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A review by entamewitchlulu
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
3.0
I can tell by reading this that this was a very important book for its time, but reading it from the future, I can also tell I've been really spoiled when it comes to queer lit.
Most of the stories in here are far too short to truly develop any characters or plots, making them somewhat unsatisfying, which is a problem I have with a lot of anthologies from this era (or anthologies in general, to be honest...finding a really good one that I really enjoy is very hard for me).
It's great to see how far we've come nowadays with queer literature, so for history's sake I think this is worth giving a read. Fair warning, though, is is rife with slurs, and in the first story alone there is a "fairy godfather" character who became a fairy godfather because he was murdered in a gay hate crime, so beware of potentially triggering topics.
Most of the stories in here are far too short to truly develop any characters or plots, making them somewhat unsatisfying, which is a problem I have with a lot of anthologies from this era (or anthologies in general, to be honest...finding a really good one that I really enjoy is very hard for me).
It's great to see how far we've come nowadays with queer literature, so for history's sake I think this is worth giving a read. Fair warning, though, is is rife with slurs, and in the first story alone there is a "fairy godfather" character who became a fairy godfather because he was murdered in a gay hate crime, so beware of potentially triggering topics.