Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez

6 reviews

mood_reading_maya's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

In my hunt for nonfiction that looks at the intersections between queerness and Latinidad, this was one of the books that I landed on during my library catalog search.

Gomez relays personal experiences as a child, teen, and young man navigating the world as a gay man. While there are moments of insightful reflection on themes of masculinity, machismo, in/visibility, and community, most of the essays contend with Gomez's struggle with internalized homophobia. I can appreciate this message, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. It's heavy on the personal anecdotes and storytelling and very light on the broader conclusions or reflections on what they meant for the queer & Latinx community. Just...a touch too surface level? The sections centered on Pulse Nightclub had the most depth.

The narration, done by the author, was really not for me. Lots of repeated lip smacking and breathy pauses after every other sentence forced me to break up my listening because it was distracting.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Gun violence and Hate crime

camilleberedjick's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Mass/school shootings

iamsammie27's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, and Terminal illness

lkyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Well-written memoir about difficult subjects. It was easier to read than I expected, given the subject matter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Homophobia

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexual content

ecn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

I went into this not knowing much and it was a huge jumpscare to have almost half of the book be about the author’s experience/relation to the Pulse shooting. What a heavy book in general and that being added in took 
me OUT (I read this at work - definitely don’t do that)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

hubes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Mass/school shootings