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Super Gay Reading List

The Long Run by James Acker Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Another Dimension of Us by Mike Albo Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak Alan Cole Is Not a Coward by Eric Bell Alan Cole Doesn’t Dance by Eric Bell The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara Peter Darling by Austin Chant Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich Half Bad by Sally Green Half Wild by Sally Green Half Lost by Sally Green Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green Gay Club by Simon James Green We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra Totally Joe by James Howe After School Activities by Dirk Hunter At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly Straight by Jeff Jacobson Haffling by Caleb James The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune A Destiny of Dragons by T.J. Klune The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune A Wish Upon the Stars by T.J. Klune The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune Flash Fire by T.J. Klune Heat Wave by T.J. Klune The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan Every Day by David Levithan Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden When Ryan Came Back by Devon McCormack Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Fraternity by Andy Mientus The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller Hero by Perry Moore I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson More Than This by Patrick Ness Junior Hero Blues by J.K. Pendragon The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid Kens by Raziel Reid Jack of Hearts by Lev A.C. Rosen Camp by Lev A.C. Rosen Carry On by Rainbow Rowell Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer All Kinds of Other by James Sie They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith Freak Show by James St. James Ray of Sunlight by Brynn Stein The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis 366 Days by Kiyoshi Tanaka The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes Always the Almost by Edward Underhill Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Blue= realistic fiction Purple=fantasy/magic Green=for younger readers Pink=sci fi/magical realism

if you want help picking out a book send me an ask, also I love it when people let me know they read a book off the list

[weirdmageddon]

glad to know people will still be experiencing this video for the first time this daylight savings

[twoguysonebeartrap]

everyone shut up by far the best aspect of any tma “jon timetravels to s1” scenario is him looking at sasha and going Uh. is that what you look like? and sasha’s like

[itsjustaphase-mom]

“um. who’s that?” “wh-you mean sasha????” “THATS SASHA???”

[itsnotvinebutitsfine]

| That’s…. not how that works

[leupagus]

This woman deserves an oscar

[it-is-a-mystery]

same energy

[greia]

Transcript:

Person in scrubs: This was a conversation I had while working at a retail pharmacy.

Person in scrubs: Hi ma’am, how can I help you today?

Customer: [rude, sounding bored] I need to refill my birth control.

Scrubs: Sure, let me check on that. Hm, it looks like you’re a little early. Did the doctor change the way you’re taking it?

Customer: [snidely] No, he told me exactly how to take it and that’s exactly how I’m taking it.

Scrubs: Okay, why don’t you tell me how you’re taking it, and I’ll make sure we wrote the correct directions the first time.

Customer: [rudely] I take one every morning at 8 AM, and so does my boyfriend.

Scrubs: [long pause, blinking] What?

[luthorchickv2]

I am shrieking with laughter but only because if I don’t laugh I will burst into tears. 

[anarchist-memes-1]

[chthonic-isabelleadjani-deactiv]

and what is “translate truthful to the time it was written” even supposed to mean like there’s no way a translation now in the US could be read the same way it was a couple thousand years ago in Greece when english didn’t even exist yet

[sinbrook]

Yep, in the original Odyssey, in the scene where Telemachus murders the slaves who were “sullied by” Penelope’s suiters, he refers to them with a word that roughly just means “the female ones”, however most translations will use words like “whores”, “sluts” and “creatures”, these were all choices of the translators. The original text did not refer to them that way. Dr. Wilson refers to them instead as “girls”, to highlight their age and the brutality of the action. She also fixed all the times the previous male translators dodged around the existence of slaves in the text. Where they call slaves anything but slaves (housemaid, nurse, cook, ect.) Dr. Wilson’s translation correctly calls them slaves as in the original texts. It’s really a great translation, it doesn’t soften anything, and lays bare the reality of the story. One thing she did too, was she refused to make the descriptions of the women in the story more palatable to modern western beauty standards. The original text, for example, describes Penelope’s hands as “thick”. Most male translators change this to “steady” but Dr. Wilson’s translation calls them “firm, muscular hands” to correctly portray the original intent, that Penelope, as a character who weaves every day and every night undoes her weavings, has strong hands, as weaving does make one’s hands more muscular, and that was clearly what was originally intended to be said given the context of her character and the weavings. Of Odysseus himself, the original epic calls him “polytropos” poly, meaning many, and tropos, meaning turn. Some male translators used this to say the story itself had twists and turns, other ignored the word completely to write in a way that made Odysseus seem as though a straight up hero, a man “skilled in all ways of contending”, but Dr. Wilson uses it to mean “complicated”, because Odysseus isn’t a straight up hero, he does some really shitty things. So her translation got a lot of men very very mad, because they said that her being a woman has caused her to translate with bias since her translation is so different to others. She pointed out that perhaps people should have suggested that bias in the inaccurate men’s translations. Anyway, go read Dr. Wilson’s version of The Odyssey. It’s very good.

