Gay blue book
Content warning: This review contains mentions of sexual violence.
"I contemplated whether I would write about you now that you are dead."
— George M. Johnson
It is the summer of I'm sitting on the eve of my childhood—which is the porch of my friend Melanie's house—wondering what we're going to act tonight. Maybe watch the Dallas Mavs vs. Miami Heat game. Maybe fantasize about sitting courtside at The Finals, but Melanie's dad said that'd only happen when the Mavs win tonight. Maybe communicate about church, since we'd just left there a couple hours ago. There was so much we could do; I didn't know this would be the house that holds my undoing. I didn't know this night would be devoid of my maybes.
Despite the memory of this day being buried for decades, it comes back to me vividly after reading George M. Johnson's provocative, yet necessary debut young adult book,All Boys Aren't Blue. This book covers many things, including Blackness, queerness, and coming-of-age in a nature that suppresses your presence. It also touches on a thing that plagues over 57, children in the United St
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Homo-sexual life
This is one of the “Little Navy Book” series. It is a small (75 page) piece with the first 2/3rds of the book loaded with Freudian psychoanalytical investigation of homosexuality. This Freudian assessment on the etiology of homosexuality has been demonstrably refuted by neuroscience over the last quarter century. Homosexuality is NOT a form of neurosis or caused by it.
The scribe uses the terms “perverse” and its variations in characterizing homosexuality, but not as a slur. He doesn’t condemn it as immoral, but many of those he cites considers it a medical condition brought about by the environment of the “invert”. There is no science here, though the storyteller intends it as such. The reader should consider this was written nearly years ago.
But the author states this: “Not only may a homosexual be a person of normal capability, but he may possess outstanding intellectual qualities and be distinguished by high cultural attainments.” He goes on to list people of eminence in history who were thought to be homosexual. The last third of the book notes the positive c
Soooooooo, this is an extremely unpopular opinion, but I didn’t appreciate Red, White & Royal Cobalt . This is a book that made me feel justified in not reading contemporary romance/NA fiction. I have partially gotten over myself. I do read adoration now, but this is still not a book that I enjoyed.
I don’t really need to give a plot summary, we all know the story, son of the president hates a prince of England because he’s actually in love with him without having even known that he might be queer and then they fall in cherish and have a lot of sex, but drama, but it’s ok because the world is progressive or something.
I’m not going to talk about every part of this book, but I am going to talk about some of the areas that I didn’t like and what made me particularly unhappy with the toxic behaviours that were being perpetuated by this novel. This isn’t to say that these issues are only seen in this book and in no other media. But RWRB is a recent piece of media that I have consumed with these issues, and I think we should talk about them. It is important to be critical of the med