Here’s an honest take on blogging. I was going to do a list of LGBTI+ movies, but have I watched the ones I did last year? The answer is no, and I’m running out of ideas for LGBTI+ content, so yes, there is a chance I will switch to random content, but for now, here’s the Pride Flag Book Tag. The creator was Connom Spence. I’m pretty annoyed at WordPress since I couldn’t even copy the questions from my own post, but in the end, I found the questions on Annalisa’s Library channel.
Red (Life) – A book with a spirited protagonist totally proud of who they are. Someone who gives you LIFE!
Okay, I read this one today, and I love Evie because not only did she stand up for herself, but she did so for her sister, too, who couldn’t.
Goodreads Blurb:
Eleven-year-old Evie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant sister away to stay with a distant great-aunt. All Evie wants is for her older sister to come back. But when her parents forbid her to even speak to Cilla, she starts sending letters. Evie writes letters about her family, torn apart and hurting. She writes about her life, empty without Cilla. And she writes about the new girl in school, June, who becomes her friend, and then maybe more than a friend.
As she becomes better friends with June, Evie begins to question her sexual orientation. She can only imagine what might happen if her parents found out who she really is. She could really use some advice from Cilla. But Cilla isn’t writing back.
Orange (Healing) – A book that made you, as the reader, find a deeper meaning or catharsis in your own life.
Going against the flow of society isn’t easy.
Goodreads Blurb:
Life isn’t easy on twelve-year-old Mars. As if seventh grade isn’t hard enough, Mars is also grappling with the recent death of their father and a realization they never got to share with him: they’re nonbinary. But with their skates laced up and the ice under their feet, all of those struggles melt away. When Mars’ triple toe loop draws the attention of a high school hot shot, he dares them to skate as a boy so the two can compete head-to-head. Unable to back down from a challenge, Mars accepts. But as competition draws near, the struggles of life off the rink start to complicate their performance in the rink, and Mars begins to second guess if there’s a place for them on the ice at all.
Yellow (Sunshine) – A book that fills you with so much joy it could brighten even your darkest day.
Thank God, I went to look for this book for this question because I hadn’t marked it on Goodreads, even though I really liked it.
Amazon Blurb:
When aspiring filmmaker Winter Monroe arrives at Crossroads Diner to document love stories, she expects to find romance—just not her own. Gray Aldridge, a brilliant but wounded war photographer, has sworn off both her camera and human connection. But late-night conversations over coffee awaken something neither woman expected. As Winter captures the diner’s legacy of love on film, Gray must decide if she’s brave enough to heal. In this stunning series finale, two artists discover that the most powerful story they’ll ever tell is their own—if trauma, age difference, and fear don’t tear them apart first.
Green (Nature) – A book that is set out of this world — a reality different to our own.
I can’t even start to imagine how it feels to learn that you were forced to live in a gender that isn’t yours on purpose.
Goodreads Blurb:
When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, “You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain’t what you was supposed to be. So, from now on, you gon’ be a boy. It’ll be a little strange at first, but you’ll get used to it, and this’ll be over after while.”
From this point forward, Perfect’s life becomes a bizarre kaleidoscope of events—while the rest of his family is forced to question everything they thought they knew about gender, sexuality, unconditional love, and fulfillment.
Blue (Peace) – A book where one of the characters finds peace with a difficult truth.
This is my second-favourite series by Eva Lovelle.
Goodreads Blurb:
Judith Rosenberg, a 71-year-old retired judge, is drowning in grief six months after losing her wife of twenty-five years. When Maya Aldridge—the hospice nurse who cared for Rachel in her final weeks—checks in on her, an unexpected connection ignites between them.
As Jude navigates the guilt of loving again, Maya confronts a truth she’s hidden for sixty-three she’s never been with a woman, but she’s finally ready to claim her desire. Together, they discover that the heart is vast enough for both grief and joy, that it’s never too late to become yourself, and that loving after loss isn’t a betrayal—it’s the most profound way to honor what came before.
Purple (Spirit) – A book that deals with LGBT+ themes and religion.
I read this yesterday, well, I finished yesterday, but I still had a hard time coming up with an answer for this question. What should that tell me?
Goodreads Blurb:
Waiting for the Call takes readers from the foothills of the Appalachians—where Jacqueline Taylor was brought up in a strict evangelical household—to contemporary Chicago, where she and her lesbian partner are raising a family. In a voice by turns comic and loving, Taylor recounts the amazing journey that took her in profoundly different directions from those she or her parents could have ever envisioned.
Taylor’s father was a Southern Baptist preacher, and she struggled to deal with his strictures as well as her mother’s manic-depressive episodes. After leaving for college, Taylor finds herself questioning her faith and identity, questions that continue to mount when—after two divorces, a doctoral degree, and her first kiss with a woman—she discovers her own lesbianism and begins a most untraditional family that grows to include two adopted children from Peru.
Even as she celebrates and cherishes this new family, Taylor insists on the possibility of maintaining a loving connection to her religious roots. While she and her partner search for the best way to explain adoption to their children and answer the inevitable question, “Which one is your mom?” they also seek out a church that will unite their love of family and their faith. Told in the great storytelling tradition of the American South, full of deep feeling and wry humor, Waiting for the Call engagingly demonstrates how one woman bridged the gulf between faith and sexual identity without abandoning her principles.
I wanted to do a question about brown and black, but I’m scared of being judged.
I’m tagging some people I follow, but don’t feel pressured to do it, though:
I picked them at random from my emails
Alex