Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

3 reviews

oisinthewizard's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

As a gay trans man, this was a somewhat difficult read and showed me a gap in masculine experiences as shaped by sexuality and performance. While I found McGee's experiences almost entirely unrelatable, his writing is self reflective and offers insight into the pressures to perform a strictly heterosexual masculinity.

I was made deeply uncomfortable by the use of anti-gay male slurs and with the author's approach to the casual use of such slurs in all-male settings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Homophobia

Moderate: Cancer and Misogyny

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Sexism, Transphobia, Medical content, Blood, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Incest, Racism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Mass/school shootings, Pedophilia, Addiction, and Drug abuse

queertrash's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, Outing, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts