After lookg through the top 50 queer BookToks, here are the most popular "'s gay and slaps" books. Pl: charts and statistics!
Contents:
- “IT’S GAY AND IT SLAPS”: TIKTOK’S FAVORE LGBTQ BOOKS
- 19 QUEER FRIENDSHIP BOOKS THAT GO BEYOND THE GAY BT FRIEND
- WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
“IT’S GAY AND IT SLAPS”: TIKTOK’S FAVORE LGBTQ BOOKS
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2022-releas, achillean, adult-fictn, bisexual, gay, lbian, lgbtq, mlm, nonfictn, queer, sapphic, transgenr, wlw, ya-fictn. 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.
19 QUEER FRIENDSHIP BOOKS THAT GO BEYOND THE GAY BT FRIEND
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.
WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
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.
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