LGBT
荧屏在发光 (2024) 豆瓣 IMDb TMDB Eggplant.place
I Saw the TV Glow
8.1 (50 个评分) 导演: Jane Schoenbrun 演员: 贾斯提斯·史密斯 / 布里吉特·伦迪-潘恩
其它标题: 빛나는 TV를 보았다 / I Saw the TV Glow
 欧文(贾斯蒂斯·史密斯 Justice Smith 饰)和麦迪(布里盖特·伦迪·佩恩 Brigette Lundy-Paine 饰)因一档深夜超自然节目而结缘,然而这档节目却神秘地被取消了,在暗淡的电视灯光下,他们对现实的看法开始变得模糊不清。
2024年7月25日 看过
越想后劲越大的片子,是那种要在看完之后回头细品然后自己给自己捅几刀的片子……看起来叙事非常隐晦,毕竟全程都是隐喻只字未提trans,但当你意识到这一点,会发现全片处处都在shout out trans narrative……Tara/Maddy在星座前面的那段自述,令人动容,又痛彻心扉,回想起来都后悔当时没为她多落几滴泪的程度,加上Owen叫她Maddy时她坚定地说“这不是我的名字”……除了trans叙事,也是很好的queer叙事,甚至你我何尝不皆是如此,看到自己的心脏仍在跳动,在工业冰箱里……
也正是如此,Owen最后的结局更让人无力叹息……剖开胸口,看到电视的光始终在自己心里,但还是走出去,近乎窒息地向所有人说“对不起”……他有选择吗?也许有,或者说有过,或许仍然有,Tara/Maddy向他伸手给了他一线生机……可是要做真正的自己,就要把现在这个看似被众人接纳的自己杀死啊……谁又做得到呢……
LGBT 恐怖 文艺 美国
Bury Your Gays 谷歌图书
作者: Chuck Tingle Tor Publishing Group 2024 - 07
An instant USA Today and Indie bestseller!

Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

"Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gays brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts."—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep

Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.

But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale.

Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles.

Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future—before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good.

Also by Chuck Tingle
Camp Damascus

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
2024年7月21日 已读
这本比较意外之喜,虽然一直不太敢看恐怖小说,而且这本还真挺恐怖的(瑟瑟发抖.jpg),但不得不承认每一个恐怖场景的气氛塑造都好优秀(哇这个Mrs Why是什么噩梦素材我谢谢你啊),节奏把控也非常出色,整体感觉紧凑又不会太赶,每个伏笔都得到完美回收,单作为恐怖小说来看也是很出彩
不过让我打满分的原因还是非常喜欢这本的queer representation,男主Misha(gay)和他的男朋友Ezekiel(bi,srds现实世界真的有人叫这个名字吗【。)、柏拉图好友Tara(aroace)之间的关系写得深得我心,首先完全没有把浪漫关系置于柏拉图关系之上的操作,其次男友和好友相处非常融洽毫无芥蒂,最后三个人之间形成的互相信任的团队关系真是恐怖小说里少有的正能量啊!要是所有恐怖小说里主角一说自己的遭遇,周围的亲朋好友就像他们这样全盘相信,那能少死多少人啊(bushi
这本最核心的冲突是制片公司要求男主违背自己的初衷,把他塑造的两个角色写成直人爱看的queer tragedy,男主拒绝后发现他自己塑造的恐怖片角色逐一出现在他的世界里,男主调查后发现幕后黑手是制片公司用于最大化利益的算法(这种具像化capitalism的做法够聪明啊)当男主经历奥斯卡之夜,几乎用一己之力对抗了直人对queer tragedy的迷恋之后,我就觉得事情没那么简单,当资本靠塑造并娱乐化刻板LGBT形象赚钱,结果并不优于推崇queer tragedy,而真正的diversity恰恰是很难受到这种利益至上的算法的青睐的……
如果仅仅写到这里结束,我会给这本书四星,每个speech和representation都很好,在叙述他青春期因为性向遭受的trauma和此后的内化恐同的同时,又给了他强有力的queer同伴的支撑,看似完满但又少了点真正触动我的东西……然而进展到结尾,我被征服了……Tara战胜算法的方式看起来过于轻而易举,但又多么合情合理!直人看不到的asexual才是真正拯救世界的英雄,甚至连模拟都模拟不出一个asexual的直人世界,灰飞烟灭也是应该的,所以asexual saves the day的故事就是最好的!
叠甲(伪):上述书评没有歧视任何性取向的意思,“直人”指的不是性取向而是一种mindset,如果你觉得被冒犯了,那说的就是你
LGBT 惊悚 美国
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles 谷歌图书
作者: Pedro Lemebel Penguin 2024 - 05
“Intoxicating . . . Sexy, political and deeply humane . . . We all owe Penguin Classics a round of shots for A Last Supper of Queer Apostles.” —The Washington Post

