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Morgan Arthur, he / him, white, asexual, trans guy. fandom blog without any loyalty to a particular fandom, but so far Marvel / Fallout 4 / Dragon Age / Breath of the Wild / Detroit: Become Human have been pretty consistent
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QBdatabase.com

need more queer books in your life? mad at all the book bans? wish you could read books about people actually like you?

the Queer Books Database is a free, online searchable database that lists queer rep in over 2,500 fiction and 500 non-fiction books! you can filter by age, genre, year, and specific identity–including race, disability, mental illness, and neurodivergence

here’s some ideas of what you can search for:

  • a legal thriller featuring a bisexual transgender woman or a sci-fi with a disabled black gay man
  • Young Adult, Middle Grade, and Children’s books in both fiction and non-fiction titles
  • classic queer lit from 1872 to 1956 (Carmilla to Giovanni’s Room)
  • biographies of famous historical and modern activists, musicians, athletes, immigrants, and writers
  • supportive spiritual texts and guidance from community leaders (filter by fifteen different religions!)
  • representation for LGBT identities under the “plus,” characters of color, fat rep, neurodivergence, older characters, questioning and closeted characters, religious identity, disabled characters–and more!

check with your local library to find these titles or ask about Inter-Library Loans to grab one from a library nearby! this really helps support libraries, authors, and me, an autistic transgender librarian :)

#lgbt#lgbtqia#queer books#queer#bookblr#lgbt+#books#library
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QBdatabase.com

need more queer books in your life? mad at all the book bans? wish you could read books about people actually like you?

the Queer Books Database is a free, online searchable database that lists queer rep in over 2,500 fiction and 500 non-fiction books! you can filter by age, genre, year, and specific identity--including race, disability, mental illness, and neurodivergence

here’s some ideas of what you can search for:

  • a legal thriller featuring a bisexual transgender woman or a sci-fi with a disabled black gay man
  • Young Adult, Middle Grade, and Children’s books in both fiction and non-fiction titles
  • classic queer lit from 1872 to 1956 (Carmilla to Giovanni’s Room)
  • biographies of famous historical and modern activists, musicians, athletes, immigrants, and writers
  • supportive spiritual texts and guidance from community leaders (filter by fifteen different religions!)
  • representation for LGBT identities under the “plus,” characters of color, fat rep, neurodivergence, older characters, questioning and closeted characters, religious identity, disabled characters--and more!

check with your local library to find these titles or ask about Inter-Library Loans to grab one from a library nearby! this really helps support libraries, authors, and me, an autistic transgender librarian :)

#books#bookblr#book recs#queer#queer books#libraries#lgbt#lgbtqia
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I had a bad day at work so I made a reading list called Be Gay Do Crime to cheer myself up

