panStruggles to separate paedophilia and homosexuality. Author seems almost regretful that being gay is okay now (despite being gay himself) because he mourns the furious vitality of the community under threat.
The final chapter doesn't see the transphobic movement coming at all, and I'd lay bets from his attitudes that he finds it frustrating to be told to use someone's pronouns etc.
I read a good bit of nonfiction this month - six titles, although half of them were children's picture books. June's spot is going to The Stonewall Reader
June Nonfiction #ReadingBracket2024
pickThis is a really great resource on the LGBTQ movement. It recounts the Stonewall Riots from multiple first hand perspectives, through interviews & articles written at the time. It also explores other events leading up to that night, which set the stage for the uprising, & the years afterwards. It spotlights the activists who led the fight for gay rights.
I recommend listening to the audiobook, as some of the interviews are the original recordings
I found the poem Henry was reciting to Alex in the V&A, and I'm obsessed with it!
"It rhymes in French." - Henry ?
#rwrb #henrygeorgeedwardjamesfoxmountchristenwindsor #poetryera #georgevilliers #17thcentury #apollo #dukeofbuckingham #queerhistory #historyhuh #theophiledeviau #aumarquisduboukinquan #hyacinthus #amyntas #jamesVI #poem #french #poet
Sort of obsessed that RWRB was my first introduction to the notorious George Villiers, and now Nicholas Galitzine (AKA Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor) is playing him in Mary and George! What an incredible series! I delved into the Jacobean era after reading RWRB for the first time, and love this series even more because of it. Thank you Casey McQuiston! #RWRB #CaseyMcquiston #queerhistory #HistoryHuh #nonfiction #LGBTQ
pickA bit more dense than I expected from a graphic history—but that‘s because it‘s a history of queer theory and theorists, rather than of the gay liberation movement like I expected. It was pretty interesting and definitely informative. Queer theory is very complicated and entangled.
The Development and Engagement director at Lambda Literary posted on Instagram that they‘re looking for shelfies! They are sick of using stock images only to crop/zoom and see books with titles relating to extraneous topics. If you have a shelf or stack of exclusively queer books, why not snap a pic and send it in- they‘ll credit your photo as well if you‘d like. Here‘s the link: https://forms.gle/vYNvpddVe684kAhH8