A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time

A Penguin Classic

“I speak from my difference,” wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile’s AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays—known as crónicas—that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile’s locas—a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims—his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly “disappeared” by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world.

For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
2024年7月17日 已读
这本在goodreads上rating也非常少,queer POC外加是非虚构,意料之中的小众,应该属于被埋没的宝石了……虽然是散文,但是作者文笔非常好(如果翻译真实还原原文的话),写出了散文诗的感觉,但内容却很少抒情,更多鲜血淋漓的痛……集子里涉及到革命/叛乱、性和罪化同性恋、艾滋病等等,都是非常真实的切肤之痛……语言非常诗化,但叙述却直白和不加掩饰,这种看似矛盾的组合实则毫无违和感,非常神奇的阅读体验
LGBT 散文集 智利 非虚构
Brokeback Mountain 谷歌图书
作者: Annie Proulx Simon and Schuster 2005
The story of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys who share a small tent while working as herders and camp tenders during a summer spent on a range far above the tree line. They fall into a relationship that at first seems solely sexual but then reveals itself to be something more. Both men marry and have families, but over the course of many years and frequent separations they find their relationship becomes the most important thing in both their lives, and they do anything they can to maintain it. Proulx's description of their bond is beautiful and haunting and often brutal in its portrayal of the hardships, and ultimately the violence, they face.
2024年7月6日 已读
很短的一篇,文笔是凝练甚至有些粗砺的,情节之间几乎没有什么过渡可言,但又非常丰富和充沛,短短一两句的描写、对话就带来心口一阵钝痛……大概也是看电影的时候太年轻,已经忘了是这么depressing的故事,但听到后来又突然发现几句最痛的台词我还记得,还有最后两件叠在一起挂着的衬衫……可见记忆力是多么有趣的东西……这本应该是比较早的表现性向探索和性少数处境的书了,这方面其实写得很克制,一种点到即止的感觉……当所有人告诉他Jack死于意外,Ennis却在第一时间怀疑是被杀害,着墨极少但已是点出了最深的恐怖
LGBT 爱情
Death's Country 谷歌图书
作者: R. M. Romero Holiday House 2024 - 05
Lakelore meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve their girlfriend’s soul.

Andres Santos of São Paulo was all swinging fists and firecracker fury, a foot soldier in the war between his parents, until he drowned in the Tietê River… and made a bargain with Death for a new life. A year later, his parents have relocated the family to Miami, but their promises of a fresh start quickly dissolve in the summer heat.

Instead of fists, Andres now uses music to escape his parents’ battles. While wandering Miami Beach, he meets two girls: photographer Renee, a blaze of fire, and dancer Liora, a ray of sunshine. The three become a polyamorous triad, happy, despite how no one understands their relationship. But when a car accident leaves Liora in a coma, Andres and Renee are shattered.

Then Renee proposes a radical solution: She and Andres must go into the underworld to retrieve their girlfriend’s spirit and reunite it with her body—before it’s too late. Their search takes them to the City of the dead, where painters bleed color, songs grow flowers, and regretful souls will do anything to forget their lives on earth. But finding Liora’s spirit is only the first step in returning to the living world. Because when Andres drowned, he left a part of himself in the underworld—a part he’s in no hurry to meet again. But it is eager to be reunited with him...

