This Book Is Gay

This Book Is Gay

Taschenbuch
4.05

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Beschreibung

The bestselling young adult non-fiction book on sexuality and gender!
Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU.
This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality and what it's like to grow up LGBTQ also includes real stories from people across the gender and sexual spectrums, not to mention hilarious illustrations.
Inside this revised and updated edition, you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask, with topics like: Stereotypes―the facts and fiction Coming out as LGBT Where to meet people like you The ins and outs of gay sex How to flirt And so much more!
You will be entertained. You will be informed. But most importantly, you will know that however you identify (or don't) and whomever you love, you are exceptional. You matter. And so does this book.
This book is for: LGBTQIA+ teens, tweens, and adults Readers looking to learn more about the LGBTQIA+ community Parents of gay kids and other LGBT youth Educators looking for advice about the LGBTQIA+ community
Praise for This Book is Gay:
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
2018 Garden State Teen Book Award Winner
"The book every LGBT person would have killed for as a teenager, told in the voice of a wise best friend. Frank, warm, funny, USEFUL."―Patrick Ness, New York Times bestselling author
"This egregious gap has now been filled to a fare-thee-well by Dawson's book."―Booklist *STARRED REVIEW*
Coming soon from Juno Dawson: What's The T? (June 2022) The companion title to the groundbreaking This Book Is Gay, What's the T? tackles the complex realities of growing up trans with honesty and humor and is joyfully illustrated by gender non-conforming artist Soofiya.
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Beiträge

5
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5

Book #1 of Pride Month This is one of these books I believe everyone should read. It's aimed primarily at teens who struggle with their identity and/or sexuality, but honestly, it won't hurt if you read this as a straight cis person. It's non-fiction, tackles all of the most important issues concerning LGBTQIA*-related things and it's surprisingly funny. (Also kind of explicit, if you're squirmish about that.)

3

It was a good read and offered a great overview. The writing was good and humorous (eg.: “Just because LGBT* people are in a minority doesn’t mean they are not NORMAL. People with blue eyes are a minority too, but we don’t think of them as abnormal, do we? We don’t look at Jake Gyllenhaal and say, LOOK AT THAT MASSIVE BLUE-EYED FREAK!“) I liked the section about LGBT rights in different countries and reliogions because it gave me new information and I didn’t expect that part to be in the book. I liked the list of gay icons at the end as well since there were some I haven’t hear about before. However, I would have added others as well. I enjoyed the book at the beginning at thought I‘d give it a 4 or 5 stars review but I had the feeling that it focused more and more on gay men and therefore wasn’t very inclusive towards the middle of the book. It’s not a revolutionary one, however, it offers great information which more people should know about.

3

To be fair I only skimmed through it and read it here and there. It is entertaining and interesting to read but mostly for the younger people. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

5

read my complete review (with pictures) here: http://isabellsbooks.blogspot.de/ I must admit, I'm a big fan of this book. I loved it instantely. It's wonderfully structured and illustrated and it welcomes its reader very warmly into a comfortable reading zone. I experienced this book as a very easy, informative and comforting read. "This Book is Gay" creates a very safe space for its readers and is actually very important since it declares proudly and loudly that, whoever you are, whomever you love, that you are perfectly okay the way you are. And this is, in my opinion, a very important message. I found this book to be very lovely made and so wonderfully easy to read because the text is so clearly structured and all the illustrations very much complete the book and make it an even nicer read. I was a bit confused by the fact that the author wrote the book as a gay man but is now a straight trans woman because the author thereby contradicts herself sometimes within the book. Apprently, the edition that I own of the book, was edited after the author came out as trans - but some parts in it haven't really been edited and can confuse the reader a bit. It's actually a very encouraging and needed book for any queer person, especially to help young queer people to come to terms with their identities. I just felt so comfortable and happy and positive while reading this book - it's both so interesting and charming and witty and you actually learn a lot through it, while also having a great read. The chapter "Gays & Religion" was very appealing to me, since I felt like a lot of research had went into this chapter. I found it so interesting to actually read about what some religions base their condemnation against gay people on. This was very informative for me. CONCLUSION I loved this book very much. It had everything in it that I could have possibly hoped and wished for and actually also much more than that! Everyone, and especially queer people, should read this book! It's also a great book to own because you can look some things up again every once in a while. That's why I'm very happy that it stands proudly upon my bookshelf in its bright rainbow colours. I just loved every page of it and learned so much from it and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. - And honesty, what more could you want from a book? :)

4

„How to be gay - Alles über Coming-Out, Sex, Gender und Liebe“ von Juno Dawson ist am 26.08.2020 bei S. Fischer Verlage erschienen. Es ist eine Neuauflage und ist schon einmal 2015 unter dem selben Titel, aber noch unter dem Namen James Dawson erschienen. Sie ist Transexuell und klärt in diesem Buch über LGBTQ+ auf. Übersetzt wurde das Buch von Volker Oldenburg. Es gibt zwei verschiedene Cover. Das neuere finde ich viel schöner als das Alte (wobei das bei meinem Ebook genauso aussieht) und das Original. Es wirkt durch die Schrift und knalligen Farben moderner und enthält auch eindeutig die Regenbogenfarben, genauso wie die LGBTQ+ Flagge aussieht. Da die Hauptzielgruppen Jungendliche und junge Erwachsene sind passt das sehr gut. Der Titel ist passend gewählt. Man weiß sofort worum es geht. Der Originaltitel lautet „This book is gay“. Die deutsche Übersetzung finde ich persönlich besser, da man sich so mehr angesprochen fühlt und es etwas lustiger ist. Der Schreibstil ist locker und lustig. Ab und zu hätte ich es mir ganz gerne ein bisschen sachlicher gewünscht, da ich es ab und zu ein bisschen over the top gefunden habe. Ein bisschen Übersetzungsprobleme sind mir auch aufgefallen. Es gab einige Fälle in denen nicht richtig gegendert worden ist. So war zum Beispiel in einigen Fällen nur von „dem Partner“, aber nicht von „der Partnerin“ die Rede. Normalerweise ist mir dieses allgemeine gendern relativ egal, ABER in diesem Buch geht es unteranderem um das richtige Gendern und dann sollte man auch darauf achten. Man ist es im deutschen gewohnt, dass meistens nur männlich gegendert wird. Da haben es andere Sprachen einfacher. Zum Beispiel im Englischen gibt es nur „the partner“ für im deutschen „der Partner/Lebensgefährte“ und „die Partnerin/die Lebensgefährtin“. In diesem Buch erzählt die Autorin nicht nur über ihre eigenen Erfahrungen, sondern lässt auch die Erfahrungen von anderen Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen mit einfließen. Ab und zu gibt es auch Zeichnungen und Statistiken. Das lockert das Ganze noch ein bisschen mehr auf und bringt Abwechslung. Fazit: Eins der besten LGBTQ+ Bücher! Hier werden die ganzen Begriffe von gay, lesbisch, bi und LGBTQ+ über Gender, Liebe und Sex einzeln auseinandergenommen und gut erklärt. Mit Klischees wird aufgeräumt. Ein paar Aussagen der Autorin würde ich nicht unbedingt zustimmen, aber es ist ein lockeres Aufklärungsbuch über ein sehr wichtiges Thema. Das Buch ist auch schon für ältere Kinder geeignet. Egal wie viel man über das ganze Thema schon weiß, hier lernt man noch einiges dazu!

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