Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

577 reviews

klutzy347's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Self harm and Sexual assault

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

renee0549's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative tense medium-paced

3.0

Not terrible, but hard to keep track of what was happening and when. The story is not in chronological order so it jumps around from drastically different areas of Page’s life. A little confusing, but still a trans story that we need.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Self harm, and Transphobia

bookishnanna's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia

hellokira's review against another edition

adventurous

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Eating disorder, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Rape

Minor: Bullying

marmaladereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

This book is... ooof.

I love Elliott Page's work and I love him no less for having read this book, but I probably would not recommend this to other queer readers. This is an incredibly difficult, depressing, and mostly tragic story of mental illness struggle, how cruel society is towards queer and trans people, and a first hand account of why trans people have such a high rate of mental illness and suicide. 

There is an incredible amount of explicit, graphic on page homophobia, transphobia, and abuse in this book.

It's highly relatable, well written, and feels incredibly true, but also made me feel sad and scared about the state of the world, and I have quite enough of that in my life already, tyvm.

Do check the content warnings before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Transphobia, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Sexual content, Hate crime, and Body shaming

miekss's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.0

I had a different anticipation for this book than the content actually described. 

I really didn’t like his writing style as the event order of this book wasn’t linear which is fine but it wasn’t clear when we had gone back in time or fast forwarded to future. 

I also thought that the contents of this memoir did not live up to the hype for me as majority of chapters just covered who they’d been in romantic/sexual relationships with and that they’d ended mostly because

someone was closeted / fear of being publicly out

which could’ve been covered in a third of the book to move onto other themes. 

I was shocked at the quantity and severity of verbal threats he endured growing up as someone suspected of being gay and then out as gay. This was really sad and hard to read. He didn’t go much into how this affected him emotionally or what he did to move through some of these events which would definitely shake you up. 

I also wanted more insight into their process for top-surgery and mentioning of being on T in more depth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Stalking, and Homophobia

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

laughingrecord's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Misogyny, Bullying, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

Moderate: Blood

badbadwolf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual content, Medical content, Dysphoria, Bullying, Homophobia, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Sexual harassment

clarelou07's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

• The chapters feel like short stories, scattered throughout Elliot's life
• There is a lot about sex and relationships (which makes sense given Page's coming out as gay paving the way to be himself). However, there are some sex scenes from their younger years which read as sexual abuse. Beware if this is a trigger.
• As a Southern queer nonbinary person, Elliot's reflection on sexuality and gender was refreshing to read. I wish the world were kinder to exploration like this, and I'm happy Page exists publicly to share his story.
• While wanting to love this, the book was okay for me. I'm generally not a memoir person, but wanted to give this a shot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Car accident, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Addiction, Drug use, Medical content, Mental illness, Bullying, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Self harm, Stalking, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Suicidal thoughts