4 Days Left To See Bonnie Huang’s LGBTQ+ Shrine Queering Sydney’s West

4 Days Left To See Bonnie Huang’s LGBTQ+ Shrine Queering Sydney’s West

For another four days, visitors to Westfield Parramatta can take a free look at non-binary artist Bonnie Huang’s (they/them) tribute to queer westies: Bonnie Huang: Dare to Dream. The installation, ... The post 4 Days Left To See Bonnie Huang’s LGBTQ+ Shrine Queering Sydney’s West appeared first on Star Observer.

How many of these classic queer books have you actually read?

Walk into any queer bookshop in any major city, or spend enough time in LGBTQ+ spaces online and you’ll notice the same titles coming up again and again. Some have been passed from one generation to the next. Others have exploded thanks to film adaptations, BookTok, or word of mouth. Together, they’ve become part of the queer canon. But here’s the question: How many of us have actually read all of them? There’s nothing wrong with knowing a book …

What's Next for LGBTQ Picture Books?

The first LGBTQ book I read was Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman, which I discovered on the shelves of my school library. I remember finishing the story and thinking, Huh. So that’s a thing you can do. It would be years before I realized that I was queer, but even before I knew, that book had carved away a little space in my brain for the person I would become: a glimmering possibility.   I’m one of the first generations to grow up with …