[spooksandwheezes]

this bitch said “,okay,”

[raviposting]

Shane: “If you are going to kill me, turn the right one off.”

[music note as flashlight turns off]

Shane: “Okay!”

[flower-and-thorn-deactivated202]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[runcibility]

One of the few times it's 100% perfect to have an older white dude with a beard mansplain to a young girl.

[pbrim]

Except that is not mansplaining -- mansplaining is a man, assuming he knows everything better than women simply by virtue of being a man, trying to explain something he doesn’t know that much about to a woman who is expert in that area.  This is a man sharing his knowledge with a woman who has clearly demonstrated she has no idea what she is talking about.  That’s just called explaining.

[darthsuki]

Not to mention, as far as I personally took his tone and choice of words, he's being fairly respectful about explaining her misunderstanding of what the term 'white' means when in the conversation of culture and ethnicity.

[lotusofhope]

Ok so I totally agree with most of what's said here, except the last reblog - men often act "respectful" when mansplaining; it's part of its insidious nature and why it's so hard to bring it up. They will use all "logical" words with no emotion, and accuse you of being too emotional when that rightfully pisses you the fuck off.

What the guy did here is not mansplaining, he did not assume he knew better because he was a man, but mansplaining absolutely can come off as "respectful and educational" - that's what's so god damn condescending about it.

[darthsuki]

I think you misunderstand what I mean when I’m using the term ‘respectful’. By the nature of the action, mansplaining is not respectful at all, regardless of the word choice or tone used--the act in itself of someone acting like they know more and pushing that onto another person, especially in the case of a man acting as if he knows more than a woman by case of his being a man alone, is inherently disrespectful. 

Context is incredibly important, as the context and the method of communication is what makes this ‘respectful correction’ rather than ‘mansplaining’. 

I understand what mansplaining is, and devaluing the act of being genuinely respectful when correcting someone, especially in this case, simply pushes it away in favor of saying ‘well ALL mansplaining can sound polite so it doesn’t count anyway’. Being able to understand what is genuine respect vs forced and heavy-handed respect is an important aspect to understand what is mansplaining and what is simply a human trying to educate another.

[lilacfwog-deactivated20251108]

he looks at me and I look at him

[lgbt-tiktoks]

[viejospellejos]

AUDIO POR DIOSSSSSS!!!!

[slr2198]

Beyond perfect 🤣👍

[5triderofthenorth]

Dude’s got pipes

[vodkassassin]

Damn he is BELTING it.

[thosedamnsmoshkids]

hi what the actual FUCK does THIS ONE MEAN

[melxncholymermxid]

Bautista said “say it with your chest”

[azcrowleyfell]

For those who may not know, Dave Bautista is the (former) WWE wrestler Batista

He also plays this gay-ass autistic alien:

He also posted this delightful tweet in response to some homophobic Catholic bullshit:

And he’s been very openly anti-Trump:

https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/dave-bautista-controversial-donald-trump-tweet-divides-fans-wwe-marvel-guardians-star/

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[scarecrowqueen]

This dude took one look at homophobia, bigotry, and toxic masculinity and said ‘fuck that’ and then crushed them all with his enormous biceps and I think that was very excellent of him.

[tygermama]

He looks like he gives great hugs

[sav3th3b33s]

[blogging-at-your-funeral]

[lessdanthree]

what drugs were they on when they made this

[meanmisscharles]

Cab Calloway rotascoped!

[badgyal-k-deactivated20190901]

Whoever thought of this was drinking absinthe

[protectblkwomen]

Thanks, Now I have nightmares

[brunhiddensmusings]

this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40 betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

[peathefeary]

idk why this is making me so emotional???

[mcloveleigh]

I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons

[melaninondeck-deactivated201907]

Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.

[gdchans]

Michael Sheen: No one except those from Wales can pronounce this 

David Tennant: Hold my whisky 

[ijustgotpeggedinabentley]

[wlkrmagna]

I'm DEVASTATED 💔

[goawfma]

lil matt damon SNAPPED

[willsmithsmackedtheshitoutofme]

He looks exactly like Matt Damon

[te-amo-corazon]

the finger points 😭😭

[theseriouscynic]

Him and this gif have the same energy

[onlyblackgirlintheclass2]

He dragged him for not listening lmao

[cheese-greater-official]

The guy in the corner has the face of a man who has witnessed a murder and is absolutely loving it

[call-me-bitchmael]

That teacher is working so hard to keep his cool but I am a teacher, I speak teacher, and that man is having the best day of his entire career

[theperksofbeingaperk]

[jinxfmrl]

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.

[republicansareahategroup]

don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA

[shadsiethewriter-deactivated202]

I’ve seen it and shared it before.  I love it.  It’s amazing how much of history is relevant today.  It’s kind of sad… it’s like we didn’t fully learn our lessons and have to repeat them.  History is a damn wheel.