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Hey everybody!
Welcome back to Tanner's Books and Beyond, today we're gonna be doing ym final video
for Pride Month and it is the This Book Tag is a Book Tag Full of Pride Book Tag!..
that can't be right.
This Book Tag is Full of Pride! There it is!
Here in Regina we actually had our pride parade about a week ago, it was awesome, I mean it
was raining, but it was still pretty awesome.
it did manage to clear up for the second half of it.
Everything else from that day was great too, I got to dance with Pikachu.
Ah, that was fun, he was getting real turnt.
Also, as you can see, I'm wearing a special shirt because my mom actually paints her and
myself and my dad, she paints us all new shirts every year for the pride parade.
This one I specifically designed myself with her help, and so I'm gonna try and get the
whole thing in frame - it says "we are all awesome" and it's got hearts with all the
flags, so we've got bisexual, asexual, gay, intersex, agender?
I believe?
No this is nonbinary, this is agender, and this is pansexual...and this is trans!
I wanted to include as many people as I could, and I'm actually thinking next year I might
do something similar and try and get even more on there because I'm sure there are groups that I've missed.
Anywho, the purpose of this tag is to basically just do book recommendations of as many queer
books as you can find off your bookshelf and I...have a significant amount!
Unfortunately I haven't gotten through all of them, some of these are things I haven't
read yet but I bought them on the word of other people so I'm still gonna sorta recommend them.
I'll specify what I have and haven't read.
Some of these I'll just be breezing through because I've already talked about them in
my previous Rainbow Flag Book Tag videos, which I'll link below as well so you can see
my thoughts on those.
I tried to categorize into groups and I was having difficulty because I do have a lot
of overlap and intersectionality between different sexuality and gender stuff, but I was able
to narrow them down to four piles.
We've got guys with guys, girls with girls, gender stuff, and what I just call "a bunch"
because...there's a bunch in them.
And of course some of them don't fit that neatly into the categories so I will expand
on what kind of representation is specifically in the book when I get to it.
So with that said, let's begin!
So first I've got the guys with guys pile, first book I have on top here is...oh god
I'm gonna drop all these.
First book I've got on here is Whatever, Or how Junior Year got Totally F*cked.
It's basicaly a bisexual stoner comedy.
It's in the guys with guys pile because the main love interest for the guy is another
guy, but they do make it pretty clear that he is bisexual.
I do kind of wish that they delved into that a bit more in this, but all in all it's a
very fun book so I recommend it purely on the fun factor.
Then we've got luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling.
I haven't read this, I actually just picked this up two days ago, but it looks fun, it's
one of those medieval fantasy-typse fares, it was recommended to me by RC from NekutheBOOKlocke.
If I remember it's got a bisexual guy in here, so he and another guy get together at some
point over the course of the book.
It looks fun, so I've got it on here.
Next I've got Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire
Saenz, I really liked this book, I talked about it in my Rainbow Flag Book Tag.
Next we've got Hero by Perry Moore.
This is about a kid who his two biggest secrets that he keeps from his dad is that he's gay
and he has super powers, and his dad isn't really keen on either of these things because
he used to be a superhero, and then he got blacklisted from the superhero team when he
was blamed for an attack on the city that he wasn't actually responsible for.
So it's the trials and tribulations of this kid going through a coming of age story and
he has to figure out how to deal with his sexuality and how to deal with being a superhero.
It's really good, it's the first queer book I ever read.
Before reading this I didn't even think about the fact that I hadn't read any other queer
books or really that many diverse books in general, and then I read this and I really
started to think about how this was the first time I'd really seen myself in a book, and
so it was kind of an experience reading this.
Next we've got Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.
It's really good, explores a lot of stuff about coming out of the closet and being in
the closet, I talked about it more on my Rainbow Flag Book Tag so you should go check it out there.
Um, Young Avengers, the first run of Young Avengers from 2006 I think.
This one I've got in here because two of the characters, Wiccan and Hulkling, are in a relationship.
They don't really talk about the relationship they're in until a few issues on in the line,
but once they get it out in the open it becomes one of the major emotional cores of the whole series.
In fact, it wasn't supposed to be revealed until way later in the series apparently but
the readers caught on to the love between the two dudes, so quickly the writer's like
"well! Might as well stop pretending, let's get into it, let's just go full throttle towards the gay!"
Alright, next on this pile is More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera.
This is one I haven't read yet but it was heavily recommended by...basically everyone
I've watched on YouTube.
Far as I can tell its basically Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but with gay guys, so
that should be interesting.
Then there's We Are the Ants, which is the trauma conga line that I also talked about
in my Rainbow Flag Book tTag.
It's got really good gay representation and I guess...pansexual representation as well?
I mean they don't drop the word that's what I've come to understand pansexuality as?
And the last two books in the guys with guys pile are two that I got pretty recently.