In verse as vibrant as the Miami skyline, critically acclaimed author R.M. Romero has crafted a masterpiece of magical realism and an openhearted ode to the nature of healing.
2024年6月25日 已读
看起来只是普普通通的YA fantasy,其实意外好看,首先作者的文笔已经超过了90%的YA作者,诗化的语言很优美灵动,充满力量,其次我就喜欢拉丁裔LGBT这种zzzq叠buff的操作,更不要说主角还是polyamorous。难得的是这本不仅表现了一个polyamorous relationship,还表现了身处其中的人如何被monogamy的人误解、质疑甚至压迫,知道三个人的关系后Liora母亲的反应和Andres父母的反应就是典型例证,最后Liora出车祸昏迷然后Renee和Andres去冥府救她的故事虽然是基于希腊神话Orpheus和Eurydice的故事,但又非常反套路,Andres去冥府的一路都在自责,认为是自己和Death的交易导致Liora的灵魂不得不进入冥府,还一直不敢告诉Renee,然而让他真的告诉Renee,Renee一句“她的生命是她自己的,不由其他任何人掌管”,轻描淡写地扭转了古典神话的这一惯用套路。之后Liora的全部行动也正证实了这一点——自己决定交出记忆,自己决定留在冥府,甚至“出事故”这件事本身很可能也是她自己决定的,而最终也是被爱人说服,自己决定离开冥府,而非普遍意义上的“被拯救”,真是十分罕见的、强悍又富有能动性的Eurydice。当然大多数情节本身有点predictable,非常符合YA特点,但这本书的表现已经足够拉好感了。
LGBT YA 奇幻 浪漫
Ace 豆瓣 Goodreads 谷歌图书
9.1 (28 个评分) 作者: Angela Chen Beacon Press 2020 - 9
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.
What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face—confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships—are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, Ace addresses the misconceptions around the “A” of LGBTQIA and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.
Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of asexual people. Vulnerable and honest, these stories include a woman who had blood tests done because she was convinced that “not wanting sex” was a sign of serious illness, and a man who grew up in a religious household and did everything “right,” only to realize after marriage that his experience of sexuality had never been the same as that of others. Disabled aces, aces of color, gender-nonconforming aces, and aces who both do and don’t want romantic relationships all share their experiences navigating a society in which a lack of sexual attraction is considered abnormal. Chen’s careful cultural analysis explores how societal norms limit understanding of sex and relationships and celebrates the breadth of sexuality and queerness.
2024年6月3日 已读
写得非常浅显的科普,主要笔墨集中在分享和分析案例,讨论基本也是从案例衍生出来,但讲得确实很浅,属于是单反对这个问题有过比较系统性的思考,就会觉得她讨论的内容你心里已经有了答案……然而浅并不算是缺点,甚至反而是优点,这本算是比较早讨论asexual和ace community的作品了,对于读者而言,尤其是大多数也许并没接触、思考过asexual这个概念的allo群体而言,由浅入深的“科普”非常必要,浅并不影响其作为无性恋入门读物的价值,比较喜欢的是有关无性恋+残疾/孤独症患者群体的讨论,以及由无性恋的性关系引发到全社会对性同意定义的讨论
LGBT 美国 非虚构
Hecate's Hollow 谷歌图书
作者: Tallie Rose Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp 2022 - 09
A Snow White and Rose Red retelling Besides the blood drinking and international crime, she's the perfect woman... Lemon has spent the last twenty years hidden away from her abusive father in the mountain town of Hecate's Hollow, a safe haven for witches like Lemon and her family. But that safety comes to an end the day she trips down an embankment and is honest-to-god swept off her feet by Claudia. It would be just like the romantic movies she loves, except Claudia is an international thief, cursed to live like a vampire by her witch hunter ex-boss, Julian. Lemon knows she should stay out of it, but curiosity and the urge to play the hero for a beautiful woman get the better of her. Talented at divining the ingredients for potions, Lemon agrees to help brew a cure, not expecting to find herself caught up in the very life her mother ran from years ago. Lemon thinks it will be easy enough to help Claudia - a few hikes for obscure ingredients, some clandestine kisses, and favors from farmers, nothing too dangerous - until Julian comes to claim what's his. With her girlfriend in the hands of a monster, Lemon can't hide anymore. She must leave Hecate's Hollow and learn just what she's really capable of.
