the past, but the on that stood out on this pass clud Hazel Newlevant's "Queer Uprisgs Before Stonewall"; "Queerns has always been part of life the middle east" by an anonymo thor; "Delonizg Queerns the Philipp"by Trdad Esbar; "When You're Invisible Pop Culture" by Bian Xunise and Sage Coffey; "The Homophobic Hysteria of the Lavenr Sre" by Kazimir Lee and Dorian Alexanr; "Livejournal Ma Me Gay" by JB Brager; "It's all for the Breast" by Alexis Sudgen; "Wch Camp" by Melanie Gillman; "The Amerin Revolutn's Greatt Lear was Openly Gay" by Josh Tjillo and Levi Hastgs; and "The Wonrfully Queer World of Moom" by Mady G, who also illtrated the betiful ver.

527 reviews1, 319 followersAugt 19, 2020Be Gay, Do Comics is an anthology wh more than 30 ntributors, all discsg some aspect of queer life. Most anthologi this ve that I've read have played pretty safe: they've ually been very whe, and mostly foced on gay cis men, wh the overarchg msage beg one of acceptance.

BE GAY, DO COMICS

Be Gay, Do Comics vers a wi range of topics om a lot of different voic, cludg many artists of lor and trans artists, and clus ics about queer liberatn and ristg 's hard to speak about an anthology like this a hive way, bee they are all so different: art style, tone, topic, and inty.

5/5 BUT HEAR ME OUTBe Gay, Do Comics is a llectn of stori about queer experienc om queer thors/artists, rangg om verg history to everyday suatns. I’m love CW: discsns of body dysmorphia, homophobia, transphobia, ternalized bigotry, hate crim, nazism + active systemic opprsn/genoci, ath, grief 826 reviews8 followersSeptember 18, 2020(c/p om my review on TheStoryGraph) It's hard to rate an anthology.

It also ma me cry a few tim SO THERE IS THATTW for this book clu: homophobia, transphobia, racismic lgbt nonfictn9 reviewsJuly 19, 2022Really fun book to read. Some of the ics are shockgly out of touch: someone who claims to be a femist but se her ivf embryos as people; a historil strip abt a gay amerin revolutnary lear; an asexual guy plag about how ~overly sexual gay male culture is; the progenor of the “people shove thgs their vaga for pleasure?! ” asexual ic; multiple strips claimg certa untri only beme homophobic after lonizatn; plenty of misogyny, etc.