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  • The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
  • two black female MCs; f/f relationship between 2 of the main 5 girls
  • badass fantasy / western blend where a group of sex workers kill a man, break out of the brothel, & fund their escape by robbing banks
  • Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
  • male and female bisexual MCs; lesbian MC; prominent gay male side character; prominent mlm trans male side character; Asian inspired world-building with each fantasy country based off of a different Asian country, written by a Filipino American author
  • fantasy / steampunk-esque where there’s trains and shit but also SWORDS and everyone gets an animal companion!! multiple POVs but they’re basically all doing crime (including the detectives) to get what they want, which is mainly to kill each other but it’s fun tho :)
  • Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
  • bisexual female MC
  • abused and traumatized girl decides to become an assassin to Avenge Her Father, helped by her demon-cat who eats her fear so she can be horrifically badass; includes footnotes
  • Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria
  • Cassa – female fantasy race PoC; Alys – female, plus-sized, asexual POC, has severe anxiety and panic attacks; Evander – male, bisexual PoC; Newt – gay male
  • ragtag found family group of rebels hits all the right tropes while overthrowing an oppressive government that relies on prophecies instead of common sense
  • The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson
  • Thia (MC) has depression; her best friend (prominent side character) is wlw; being gay is normalized in this world
  • princess sees her mother and all their fantasy crow friends (think horses but better) burned in an invasion but manages to secretly find and smuggle The Last Crow Egg which she’ll hatch and use to do magic / bring down the kingdom that invaded
  • The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen
  • straight female MC x bisexual male LI; gay male prominent side character; being gay / bisexual is normalized in this world
  • another ragtag found family, they dispose of dead bodies bc they can’t get the plague but that makes them Untouchable and ppl hate them even tho they’re necessary to society so this one Bitch is like nah fuck you pay me and semi-kidnaps a prince + starts revolution
  • Wilder Girls by Rory Power
  • Hetty is multiple-gender-attracted, but doesn’t use any specific label within the book; Reese is explicitly stated to be queer; they start an f/f relationship
  • fucking ZOMBIE shit, the whole island gets infected, including plants, animals, and the girls at the all girl school who are now sick as hell medically and badassery-wise while they try to survive; quarantined and fucked over by the government so I’m counting this as Crime
  • River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
  • MC is a Korean-British queer cowboy, fat side female character w/fluid gender presentation, non-binary character, Mexican-American female side character
  • OK so what if like, the wild west had HIPPOS instead of horses, that’d be badass right?? this book answers RIGHT! found family outlaws have to wrangle hippos and pull One Last Job also fuck the government
  • Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
  • genderfluid MC; bisexual (or possibly pan; no exact label given, just that she likes men, women, and Esteemed Others) female LI
  • what if you had to do the Hunger Games to try out to be an assassin? like bitches just swing on each other until there’s one left and that’s the State Assassin but this MC wants to use that assassin status to kill the nobility who left their people to die in a war
  • Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
  • MC is bisexual, half black / half Native American, and (arguably) a transgender man
  • so the MC kills a rich white man who tries to sexually assault him and turns out he was a vampire so now MC can see ALL the supernatural shit going on in the Wild West, and also he’s a cowboy
  • Kill Game by Cordelia Kingsbridge
  • gay, Jewish male MC x gay, Italian male MC; transgender male side character, although this isn’t confirmed until the second book
  • OK so the MC is actually a cop in this one, I’m sorry, but his LI is a bounty hunter and they get sucked into a cat/mouse game with a serial killer who only kills Bad People, it’s a super good interesting book and also there’s lots of hot gay sex scenes, read it trust me
  • Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace
  • bisexual female MC
  • this girl wakes up after being murdered and immediately kills the person digging her out of her grave, but he wasn’t the one who killed her (he just brought her back somehow) and now she has to go on a road trip to find who killed her, while also killing other killers along the way, like Dexter but much better
  • The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
  • lesbians MCs
  • lesbian *deep inhale* PIRATES!!! Lesbian A helps raise kaiju monsters that defend against pirates but the pirates now want their own kaiju monster so they kidnap her; Lesbian B is *not* the kidnapper, she was also pressed into service and can’t get out; there’s huge Monster Babeys
  • Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
  • MC is a bisexual woman and part of an Asian-coded fantasy race; LI is a lesbian
  • anti-hero mob enforcer MC is forced to track down and get on a ghost ship or the government will kill her little sister; ghost ship is badass and scary as hell, run by pirates who demand tributes in the form of more people, one of which is princess lesbian who helps MC become a slightly better person but still So Down For Murder
  • Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells
  • MC lost one of her eyes, f/f side relationship between two lesbian women, one of whom is trans and mute
  • this is actually the 2nd book bc the 1st book (Hunger Makes the Wolf) doesn’t yet reveal that side character is a lesbian, but the series is 10000% worth it
  • sci-fi / western on a mining planet, the MC is in a biker gang and has Witchy Powers, the mining co is fucking over the people, the government is skeevy as hell, so Biker Gang MC leads a rebellion, like real old timey union shit when we still drug rich people out of their homes at night and beat them in the streets, it’s great

here’s the link to the list I made with my library website that has 73 books and counting. I’ll update it with more books and descriptions for each book of what LGBT+ characters they have over the next few days

#books#bookblr#book reccs#lgbt#lgbtqia
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I had a bad day at work so I made a reading list called Be Gay Do Crime to cheer myself up