2024年6月1日 已读
据说是Snow White ans Rose Red的重述,不过原著我都没读过……这个重述似乎也没有什么童话故事的感觉,就是很典型的YA奇幻,有吸血鬼fantasy地的那种……不过角色塑造太一般了,不仅每个配角都很平板没有记忆点,就连Lemon和Claudia都没什么特色,太普通了,倒是Lemon的姐姐Ruby突然“我要演”反差萌让我笑到了……剧情平铺直叙甚至有点狗血,倒是queer community的塑造有点意思——重点不是几乎每个角色都是queer,而是女巫这个设定本身就有点queer,还有那个不受女巫魔法影响的abusive father/husband反派,好典
LGBT YA 奇幻 美国
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes 谷歌图书
作者: Cat Sebastian HarperCollins 2022 - 06
Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her.
Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee to the countryside. Unfortunately, the only person she can ask for help is the charismatic criminal who is blackmailing her—and who she may have left tied up a few hours before…A highwayman, con artist, and all-around cheerful villain, Rob Brooks is no stranger to the wrong side of the law or the right side of anybody’s bed. He never meant to fall for the woman whose secrets he promised to keep for the low price of five hundred pounds, but how could he resist someone who led him on a merry chase all over London, left him tied up in a seedy inn, and then arrived covered in her husband’s blood and in desperate need of his help?As they flee across the country—stopping to pick pockets, drink to excess, and rescue invalid cats—they discover more true joy and peace than either has felt in ages. But when the truth of Rob’s past catches up to him, they must decide if they are willing to reshape their lives in order to forge a future together.
2024年4月29日 已读
迅速读完的无脑romance,是Kit Webb那本的续作,主线是Rob写信勒索以及Marian杀了公爵这些故事的细节但是谁在乎【。这本的主线存在感比Kit Webb那本还弱……重点显然还是在Marian和Rob的关系上……讲真读以前就知道设定是两个人都是双性恋,但还是担心过会不会写得太直人谈恋爱(贬义,直人如果觉得被冒犯那不要怀疑就是你的问题(。实话讲开始觉得有一点,越到后面越觉得还是跳出了这个框架的,更像是Marian主导Rob服从的D/S,无论是性还是日常交往都是这个dynamic,虽然两个人的相处模式并不算太戳我,化学反应一般般,但这个处理还是超出预期的……发展到最后是一个Robin Hood+found family的故事,所以虽然古早同人文味儿很冲,它还是很queer的,作为暖心无脑读物也够用了(存在一点问题是这本banter含量真的有点超标,人物设定的原因,Percy和Marian对话的时候我,一个如此喜欢看banter的人,都觉得脑阔子疼
LGBT Romance 英国
The Other Significant Other 豆瓣
9.8 (5 个评分) 作者: Rhaina Cohen 2024 - 2
Why do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who put deep friendship at the center of their lives?
In The Other Significant Others, NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner—these are friends who are home co-owners, co-parents or each other’s caregivers. Their riveting stories unsettle widespread assumptions about relationships, including the idea that sex is a defining feature of partnership and that people who raise kids together should be in a romantic relationship. Platonic partners from different walks of life—spanning age and religion, gender and sexuality and more—reveal how freeing and challenging it can be to embrace a relationship model that society doesn't recognize. And they show that orienting your world around friends isn't limited to daydreams and episodes of The Golden Girls, but actually possible in real life.
