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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
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tense
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I think this book should be taught in schools. Teaching this memoir would be a powerful experience because it opens up discussions on queer and race histories that are absent from our curriculum. I read it, almost angrily, at the amount of court cases and politics I had no clue happened. Granted, a lot of the story is dated before I was even born, but as a lesbian, it feels neglectful that I don’t know half of the famous stories of the gay people that faught before me. I felt so deeply for the story of the two friends who were not only accused of having $ex by the police, but then agreed to start a legal battle against their rights AS A COUPLE, when they both had boyfriends, but there was a loophole to fight the case and they agreed. It’s crazy, reading up on such recent history, and is a reminder of how shockingly recent are rights have been. It’s a raw, historical memoir. Jeremy, the main character, describes his lover throughout the book so beautifully, and so honest, it was like they were one. When realising his love for Marcos, Jeremy describes the fear as a gay man, “while it can feel safe inside a household of our own making, there is always the threat of invasion…and the terror of having made a thing worth protecting” which isn’t that just a beautiful way of describing their love. It was outside the law, but full, and real, “it was infuriating to think I could adore you to no level that would satisfy the law”. The lovers actually spent many years apart, Jeremy living in the gay capital, San Francisco, and Marcos being in the UK, and I felt lovesick just reading it. I loved the ending, the grief of Marco’s mother and the final line of the book has my heart, “it doesn’t make a difference, you said, no one cares about the words”. UGHHH.
emotional
informative
inspiring
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Wow, now I know what made the gayest love story ever!!!! It took bravery, courage, and the will to fight for it.
The book is so informative about LGBTQIA+ long and struggling history, about how gay marriage was legalized, it was a battle people are fighting, to prove their existence, to have the right to live. People are still fighting for this right till this day, it was sad but beautiful, making me hopeful somehow. I love how the book intertwine the gay marriage issues with immigration law. When you are gay or when you are an immigrant, you are an allien, at home but far away from home, be there not belong there. And when you are both, you are nothing. I adore the way this book address this self-identity crisis, and I think, when you are a part of minority, you should regard every other minority group as well. There are many minority groups who were oppressed by the legal systems: the LGBTQIA+ community, the immigrants, the mentally-ill people, the people who need healthcare,... We need to unite, to fix the system, to help each others to survive.
The book is beautiful, both historicallly and memorically. It made me feel nostalgia even though when things in the book happened, I was barely a child. It captures the queer culture vividly and uniquely. Even when I found it so hard to keep reading because all the law-related terms are so difficult so digest (this book took me so long to read), I still feel happy and satisfied to catch the glimpse of this gorgeous queer story.
Embrace queer joy and queer sorrows!!!!
The book is so informative about LGBTQIA+ long and struggling history, about how gay marriage was legalized, it was a battle people are fighting, to prove their existence, to have the right to live. People are still fighting for this right till this day, it was sad but beautiful, making me hopeful somehow. I love how the book intertwine the gay marriage issues with immigration law. When you are gay or when you are an immigrant, you are an allien, at home but far away from home, be there not belong there. And when you are both, you are nothing. I adore the way this book address this self-identity crisis, and I think, when you are a part of minority, you should regard every other minority group as well. There are many minority groups who were oppressed by the legal systems: the LGBTQIA+ community, the immigrants, the mentally-ill people, the people who need healthcare,... We need to unite, to fix the system, to help each others to survive.
The book is beautiful, both historicallly and memorically. It made me feel nostalgia even though when things in the book happened, I was barely a child. It captures the queer culture vividly and uniquely. Even when I found it so hard to keep reading because all the law-related terms are so difficult so digest (this book took me so long to read), I still feel happy and satisfied to catch the glimpse of this gorgeous queer story.
Embrace queer joy and queer sorrows!!!!
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
challenging
emotional
funny
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medium-paced
informative
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slow-paced
so admittedly i did read this as one of the goodreads challenges and because i couldn’t decide which one to read, i put it into a random wheel spinner so the fates decided!
but i am glad it did! i dont think i would have read/listened to this book if something else hadn’t decided for me. and it’s not because i didn’t want too; i just didn’t have much interest in American history (admittedly i still don’t) that being said, i learned so much from this book. i had no idea how back and forth the LGBTQIA+ community had to go through in American politics. it sounds naive i know but ive never stopped to think about what happened before i was born (Jeremy and his partner met the year i was born) so to hear about all of the different stories/history from not even 30 years ago was insane. there were many a tragic story included and interwoven with the story of Jeremy and ‘Famous’, which i wish we did have more of. Don’t get me wrong, i was fascinated by the history but i would have liked to hear abit more about their love story (particularly as the title was “The Gayest Love Story Ever Told”).
I’m glad I listened to the audio of this, as I loved hearing the passion of Jeremy’s storytelling throughout. You could tell that this topic meant a lot to him and this story was itching to be told. He had a way with phrases and words, they were quite poetic and his voice almost have a musical tone to it. i thoroughly enjoyed listening to it.
i’ve rated it 3 stars because whilst for the most part, i did enjoy it, there were days when i pushed myself through trying to listen to it because at points it was a it of a slog. although i learned a lot and ive taken something away from this book, i think it was a bit too intelligent for me
but i am glad it did! i dont think i would have read/listened to this book if something else hadn’t decided for me. and it’s not because i didn’t want too; i just didn’t have much interest in American history (admittedly i still don’t) that being said, i learned so much from this book. i had no idea how back and forth the LGBTQIA+ community had to go through in American politics. it sounds naive i know but ive never stopped to think about what happened before i was born (Jeremy and his partner met the year i was born) so to hear about all of the different stories/history from not even 30 years ago was insane. there were many a tragic story included and interwoven with the story of Jeremy and ‘Famous’, which i wish we did have more of. Don’t get me wrong, i was fascinated by the history but i would have liked to hear abit more about their love story (particularly as the title was “The Gayest Love Story Ever Told”).
I’m glad I listened to the audio of this, as I loved hearing the passion of Jeremy’s storytelling throughout. You could tell that this topic meant a lot to him and this story was itching to be told. He had a way with phrases and words, they were quite poetic and his voice almost have a musical tone to it. i thoroughly enjoyed listening to it.
i’ve rated it 3 stars because whilst for the most part, i did enjoy it, there were days when i pushed myself through trying to listen to it because at points it was a it of a slog. although i learned a lot and ive taken something away from this book, i think it was a bit too intelligent for me
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content
Moderate: Death
Just couldn’t get into it. I really wanted to love it but I didn’t.