I've got Fan Art by Sarah Tregay, which was heavily recommended by one of my offline friends,
she said "Tanner Oh My God you have to effing read this so we can talk about it forever
and ever" I'm like "okay calm down Yvette!"
This one is about a guy who starting to fall for his best friend but he doesn't even
know if his best friend is gay or not.
There's also a Greek Chorus of girls in the background who are shipping them really hard.
Sounds like it'll be interesting.
Then I have Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez.
This is a book that I just recently found out about but it looked pretty good.
It's from the early 2000s.
It was recommended by Caz from Catsandcamera.
Also apparently one of the characters is Matt Bomer?
Like...that was a surprise when I actually saw the cover!
Alright, that was the guys with guys pile, now we're gonna get into the girls with girls.
Oh god, so many of these are hardcovers.
*groaning* Oh, heavy!
Oh I don't have to work out today because I'm lifting so many books!
I'll start off with Gena/Finn.
The girl/girl relationship is really ambiguous as to whether it's romantic or not, like it's
hard to describe, it's one of those you really have to read.
I will say I did a review on this and said it's more about mental health than it is about
any kind of queerness, but you know the queer rep in it is still pretty good and pretty interesting.
There's a lot of layers to it, but it was really good, I really enjoyed it, I would recommend it.
Then I've got Run by Kody Keplinger, which is one of my favourite books of all time,
I talked about it in way more detail in the Rainbow Flag Book Tag.
Next up we've got Labyrinth Lost, which is about a girl who's a witch, but she doesn't
wanna be a witch, but when she tries to get rid of her powers she accidentally banishes
her entire extended family to Hell!
So that's an issue.
She ends up having to team up with the neighbourhood bad boy and her best friend from school in
order to try and save them.
It's not a huge spoiler but in the end the main girl Alex realizes that she's bi and
she gets together with her best friend Rishi.
They never really say if Rishi is a lesbian or bi, but in my mind's eye I'm saying she's
a lesbian because I can't see her ending up with any kind of guy at any point.
Then we have If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizen, whish is another book I talked about
in my Rainbow Flag Book Tag.
This was really good, and I totally recommend this as well.
I think my mom's going to be borrowing this soon because she really wants to read it.
Then we've got - oh my god this is huge - Runaways!
Um, by...uh by several people.
I only have the first volume here, but there are many other - so many more issues coming in after this.
It's a comic by Marvel comics, similar to Young Avengers in tone but different in storyline.
It's about a group of kids who find out that their parents are all supervillains and so,
well, they run away.
At some point - I probably shouldn't be holding this one, I should grab the second volume actually.
Ugh...huh. Here we go.
In the second volume after they've dealt with the first storyline it comes out that one
of the girls on the team, Karolina, she is a lesbian, and eventually she gets involved
with another...person named Xavin, and I say it like that because this is something that
could go in the gender pile.
Xavin is a Skrull, they're shapeshifting lizard aliens.
There's a whole thing where they're both aliens and Karolina was betrothed to Xavin before
either of them were even born in the hopes that their marriage could save their warring planets.
Xavin, when they ind out that Karolina only likes girls they're like "oh that's fine,
we're Skrulls, we can change gender as easy as hair colour!" *swish* "I'm a chick now!"
As the relationship develops Karolina, she loves Xavin, but there's a lot of talk about
gender and how humans see it versus how aliens see it and how Xavin is starting to internalize
some of the human culture elements of gender and how they're trying not necessarily to
do that, and it gets really interesting but it's something that's spread throughout the
whole run, so you're kinda gonna have to read the entire series to get the full effect,
but you totally should because a lot of the classic Runaways?
F*cking awesome.
Next we have Fun Home, which is another book I talked about in my Rainbow Flag Book Tag.
Next we have Huntress, which I keep on talking about because I keep on saying how I have
to reread it, and that is actually coming up soon! *snap* Stay tuned!
Then we've got Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley.
This one is about two girls that fall in love, and there's two problems.
First off it's in the fifties, and second off one's black and one's white, so it's just...all
the issues you could possibly have in a relationship stuffed into one thing.
Oh boy.
And the last book in the women with women pile is another one I haven't read yet, it's
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera.
This one is about a girl, Juliet, she's just moved to a new town and just came out to her
family and she's trying to figure out her life, and as she does so she also starts interning
for one of her favourite feminist authors, and she's hoping that in doing that she'll
be able to discover herself and figure herself out completely, and as YA goes we know that's
not entirely gonna happen!
So this is another one I'm also excited to read once I get to it.
Okay, so lets move on to the gender pile!
Now unfortunately this pile is not as big as my other piles just because, like, stuff
about people being transgender or nonbinary or genderfluid or agender, it's something
that's not as big a thing in the YA world or the literary world in general.