Based on years of original reporting and striking social science research, Cohen argues that we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them, while we diminish friendships by expecting too little of them. She traces how, throughout history, our society hasn’t always fixated on marriage as the greatest source of meaning, or even love. At a time when many Americans are spending large stretches of their lives single, widowed or divorced, or feeling the effects of the "loneliness epidemic," Cohen insists that we recognize the many forms of profound connection that can anchor our lives. A rousing and incisive book, The Other Significant Others challenges us to ask what we want from our relationships—not just what we’re supposed to want—and transforms how we define a fulfilling life.
2024年3月1日 已读
鼓励性五星,实际上大概也能打到4星到4星半,看起来是有点零散的访谈实录,记录了包括作者本人亲身经历在内的好几段以友谊(实际是Queer platonic relationship)为核心的亲密关系,但作者有意识涵盖了整个人生中的多个重要方面,除了日常生活的陪伴,还有养育孩子、老年关怀、疾病陪护,还有死亡以及与死亡紧密相关的悲痛,把这个抽象的概念具体化,并且探讨了以异性恋夫妻和核心家庭为范式的法律体系对这类“非常规”的关系形成了怎样的阻碍,即便在同婚已经合法且得到了较为广泛的认可的北美,compulsory coupledom依然对QPR/PLP以及non-monogamy的人群产生了事实上的伤害,而社会和文化层面的广泛认可更是遥不可及,大多数人对所谓的几千年传统“一夫一妻制”理所当然地奉为圭臬,却对几万年的传统视而不见甚至嗤之以鼻……QPR/PLP看似是非常aspectrum的概念,但实际上(哪怕只看本作中提到的案例)实施这种关系的人群覆盖各个取向,也正是这种超越性取向、浪漫取向光谱,而真正触及关系本身的光谱的讨论,才是可能撼动男权社会所有关系范式的突破口。
LGBT 亲密关系 美国
Fire Becomes Her 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Rosiee Thor Scholastic Press 2022 - 2
In Rosiee Thor's lavish fantasy novel with a Jazz Age spark, a politically savvy teen must weigh her desire to climb the social ladder against her heart in a world where magic buys votes.
Flare is power.
With only a drop of flare, one can light the night sky with fireworks . . . or burn a building to the ground -- and seventeen-year-old Ingrid Ellis wants her fair share.
Ingrid doesn't have a family fortune, monetary or magical, but at least she has a plan: Rise to the top on the arm of Linden Holt, heir to a hefty political legacy and the largest fortune of flare in all of Candesce. Her only obstacle is Linden's father who refuses to acknowledge her.
So when Senator Holt announces his run for president, Ingrid uses the situation to her advantage. She strikes a deal to spy on the senator’s opposition in exchange for his approval and the status she so desperately craves. But the longer Ingrid wears two masks, the more she questions where her true allegiances lie.
Will she stand with the Holts, or will she forge her own path?
2023年3月20日 已读
救命 Monica给一本YA打了四星!其实真就是很正常的 YA情节,主线YA得令我着急然而,这个主线应该只是一个用来铺开情感线的框架吧,这个情感线写得..可以说是非常动人了…...实话讲我是没有想到有一天还能在一本书里找到aro spec birep的,而找到的瞬间感受是惊人的,comfort and affirmation,也许我在找到rep的那一瞬间才意识到自己之前是这么的动摇和自我怀疑,这么渴望找到同类,外加这本书里对(与romantic love并行的qpr)描绘得那么美好让人安心,enbyrep和ace rep的处理我也很喜欢,读完这本书最大的感受就是知道了这个世界上的人际关系有可能是我理想中的样子,representation matters
LGBT YA 美国
In the Dream House 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.5 (13 个评分) 作者: Carmen Maria Machado Graywolf Press 2019 - 11
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope―the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman―through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
2023年4月6日 已读
4.5,短小又深邃的实验性文本,用着被切得很碎看似很轻快的形式,讲述的确是沉重和痛苦的话题,作者真的很擅长把queerhistory、相关的思考和自己的经历结合起来,lesbian abusive relationship是一个鲜有人涉及的话题,作者在这本回忆录中把写这个话题的意图和自己的反思也表达得很完整,文笔也是非常秀丽,这么短小的文本能做到这样实属不易了
LGBT 美国
Not Good for Maidens 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Tori Bovalino Page Street YA 2022 - 5
Lou never believed in superstitions or magic--until her teenage aunt Neela is kidnapped to the goblin market.
The market is a place Lou has only read about--twisted streets, offerings of sweet fruits and incredible jewels. Everything--from the food and wares, to the goblins themselves--is a haunting temptation for any human who manages to find their way in.