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thisiswhymomworries
  • The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
  • two black female MCs; f/f relationship between 2 of the main 5 girls
  • badass fantasy / western blend where a group of sex workers kill a man, break out of the brothel, & fund their escape by robbing banks
  • Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
  • male and female bisexual MCs; lesbian MC; prominent gay male side character; prominent mlm trans male side character; Asian inspired world-building with each fantasy country based off of a different Asian country, written by a Filipino American author
  • fantasy / steampunk-esque where there’s trains and shit but also SWORDS and everyone gets an animal companion!! multiple POVs but they’re basically all doing crime (including the detectives) to get what they want, which is mainly to kill each other but it’s fun tho :)
  • Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
  • bisexual female MC
  • abused and traumatized girl decides to become an assassin to Avenge Her Father, helped by her demon-cat who eats her fear so she can be horrifically badass; includes footnotes
  • Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria
  • Cassa -- female fantasy race PoC; Alys -- female, plus-sized, asexual POC, has severe anxiety and panic attacks; Evander -- male, bisexual PoC; Newt -- gay male
  • ragtag found family group of rebels hits all the right tropes while overthrowing an oppressive government that relies on prophecies instead of common sense
  • The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson
  • Thia (MC) has depression; her best friend (prominent side character) is wlw; being gay is normalized in this world
  • princess sees her mother and all their fantasy crow friends (think horses but better) burned in an invasion but manages to secretly find and smuggle The Last Crow Egg which she’ll hatch and use to do magic / bring down the kingdom that invaded
  • The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen
  • straight female MC x bisexual male LI; gay male prominent side character; being gay / bisexual is normalized in this world
  • another ragtag found family, they dispose of dead bodies bc they can’t get the plague but that makes them Untouchable and ppl hate them even tho they’re necessary to society so this one Bitch is like nah fuck you pay me and semi-kidnaps a prince + starts revolution
  • Wilder Girls by Rory Power
  • Hetty is multiple-gender-attracted, but doesn't use any specific label within the book; Reese is explicitly stated to be queer; they start an f/f relationship
  • fucking ZOMBIE shit, the whole island gets infected, including plants, animals, and the girls at the all girl school who are now sick as hell medically and badassery-wise while they try to survive; quarantined and fucked over by the government so I’m counting this as Crime
  • River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
  • MC is a Korean-British queer cowboy, fat side female character w/fluid gender presentation, non-binary character, Mexican-American female side character
  • OK so what if like, the wild west had HIPPOS instead of horses, that’d be badass right?? this book answers RIGHT! found family outlaws have to wrangle hippos and pull One Last Job also fuck the government
  • Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
  • genderfluid MC; bisexual (or possibly pan; no exact label given, just that she likes men, women, and Esteemed Others) female LI
  • what if you had to do the Hunger Games to try out to be an assassin? like bitches just swing on each other until there’s one left and that’s the State Assassin but this MC wants to use that assassin status to kill the nobility who left their people to die in a war
  • Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
  • MC is bisexual, half black / half Native American, and (arguably) a transgender man
  • so the MC kills a rich white man who tries to sexually assault him and turns out he was a vampire so now MC can see ALL the supernatural shit going on in the Wild West, and also he’s a cowboy
  • Kill Game by Cordelia Kingsbridge
  • gay, Jewish male MC x gay, Italian male MC; transgender male side character, although this isn't confirmed until the second book
  • OK so the MC is actually a cop in this one, I’m sorry, but his LI is a bounty hunter and they get sucked into a cat/mouse game with a serial killer who only kills Bad People, it’s a super good interesting book and also there’s lots of hot gay sex scenes, read it trust me
  • Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace
  • bisexual female MC
  • this girl wakes up after being murdered and immediately kills the person digging her out of her grave, but he wasn’t the one who killed her (he just brought her back somehow) and now she has to go on a road trip to find who killed her, while also killing other killers along the way, like Dexter but much better
  • The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
  • lesbians MCs
  • lesbian *deep inhale* PIRATES!!! Lesbian A helps raise kaiju monsters that defend against pirates but the pirates now want their own kaiju monster so they kidnap her; Lesbian B is *not* the kidnapper, she was also pressed into service and can’t get out; there’s huge Monster Babeys
  • Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
  • MC is a bisexual woman and part of an Asian-coded fantasy race; LI is a lesbian
  • anti-hero mob enforcer MC is forced to track down and get on a ghost ship or the government will kill her little sister; ghost ship is badass and scary as hell, run by pirates who demand tributes in the form of more people, one of which is princess lesbian who helps MC become a slightly better person but still So Down For Murder
  • Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells
  • MC lost one of her eyes, f/f side relationship between two lesbian women, one of whom is trans and mute
  • this is actually the 2nd book bc the 1st book (Hunger Makes the Wolf) doesn’t yet reveal that side character is a lesbian, but the series is 10000% worth it
  • sci-fi / western on a mining planet, the MC is in a biker gang and has Witchy Powers, the mining co is fucking over the people, the government is skeevy as hell, so Biker Gang MC leads a rebellion, like real old timey union shit when we still drug rich people out of their homes at night and beat them in the streets, it’s great

here’s the link to the list I made with my library website that has 73 books and counting. I’ll update it with more books and descriptions for each book of what LGBT+ characters they have over the next few days

