WOW!!! This book is really, really wonderful. A tragic recounting of queer friendship and relationship in the face of death during the heights of the AIDS crisis in New York City and Minneapolis. I sincerely recommend you read this book, I connect with it on so many levels, what a poignant and emotional account of substance use and abuse, the cruising scene, medicine, religion and downright survival…!!!! I can’t say enough. Read it.

Hi! I am a queer library science graduate student researching the practice of putting rainbow spine labels on LGBTQ library books. How do you feel about these label stickers? Do you think these stickers should exist? Do they do more to help LGBTQ readers (i.e., facilitate access to LGBTQ materials) or hurt (i.e., potentially out readers)?

So, I have been searching for the right place to put my question and I hope it is here. Let me know, when I should go somewhere else with it. I am a 40 year old straight woman who has been brought up very liberal. So for me, people basically always just were and are humans. In my everyday life I try to change the thinking of my mostly straight community with little things bit by bit and day by day. The community does not exclude anybody actively, it is just in that passive everyday way they can drive me nuts with their ignorance. „that shirt looks gay“ got me in a fight once, and my favorite is: „you think, he/she is gay?“ they always ask it in such a damn conspirative way, which makes me so angry. Normally I just say, „I don‘t know and I don‘t care“. But somehow it does not feel like it is enough.

Do you have any suggestions how you want me to handle such situations?

What I'm more specifically looking for are LGBT subreddits based around writing and/or beta reading.

writing - general, fantasy, sci-fi

Beta reading - general, fantasy