Determined to save Neela, Lou learns songs and spells and tricks that will help her navigate this dangerous world and slip past a goblin's defenses--but she only has three days to find Neela before the market disappears and her aunt becomes one of them forever.
If she isn't careful, the market might just end up claiming her too.
2023年5月9日 已读
三星半,一些 YA horror/fantasy,情节、设定和写法都很YA,但是仔细一脑补的话那一堆body parts and organs应该更像一部血浆片(Monica颤抖.gif),不过有意思,而且全程这个约克郡口音未免过于亲切!人物真的很讨喜~主要角色都是女性,Lou的女巫家族总有一种母系族群的即视感,即使忽略Lou真的是queer这一点,她仍旧日真的好queer,死到临头一脸无辜说“可是我没有违反规则"那边看起来很 anticlimactic但是我只想说是真的ace行为,并行的18年前May的故事线也写得不错,时空交错感很强,另外真喜欢Atra啊(虽然她的名字是这么拼吗听audiobook的尴尬。。。
LGBT 小说 惊悚 美国
In the Lives of Puppets 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: TJ Klune Tor Books 2023 - 4
New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
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“An enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times.” ―P. Djèlí Clark
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots―fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
★ “An epic quest of rescue and discovery [with] the author’s trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness.” ―Library Journal, starred review
Praise for TJ Klune’s previous work: "Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket." ―V.E. SCHWAB • “Very close to perfect.” ―SEANAN McGUIRE • “Utterly absorbing.” ―GAIL CARRIGER • "It will renew your faith in humanity.” ―TERRY BROOKS • “It healed me.” ―CASSANDRA KHAW • “Compassionate.” ―RYKA AOKI
2023年5月28日 已读
很有意思的设定,嘴上说是 retelling of Pinocchio(也确实有很多 Pinocchio的影子尤其是马戏团那段),但我听的时候一直在绿野仙踪和弗兰肯斯坦之间反复横跳然后还觉得自己很有道理,总的来说写得太拖了,搞笑的部分比较多但是属于喜欢的人会觉得有意思不喜欢的人 get不到那种,比如Nurse是真的很戳我笑点,但是Rambo,我知道你是个小可爱,可我真的很难笑.…总的来说是一个比较典型的ace+found family的故事,但是多少也有点aro vibe(可是大多数主要角色是机器人啊你醒醒)有关vic和HAP的感情处理其实还挺讨我喜欢的,中间一段是真的有点拖
LGBT 小说 美国
Bi 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Julia Shaw Harry N. Abrams 2022 - 6
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decades in regards to sexuality, the subject remains one of the most influential but least understood aspects of our lives. For psychologist and bestselling author Julia Shaw, this is both professional and personal—Shaw studies the science of sexuality and she herself is proudly and vocally bisexual.<br /><br /> It’s an admission, she writes, that usually causes people’s pupils to dilate, their cheeks to flush, and their questions to start flowing. Ask people to name famous bisexual actors, politicians, writers, or scientists, and they draw a blank. Despite statistics that show bisexuality is more common than homosexuality, bisexuality is often invisible.<br /><br /> In <i>BI: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality</i>, Shaw probes the science and culture of attraction beyond the binary. From the invention of heterosexuality to the history of the Kinsey scale, as well as asylum seekers trying to defend their bisexuality in a court of law, there is so much more to explore than most have ever realized. Drawing on her own original research—and her own experiences—this is a personal and scientific manifesto; it’s an exploration of the complexities of the human sexual experience and a declaration of love and respect for the nonconformists among us.
2023年6月4日 已读
Pride month读Bi的我~实际上材料组织略微有点乱,也并没有什么非常enlightening的信息,感觉这么短的篇幅想要讨论的内容这么多还是有点勉强,但是大多数论据和论证过程还比较令人信服,比较喜欢最后有关consensualnon-monogamy relationship的讨论,但是对bisexual仅是umbrella term的定义有点不能赞同,直觉bi、pan和omni实际上的差异还是挺明显的