#bookblr#books#book reccs#lgbt#lgbtqia#if you look through the Lists I've made on that account#Arthur_Of_Camelot#you can find more lists that break down books by individual LGBTQIA characters!#so there's a list for asexual/aromantic characters#for bi/pan characters#transgender characters and gay characters and lesbian characters#everything basically#and on the other hand I also have lists by genre#although those don't yet have descriptions stating the LGBT+ identities#but 90% of them DO have queer characters#I just haven't added those notes yet
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a cute girl at the bank said she loved my trans button and it took me five tries to write the number one hundred and ninety-eight because I could think of it as words but I forgot how to write the numbers and kept putting 918 so if someone could pls start a gofundme for my funeral

#gay#lgbt#lgbt+#personal#storytime
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reblog if u ARE the new librarian, u SUPPORT the new librarian, or u want OLD PEOPLE to get OFF FACEBOOK

#lgbt#lgbt+#gay#lgbtqa#guess who's the new librarian u guys :))))#pls reblog to support me because I have had a Day#there were also 20 comments worth of#*it's not about orientation it's that this is ADULT CONTENT*#these books are PORNOGRAPHY!!#you need to put this in the ADULT section#what will I tell my CHIIIIIILDREEEEEENNNNNNNNN#like the book title already explains it all#all u gotta do is say those words right there#it's two boys kissing#wow#who knew it was so simple THIS WHOLE TIME
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ALSO!

if anyone in the central, OKC Oklahoma area is scared right now and needs some sort of real life support, the library in Guthrie, OK at 201 N Division St will be a semi-safe place. all the staff are trans and LGBT friendly, we have positive LBGT informational pamphlets in the teen section, the bathroom is gender neutral, and our director is a black woman who Gets Shit Done

you can come in and hang out all day, we have two small study rooms with doors you can close if you need your space, and there’s free donuts on Saturdays. we also have free wifi, computers you can use without a library card, and we’re a poke stop. we have a copy of the Quran in our reference section; I don’t know about Jewish texts

Guthrie is about ten miles north of Oklahoma City, off of I-35. we are a small southern town, so be aware of that if you decide to visit, but the library itself should be safe as our director doesn’t tolerate any shit At All. the library is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9 am to 6 pm, Tuesday and Thursday 9 am to 8 pm, and Saturday 9 am to 1 pm. our phone number is (405) 282 - 0050

please stay safe everyone!

#positivity#safe space#lgbt#support
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how the fuck u sound

 “asexuality isn’t a REAL orientation, it’s the ~lack~ of one”

white isn’t a REAL color, it’s the ~lack~ of one

zero isn’t a REAL number, it’s the ~lack~ of one

water isn’t a REAL drink, it’s the ~lack~ of a flavored beverage uwu sweetie :)

#acephobia#asexual#ace#lgbt#lgbtqa
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@ people in need of binders

Packer Locker is a free binder donation program.

You sign up and you wait weeks, or months, for you to be matched with a binder.

But recently, they released a homemade/custom binders program in addition to their donation program.

For just $5, you can have a custom binder made and shipped for you!! While free shipping is a US only option, it’s still a great option for those who cannot afford to pay up to $100 for a binder with shipping.

I’m yet to order one, but I thought that I would help spread the word.

#binders#lgbt resource#lgbt
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It is shameful that the leading role that transwomen and drag queens played in the Stonewall riots is being written out of the upcoming Stonewall feature film - but I’m disappointed to have seen nothing in the boycott campaign referencing the erasure of Storme DeLarverie, a biracial butch lesbian and drag king, who THREW THE FIRST PUNCH AT A COP, and as she was being dragged into the police van, turned to the passive crowd outside Stonewall and shouted “WHY DON’T YOU GUYS DO SOMETHING?”, which reports say sparked the crowd to fight back. Bricks were only thrown through the bar window after her arrest.

She was a major leader of the riots, if not the ignition.

Trans women and drag queens are being written out of the film, but Storme and lesbian history is being written out of the boycott campaign as well.

#stonewall movie#stonewall boycott#Storme DeLarverie#lesbian representation#lgbt
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