Recent stuff that I've read about books does show we are trending towards including that
stuff more and more, but it's still gonna be a while before the caliber and the quantity
can match all the other stuff we have right now for cis people.
Anyways the first book I have in this stack is Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.
This book is about a girl who her parents die, and so she goes to live with her best
friend and his mom.
His mom is a trans woman.
The three of them just kinda heal and bond over their love of cooking and being in the kitchen.
I haven't read it yet but it has gotten rave reviews from basically everyone I've seen
talking about it, so obviously it's gotta be doing something right.
Then we have Symptoms of Being Human, which is another one I haven't read but it is on
my queue shelf, it's gonna be read soon, within the next few months.
This one is about a person who is genderfluid, and on their therapists advice they start
a blog about their fluidity, like "I'm not a guy, I'm not a girl, I'm just trying to
be myself," and the trials and tribulations of being a genderfluid teen in today's world.
Then we've got Dreadnought by April Daniels, which I just picked up the other day.
It's about a transgirl who hasn't come out yet, she hasn't started transitioning, but
all of a sudden the greatest superhero falls in front of her and dies and passes all of
his powers on to her, and part of those powers involve turning her physically into a girl.
So it's something of a win/win/lose situation where it's like "yay I'm superpowerful, yay
I'm finally the kind of person I want to be, but uh-oh now everyone knows my darkest, scariest secret."
This has been getting a lot of attention and a lot of great reviews since it even appeared
on anyone's radar, so obviously this one is also gonna be really good.
Then finally for the gender pile we have If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo.
This is the only one in that pile that I actually have read, and I adored it.
It was so good I was saying it should be taught in schools.
I talk about it way more in my Rainbow Flag Book Tag, so you can head over there to find
out what it's about.
Alright, so now the final pile, which is the "a bunch" pile, so that's just the stuff that
has a whole bunch of representation and intersectionality and things I didn't want to categorize into
the other thing.
Oh my god, heavy pile.
So first in this stack is Young Avengers, and you're probably thinking "Tanner, you've
already talked about Young Avengers!" Listen.
This is the second full run, like there was the first run that was twelve issues, then
a few mini series, and then this was the second ongoing series.
Written by Kieren Gillen and Jamie McKelvie.
This just takes the beginning gayness of the first issues and just completely expands on it.
So in addition to Wiccan and Hulkling we have Prodigy, who's a former X-Man who's bisexual;
we have Miss America Chavez who's a lesbian; we have Kid Loki who never cuts any corners
on the fact that he is basically genderfluid and sexually fluid in every manner and basically
all Asgardians are.
And the whole run is really good, it's got a lot of stuff on being a teenager and dealing
with your parents and relationship stuff, it's also got an extradimensional parasite
that once ate the narrator, and the whole thing is very stylistic and it's kind of what
made me want togo back and read all the other Young Avengers stuff too.
Then there's Meg & Linus by Hanna Nowinski and this I've got in the "bunch of stuff" pile
because the main characters, Meg is a lesbian and Linus is a gay guy.
They're bonding over the fact that they both love Star Trek, and they both love coffee,
and they're both the only two queer people in town as far as they know.
So yeah, the drama and hilarity can ensue from that situation.
Then we've got The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker.
Pat Barker writes a lot of books on PTSD following WWI and WWII.
This one is just after WWI and it deals with paranoia about sexuality in Britain, so I
put it in the bunch of stuff pile because I don't know if it specifically focuses on
any one group or any one couple, I feel like it's more broad in its scope, so it's probably
gonna be hard to read once I get to it but it's also a really interesting topic that
I've love to delve into.
Let's see, Night Vale we talked about in the Rainbow Flag Book Tag where it doesn't have
a lot of overt queer representation but a lot of the background characters are queer
and it's a major element in the book that queerness is not a big issue in the town of
Night Vale; no one cares what you like or who you like or what you identify as, so it's
all - it's all good!
Then I have Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz, and the reason this is in the other
stuff pile is because the main character Etta, she's bisexual but her relationships with
guys and with girls are both given equal value.
Like, one of them isn't declared to be better for her over the other, and so that's kind
of a rarity in a lot of bisexual literature, but obviously Hannah Moskowitz is gonna be
able to do that fine because she is bisexual, she knows the deal.
Next up is Every Heart a Doorway and unless this is your very first video on BookTube
you probably already know the entire plot of this because everyone has been talking about it.
But just in case you haven't, I talked about it more in my Rainbow Flag Tag.
It's fantasy, it has an asexual main character and a trans main character, I think everyone
under the sun has recommended it and I do too!
Pile of Bones is another book that I recommended in the Rainbow Flag Book Tag.
It's got really good representation.
They don't really label a lot of stuff.
One main character is gay and another one is bi or pan; one of the girls is either a
lesbian that dated guys in the past or a fully-fledged bisexual, they never make it clear which;
then there's another girl who is obviously interested in women but she has a kid so clearly
she was with a guy in the past and they never say if she's a lesbian or bisexual or what.
