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rychelereads's review
3.0
Fun and snarky book that reads like a conversation. It's a very dip your toe into recognizing that the queer community are people too and they just wanna live situation. If you don't already think that, or if you just want a book that says the queer or queer questioning experience is normal and don't worry about that, this is the book for you.
joan_anne's review
2.0
Listened to on audio, read by author. Reading banned books is important to me.
kaikai1618's review against another edition
3.0
This book was had a very good and light hearted narrative and was very good at being informative. The only issue I had was the lack of representation for other sexualities. There was this one line saying that "all of us wanna have lots of sex" but I couldn't help but think of asexuals.
When you look at the book as a whole it was still a very good book. It explained a lot about different parts of LGBT+ life and covered a lot. I learned more, but I didn't feel represented. I mean I didn't expect my sexuality to be in there but there was barley anything on bisexuals or asexuals which I thought would be included. I thought there should have been more on pansexuality and asexuality. If you wanted to learn more about them then this is not the book to find it. I think that this book doesn't go too much into bisexuality either.
In truth though this book wasn't perfect but it did have good voice and was good considering that it can be hard to not have lines offending people because specific things were left out. This person was obviously not trying to underrepresent or degrade any person. So I'm not gonna be too picky about it I just wish I could find a good book about the underrepresented sexualities because I want to learn more about them and from personal narratives of people.
In general though this book was informative and pretty fun to listen to (audiobook) just don't expect too much. Go in knowing it will be informative and accepting but doesn't represent everything. It's more simplified because these topics are anything but simple.
When you look at the book as a whole it was still a very good book. It explained a lot about different parts of LGBT+ life and covered a lot. I learned more, but I didn't feel represented. I mean I didn't expect my sexuality to be in there but there was barley anything on bisexuals or asexuals which I thought would be included. I thought there should have been more on pansexuality and asexuality. If you wanted to learn more about them then this is not the book to find it. I think that this book doesn't go too much into bisexuality either.
In truth though this book wasn't perfect but it did have good voice and was good considering that it can be hard to not have lines offending people because specific things were left out. This person was obviously not trying to underrepresent or degrade any person. So I'm not gonna be too picky about it I just wish I could find a good book about the underrepresented sexualities because I want to learn more about them and from personal narratives of people.
In general though this book was informative and pretty fun to listen to (audiobook) just don't expect too much. Go in knowing it will be informative and accepting but doesn't represent everything. It's more simplified because these topics are anything but simple.
searobin's review against another edition
I am too old, and have been Queer for too long. This could be useful for baby queers, but it's also very outdated. I only got about 1/10th of the way through, but the number of times "men and women" only are mentioned, and the exclusively binary definitions included in the trans definitions 101 bit were frustrating. I also didn't make the assumption that the title was a play on the pejorative use of "X is gay", but unfortunately it is.
The queer teens of today need something better than this, and frankly, those of 10 years ago too.
The queer teens of today need something better than this, and frankly, those of 10 years ago too.
graveyardpansy's review against another edition
1.0
if i, as a sensitivity reader, was given this book to review, i would simply tell them to throw it away
aileenfox20's review
4.0
A bit disappointed on the woman and woman $ex i didnt really learn as much as I would have wanted to I feel like Juno wrote the gay men one perfectly but her friend missed a few things
lifesarosch's review against another edition
3.5
Extremely basic, but I can get why it'd be affirming for teens. Republicans really be trying to make anything that says to treat other people nicely illegal huh?