LGBT 美国 非虚构
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: Cat Sebastian Avon 2021 - 6
<b>Critically acclaimed author Cat Sebastian makes her trade paperback debut in a stunning historical romance about a reluctantly reformed highwayman and the aristocrat who threatens to steal his heart.</b><br /><br />Kit Webb has left his stand-and-deliver days behind him. But dreary days at his coffee shop have begun to make him pine for the heady rush of thievery. When a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop, Kit quickly realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this highborn man desires.<br /><br />In order to save himself and a beloved friend, Percy, Lord Holland must go against every gentlemanly behavior he holds dear to gain what he needs most: a book that once belonged to his mother, a book his father never lets out of his sight and could be Percy’s savior. More comfortable in silk-filled ballrooms than coffee shops frequented by criminals, his attempts to hire the roughly hewn highwayman, formerly known as Gladhand Jack, proves equal parts frustrating and electrifying.<br /><br />Kit refuses to participate in the robbery but agrees to teach Percy how to do the deed. Percy knows he has little choice but to submit and as the lessons in thievery begin, he discovers thievery isn’t the only crime he’s desperate to commit with Kit.<br /><br />But when their careful plan goes dangerously wrong and shocking revelations threaten to tear them apart, can these stolen hearts withstand the impediments in their path?
2023年8月20日 已读
三星半大概?哦我居然看了一本cheesyqueer historical romance满满AO3同人文的感觉,但是居然觉得很辣,啊什么主线是计划抢劫和继承权之争?谁在乎?两个男主幼稚斗嘴然后大战三百回合然后再幼稚斗嘴不比抢劫好看吗【并不】不管是感情线还是主线都简单直白没有花花肠子,这章出现问题下章就解决的程度,有问题的人一眼看上去就有问题,还怀疑主角为啥那么久才看出来= =但确实非常适合心情不好的时候调剂一下,另外这个有声书的 narrator您真的辛苦了,向您致敬
LGBT 英国
Imogen, Obviously Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: Becky Albertalli Balzer + Bray 2023 - 5
With humor and insight, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship. <br /><br />Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she’s got the World’s Greatest Ally title locked down.<br /><br />She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting. She knows more about queer media discourse than her very queer little sister. She even has two queer best friends. There's Gretchen, a fellow high school senior, who helps keep Imogen's biases in check. And then there's Lili—newly out and newly thriving with a cool new squad of queer college friends.<br /><br />Imogen's thrilled for Lili. Any ally would be. And now that she's finally visiting Lili on campus, she's bringing her ally A game. Any support Lili needs, Imogen's all in.<br /><br />Even if that means bending the truth, just a little.<br /><br />Like when Lili drops a tiny queer bombshell: she's told all her college friends that Imogen and Lili used to date. And none of them know that Imogen is a raging hetero—not even Lili’s best friend, Tessa.<br /><br />Of course, the more time Imogen spends with chaotic, freckle-faced Tessa, the more she starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with. . .
2023年10月22日 已读
感情线非常普通,甚至有点俗,但讲真不太是重点,非常欣喜地读到了作者的两点很有意思又很罕见的讨论,一是双性恋在对不同的性别产生 crush时会有不同的感受,这实际上大概是包括我在内很多双性恋的真实体验,也是我认为很多双性恋区别于泛性恋的最大特征,但很少在遇到bi-rep的同时见到这么细致的讨论,可恰恰是这一点让双性恋本身就很模糊很摇摆的自我认知变得更加困难和自我怀疑;而是queercommunity里存在的严重的 gatekeeping现象,这一点在非单性恋群体身上体现得尤其明显,所以从一个自以为hopelessly straight多年的bisexual身上入手去讨论这一点变得顺理成章,其实很能理解 Gretchen的一些反应,但是以自己遇到的trauma去衡量别人的queerness着实不可取
