Theme: All in the FamilySince it’s pride month and I’m sure you’re all tired of he
Theme: All in the FamilySince it’s pride month and I’m sure you’re all tired of hearing/reading about cishet people, here are a group of books with absolutely nothing in common except for the fact that all (and I do mean all) major and many side characters are LGB and/or T. The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde : Emmy King is the drummer for the newest teen sensation: the band The Brightsiders. Being suddenly shot to fame is difficult for most, and especially so for Emmy, who has emotionally manipulative parents, a toxic girlfriend, and substance abuse issues that gossip magazines are happy to spread around to the entire world. While she’s dealing with the fallout from a particularly bad night she’s also falling in love with one of her bandmates and is preparing to tell the world that she’s bisexual. Basically this whole band is LGBT and so many of their songs are about being out and proud and loving yourself while inspiring others. Read it for a story about the freedom of living openly and leaving behind the toxic people in your life.(bisexual girl main, NB love interest, prominent gay side characters) Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block : When an earthquake and tidal waves destroy Pen’s home in Los Angeles and turn much of the west coast into a wasteland, she sets off on a cross country quest to find what’s left of her family. She’s guided by nothing but her copy of the Odyssey and her own visions, and she soon picks up a motley group of LGBT youth just hoping to not be alone. Total destruction of the world’s climate and the arrival of murderous cyclopes (yes that is the plural of cyclops, and yes I had to look it up) doesn’t seem like the best time to fall in love, but that’s not always something we can choose. (bisexual girl main, trans boy love interest, prominent gay side characters)Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver : Welcome to the city of Parole, home to the gifted and/or cursed (depending on who you believe). When the miracle drug Chryesdrine was found to cure all ailments, thousands of people took it. And then thousands of them started dying. Those who didn’t ended up addicted and… different. Everyone with a Chryesdrine ability is shunted off to Parole, a little city slowly falling into the fires raging underneath it. Enter Regan, a man with lizard skin and the ability to turn invisible, who remembers absolutely nothing about his life or how he got to Parole. Luckily he has Evelyn Calliope, resident singer/superhero, and her two wives to help him pull together the pieces. Meanwhile, they’re running from the paramilitary group Eye in the Sky that keeps Parole citizens afraid that they’ll be the next to disappear and trying to uncover exactly what is going on in the Turret House on the hill.(f/f/f main couple including one trans women, asexual man lead, NB lead) Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman : Set in New York City in the 1990s, this novel centers around a friend group who’ve all faced rejection from their family and friends for coming out as gay now forming their own community and relationships with one another. These characters all have their own struggles apart from their relationships, David is HIV positive before some of the major breakthroughs in AIDS research and they all grapple with financial difficulties in an increasingly gentrifying area of NYC. Compared to the others on this list this is definitely not as happy a read, but one that shows the incredible solidarity between gay men and lesbians who’ve had to make their own families and support circles, especially at the peak of the AIDS crisis.(alternating POV between one gay man and two lesbians) -- source link