But the point is!
The entire main cast is queer and that's just beautiful.
Finally we've got The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie.
This is possibly my favourite comic book series of all time...and this is possibly my favourite
collected edition of any comic series because it's so shiny!
IT'S SO PREEEETTYYYY!
And I'm not gonna hold it for the whole video because it's also really heavy.
Anyways the plot of Wicked + Divine is that every 90 years the gods are reincarnated as
young adults, and then they basically just live as rockstars and they're worshipped as
celebrities and all that stuff, and after two years they go out in a blaze of glory,
which usually means they're just dead...and on fire...and missing their heads.
And it's also really great for representation because pretty much the entire cast is gay,
I mean - see now I do need to pick it up so I can go through everybody and not leave anyone out.
We've got Amaterasu, who experiments with girls.
We've got Lucy who is gender...weird because it's Lucifer but invarnated in a female body,
and she plays it fast and loose with the androgyny and she's also attracted to girls, so we're
not sure quite exactly what extent anything is there.
Got Sakhmet who has plenty of orgies so gender is whatever, Baphomet and Morrigan are like
the only mainstay couple and honestly I think they just have single target sexuality towards each other.
Minerva is twelve years old and not getting with anybody, Woden is an asshole,
Dionysus - I don't think Dionysus specified his sexuality *voiceover* "That was a mistake on my part,
I was actually rereading some other issues of WicDiv afte recording this and he does
actually mention his sexuality, he's ace!
So, yay! Ace representation!"
Inanna is like Luci in that they are a female goddess but incarnated in a male body, so
the reverse I guess.
They go by he/him pronouns but that's just because the haven't really found anything
that encapsulates all of what they are and they're also in a gay relationship with Baal,
who his first time with a guy was with Inanna.
Inanna was like his closet key so they're the other OTP of the series.
Then we've got Tara who at no point is really specified what she's into, and then we got
Urdr, and Urdr is a trans woman and is also involved in a...far as we can tell a poly
relationship with two other girls.
Okay, so that covers all of my queer books, I mean, I probably missed something, there's
probably something else back here, but after lifting all of those, so many of them are
hardcovers, my arms are so tired! *sigh* Anyways this would be the part where I tag people,
but I've kind of been fast and loose with the tagging or not tagging of people in the
past few videos just because I've seen a lot of pride videos going up on my feed and I
wasn't necessarily sure whether to tag people or not, whether people are gonna do this or
not, plus the fact that ChrisVigilante who tagged me for this basically tagged
everyone who I would've tagged as well.
So I wasn't really sure what to do, but I decided instead of explicitly tagging people,
I'm just gonna recommend my favourite queer booktubers.
So first up, like I said, we've got Chris Vigilante who tagged me for this video, he
also did this tag beforehand.
It's this awesome 20 minute long thing of book recommendations and I probably would've
gotten more recommendations off of that video if I hadn't already gotten so many from him
already peppered throughout his other videos.
(And of course everything I'm gonna link to in the bottom).
There's also Cas from CatsandCamera, who I also mentioned earlier in this video I think.
She did a two-part video on all of her gay and queer recommendations.
There's one video that was just books and another one that was also like, comics and
tv shows and I think she also did movies too?
She really just covered the whole gamut of stuff you can look for for representation,
so that was awesome.
Then we've got Dylan the Reader, he did a video on his top 5 LGBTQIA recommendations
and I thought that was a pretty good video, so I'm gonna recommend this as well.
And then, oh! Obviously we have RC from NekuTheBOOKlocke, he's like, my guy
when it comes to this kind of stuff.
He did the Rainbow Flag Book Tag last year, and so that's why I did mine just recently.
He also recently did this whole video on sexuality in literature and just sexuality in general,
and it was really good and it was really heartfelt.
So if you're not gonna watch his whole channel - well, what's wrong with you?
*chuckles* But if you're not gonna watch his whole channel then at least watch that video
because that's just such a good video.
And then we'e got RJ from RJReads; I don't think he's specifically done a video on queer
book recommendations or anything similar to that topic, but he is gay and he does do some
pretty good videos, so you should definitely throw some support his way as well.
And that's everyone I can think of!
If I missed you...sorry.
I've been recording this for an hour, I've been trying to get as much information as
I can, so I'm sure I accidentally skipped somebody.
Anyways, this is the part of the video where I ask for recommendations!
So you can recommend me other books or y'know, movies or tv shows or comics or YoutTubers
or strange-looking clouds that have really good queer representation, and I'll definitely
follow up on that at some point.
I have such a long list of things to get through.
It might be a while, but I'll definitely look at them before I die!
So in conclusion, queer books are great, happy pride everybody, and I'll see you all *snap* later!
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