LGBT YA 美国
Dear Medusa Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: Olivia A. Cole Labyrinth Road 2023 - 3
<b>This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving.</b><br /><br /><i>I'm starting to realize</i><br /><i>that a woman doesn't get that mad</i><br /><i>so mad that her hair turns to snakes</i><br /><i>so mad that her rage turns blood to boulder</i><br /><i>all on her own.</i><br /><br />Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the world around her, she's been cast, like the mythical Medusa, as not the victim but the monster of her own story: the slut who asked for it.<br /><br />Alicia was abandoned by her best friend, quit the track team, and now spends her days in detention feeling isolated and invisible. When mysterious letters left in her locker hint at another victim, Alicia struggles to keep up the walls she's built around her trauma. At the same time, her growing attraction to a new girl in school makes her question what those walls are really keeping out.<br /><br /><b>[This] fierce and brightly burning feminist roar...paints a devastating and haunting portrait of a vulnerable young woman discovering the power of her voice, her courage, and her rage. --Samira Ahmed, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Internment </i>and<i> Hollow Fires</i></b>
2023年11月8日 已读
Very intense,very powerful.用诗歌一样的形式讲述了 16岁的Alicia与性侵经历抗争的过程,语言非常有韵律感,但又如利刃一样尖锐、闪着寒光……前一半的阅读感是脆弱、挣扎和支离破碎,像带着无处发泄的愤怒和无穷无尽的自我怀疑慢慢滑向绝望和崩溃的深渊,好在 Alicia逐渐找到了黑暗中的点点光亮:彼此分享挣扎和苦难的好朋友、组织女性小组的老师、一眼洞察恶狼的母亲、努力把她拉回正轨的教练,还有那张写着Me too的字条....阅读感觉其实很emotional,但其中对结构性问题的讨论(包括性、性别、种族etc)理性且尖锐,有关Alicia受伤害到疗愈的过程也过渡得很好
LGBT YA 美国
怪物 (2023) 豆瓣 IMDb TMDB
怪物
8.0 (565 个评分) 导演: 是枝裕和 演员: 安藤樱 / 永山瑛太
其它标题: Monster / Kaibutsu
平静的湖畔小镇,疼爱儿子的单亲妈妈早织(安藤樱 饰)、为学生着想的爽直老师保利 (永山瑛太 饰)以及天真烂漫的孩子们本过着安稳的生活,却因为一次校园冲突,发酵酿成轩然大波,惹起社会与媒体的关注。当事态越见严重,竟在一个暴风雨的清晨,两个孩子双双失去了踪影……
2024年1月26日 看过
在3星和3.5之间徘徊了几秒还是决定3星吧……整个片子的感觉非常东亚,深陷东亚语境而无法脱离哪怕一点点,每一个人从自己的视角看都没有做错,甚至都是在为他人着想,然而为什么有那么多无法开解的误会,为什么每个人都在经历痛苦……因为每个人都没有嘴啊!无论是霸凌还是恐同都充满了东亚式的窒息感,而这些明显是系统性的问题,却在庞大系统的重压下变得支离破碎,对每个话题都说得浮光掠影令人奇痒难忍,意图是好的,叙事方式也是辅助内容的而非单纯的花活,然而第三个视角的时候始终觉得,性向困惑的主角设定为小学生是否有点……我非常不适啊
LGBT 剧情 日本
最幸福的季节 (2020) Eggplant.place TMDB 豆瓣
Happiest Season
6.4 (196 个评分) 导演: 克里·杜瓦尔 演员: 克里斯汀·斯图尔特 / 麦肯兹·戴维斯
其它标题: Happiest Season / 挛爱季节(港)
讲述一个年轻女子准备在家庭一年一度的假日聚会上向女友求婚,结果发现女友还未向保守的父母出柜。
2021年2月3日 看过
Emmmmm剧情略俗,然后有点把右翼变左翼想得太简单了吧……要是toxic parents做了几十年一下子能掰过来就不叫toxic parents了……不过这是喜剧片我原谅了,KK可真好看
LGBT 美国
平常的心 (2014) 豆瓣 TMDB
The Normal Heart
8.0 (309 个评分) 导演: 瑞恩·墨菲 演员: 马克·鲁弗洛 / 马特·波莫
其它标题: The Normal Heart / 平常心
1981年,艾滋作为一种前所未见的免疫系统缺陷疾病在纽约出现。由于它集中发生在男同性恋当中,所以在当时又被称为“同志病”。内德(马克·鲁弗洛 Mark Ruffalo 饰)是一个激进的同志作家,当他看着朋友纷纷死去以及政府的不作为时,义愤填膺的他发起了男同健康危机组织, 呼吁政府和社会公众对这场即将爆发的大瘟疫给予重视。半身瘫痪的女医生艾玛(朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)是少数从一开始就高度警惕艾滋疫情的的医护人员,也是内德重要的异性恋盟友。在运动中内德认识了纽约时报记者菲尼克斯(马修·波莫 Matt Bomer 饰),两人陷入如火如荼的热恋。然而菲尼克斯最终也被确诊感染,悲痛的内德惟有爱人和事业两线作战。健康危机组织的主席布鲁斯(泰勒·克奇 Taylor Kitsch 饰)虽然是内德最好的朋友,然而深柜的他行事风格与好斗的内德截然相反。执行董事汤米(吉姆·帕森斯 Jim Parsons 饰)一直试图平衡两人,却无法消弭越来越大的分歧,一场决裂迫在眉睫。而此刻已是艾滋在美国蔓延的第四个年头......
HBO电视电影《平常的心》改编自托尼奖同名戏剧,作者拉里·克莱默亲身经历了80年代的艾滋风暴,他以自己为原型,将纽约同性恋人群以及艾滋病人的生活和感悟写进剧本。电影不但描绘了早期艾滋运动的真实和复杂面貌,而且呈现了同志争取权益的曲折与必要性。无论身处怎样的时代和环境,去爱、去追求爱都应该与生俱来的权利。
2021年2月25日 看过
三星半吧,材料组织得有点干巴巴的,完成度不是很高……但是这个题材真的需要被更多地讨论……如果抛下歧视、抛下事不关己的态度,人类可以免除很多灾难
LGBT 同性 美国