This Book Is Gay

By: Juno Dawson, David Levithan

Narrated by: Christopher Solimene

Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for you. There's a long-running joke that after "coming out", a lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership card and instruction manual. This is that instruction manual. You're welcome. In it you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask: from sex to politics and hooking up to stereotypes, coming out, and more. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality and what it's like to grow up LGBT also includes real stories from people across the gender and sexual spectrums. You will be entertained. You will be informed. But most importantly, you will know that however you identify (or don't) and whomever you love, you are exceptional. You matter. And so does this book.

©2015 James Dawson (P)2017 Tantor

Critic reviews

"[A] witty, no-holds-barred look at the LGBTQ experience.... An insightful option for those with questions about what it's like to be LGBTQ." (School Library Journal)

educational

helpful resource those seeking understanding of the lgbtq community. educational and essential read for beginning to understand this community

Everything!

Loved it! Want to read it again! Would highly recommend! Being gay isn’t a disability or disadvantage it’s a privilege!

A bit Dated

Published in 2017 and feels like author is more so pushing a hetro-normative way if life.

The whole bok was amazing

definitely recommend this book for anyone who does not understand the LGBT community and will saychapter's 1-6 was very helpful in understanding the community

content good, reader a little monotone

The content is great. Filled with statistics and surveyed anecdotes. I think probably the most amazing thing is that I'm 25 and this is the first sexual education I've probably ever had. My school had a policy of abstinence so we learned about STIs but we didn't learn anything about how sex works. So it was nice to finally have that and to have the gay version of that even if I've become a bit familiar at this point with personal experience. The reader has keeps the same rhythm the whole time so he's borderline monotone with little inflection. This becomes most pronounced during the anecdotes. Something they should have probably changed for the audiobook is to put the names before the anecdotes instead of after. With his steady cadence there's no pause or change of voice to let you know we've slipped from the author's voice into a story from one of the people surveyed for the book. Still though excellent content and worth a listen or read.