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Contents:

•  GAY CLUB!
• GAY CLUB!: BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS OF GAY CLUB! BY SIMON JAM GREEN
• BATH CHILDREN'S LERATURE FTIVAL - GAY CLUB!
• GAY CLUB! AT KIRKDALE L FT
• GAY CLUB!
• GAY CLUB!
• BOOK REVIEW: “GAY CLUB!” BY SIMON JAM GREEN

 GAY CLUB!

There was no such thg as a “gay club” when I was at school. Check out the Gay Club!

GAY CLUB!: BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS OF GAY CLUB! BY SIMON JAM GREEN

“Sharp, wty, and strikgly thoughtful, Gay Club! Neatly, also enpsulat the re msage of Gay Club!, his latt novel for young adults, which follows chs geek Barney on his missn to shake up his own school’s LGBT+ society.

” He ntrasts the matury wh which today’s teenagers discs genr and sexualy wh his own g-of-age a ral town Llnshire “where ‘gay’ wasn’t even ed as a slur – I grew up total ignorance of LGBT+ people, partly bee of sectn 28 [the legislatn enacted 1988 to “prohib the promotn of homosexualy” by lol thori; was abolished only 2003]. You n watch certa media and get the imprsn that they always end up ad at the end of the story, there’s homophobic attacks and ’s all misery. ’ mentaly [but ’s really] a nvenient exce for homophobia.

”There is “absolutely” a lk between growg homophobia and the ragg culture war around transgenr rights, he says. "Gay Club! "Funny, heartfelt, and angry all the right ways, Gay Club!

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Is a love letter to the mss of our big gay fay, and a manifto for creatg the change that the youngt members of that fay need so badly today. " —LC Rosen, thor of Camp and Jack of Hearts (and other parts)This rmatn about Gay Club! The thors will also be answerg qutns om the dience and signg pi of their Jam Green's Gay Club!

Charts the journey om small-town school LGBT society to natnal gay glory, wh plenty of drama, bchg, backstabbg, and social media outrage along the way. Jo GAY CLUB wh Kirkdale Bookshop & thor Simon Jam Green at The Canvas, 22-24 Synham Rd! Simon will be talkg about his latt book GAY CLUB and signg pi!

BOOK HEREGAY CLUB is a landmark edic novel about a group of queer teens at their worst – and ultimately their bt – om one of the UK’s leadg wrers of LGBTQ+ teen fictn. Gay Club!

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Green’s latt book, Gay Club!

) is a self-nfsed geeky gay sixteen-year-old strivg to n for print of his school’s LGBTQ+ society (do that many schools really have those nowadays? Simon Jam Green standg proudly wh pi of Gay Club! Simon’s other works, Noah Can’t Even, s sequel Noah Could Never and You’re the One That I Want are all brilliant, grippg and humoro reads, that like Gay Club!

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Although Simon’s sexually experienced and yet nfintly gay lead characters are his forte, mak me wonr whether other works of his feature some diversy?

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Perhaps that’s the cynic me… Bee even though the romance element is not a big driver Gay Club!, do of urse still feature on the si as the group’s up and down love liv play parts both their polil gas and setbacks.

That observatn of Simon Jam Green’s story stctur (and his e of Amerinised spellgs such as g “z” stead of “s”) asi, Gay Club! Homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullyg, toxic masculy, the fetishisatn of lbian and bisexual women, the erasure of inti, tersectnaly, the multi trans experience, LGBTQ+ history, sex ed and other teachgs, allyship and of urse a mon one among teenagers – the state of qutng one’s sexualy and genr inty – are all issu that are vered throughout Gay Club!, to often heartbreakg and harrowg extents.

BOOK REVIEW: “GAY CLUB!” BY SIMON JAM GREEN

Unlike Heartstopper, that while excellent on many levels, cid not to pict the btal realy many LGBTQ+ teenagers face even today on a big sle favour of a more posive portrayal, Gay Club! Through all the twists and turns, twistg kniv and the sometim upsettg scen of anti-LGBTQ cints, Gay Club!