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Queerly Loving

(Queerly Loving #1)

Teresa Theophano (Goodreads Author),

G. Benson (Goodreads Author) (Editor),

Astrid Ohletz (Editor),

A.P. Raymond (Goodreads Author),

Carolyn Gage,

E.H. Timms,

Evelyn Deshane,

Kay C. Sulli,

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3.86 · Rating details · 97 ratings · 37 reviews

Queer characters getting their happy endings abound in this first book of a two-part collection. Discover pages upon pages of compelling stories about aromantic warriors, trans sorceresses, and modern-day LGBTQA+ quirky characters. Friendship, platonic love, and poly triads are all celebrated.

Lose yourself in masterfully woven tales wrapped in fantasy and magic, delve into ...more

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Published November 22nd 2017 by Queer Pack

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Feb 01, 2018 Shan( Shans_Shelves) 💜 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: diverse-reads, lgbtqiapd-plus-young-adult, qf, queer-reads, q-protagonist, qm, sapphic-rep

Review Update.
Review also on my blog

Miss me with that gay shit By Sacha Lamb
TW: None.
Rep: Trans Boy MC, Queer side character, POC MC, POC side characters, Muslim & Jewish characters, m/m romance.

This was a sweet story about a trans boy named Elijah and his on crush on Nik. A guy he doesn’t want to be crushing on. I really enjoyed this story and it was a perfect start to the novel. Elijah was a funny MC and I loved the relationship he had with his twin sister, who also had a girlfriend.

4/5 Sta ...more

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Feb 11, 2018 Tara rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: ff, bisexual, reviewed-at-lambda, read-in-2018, mm, short-stories, queer-pack

Queerly Loving (Volume 1) is a short story collection that gives happy endings to a range of LGBTQA+ characters, by authors who themselves are from across the LGBTQA+ spectrum. The nine stories are so varied in style and content that there is sure to be something for everyone. Want to read a fluffy contemporary YA story with a Jewish trans boy and his crush? It’s in there and it’s called “Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don’t)” by Sacha Lamb. How about a science fiction story with lesbians, n ...more

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Oct 23, 2017 Shira Glassman added it · (Review from the author) · review of another edition

I can't review since I'm in it, but I wanted you to know HOW AMAZING Sacha Lamb's story is!!!! ...more

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Mar 04, 2018 Alex rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbt-main, g-classic-fantasy, read-in-2018, g-contemporary-realistic, rated-4-stars

Read on my blog.

Number of stories: 9
LGBQAI+: Every story has LGBTQAI+ main characters of various orientations, including trans women, gay trans men, aromantic partners, nonbinary characters, etc.
Sex on page: Yes, in certain stories

I knew this anthology couldn’t be bad when it started with Sacha Lamb, and I was right. I ended up loving every single story except one (more on that below) and I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this anthology. I loved the diverse identities and even ge ...more

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Dec 03, 2017 blauschrift rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-cis-male-authors

I have never read a story that covers ace people and there are more "i have never read ..." phrases I could drop about "QUEERLY LOVING" all of which made me very happy to now have had.

Since it is a collection of very varied writers there were two stories I skipped that did not work for me. BUT the three I loved most need to be mentioned here: "Miss me with that gay shit" >> tonality, humour and light-heartedness, Sacha Lamb - you rock! "Dragons Do Not" >> a protagonist getting the gender + pron ...more

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Dec 11, 2017 Carlotta rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Stories as diverse as cover suggests

The stories in this collection are as diverse as the cover, which I absolutely love, promises. And, unlike many recent TV shows with queer representation, all the stories do the queer (and non-queer) characters justice, and not just kill them off.
I am usually not a big fan of reading anthologies as I prefer full-length novels that go a bit ‘deeper’ than short stories, but I loved this collection. The stories cover such a wide range of queer identities and top ...more

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Nov 05, 2017 BadassCmd rated it it was amazing

Shelves: queer, ylva-books

This anthology is really something I haven't read like this before. It's special.

It contains a bunch of stories that are very different from another.
You have magic and dragons, you have teen crushes, you have veteran pilots, you have knighthood.
The characters represent many different identities of the queer spectrum - which I already really love - but they are also diverse in backround and religion and age and ability.
And of course, I appreciate feeling like everyone can get their happy ending.

T ...more

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Dec 28, 2018 Aleksandra rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017-releases

mathematically calculated rating: 3.66

This was a good anthology, featuring great variety of different genres and different characters. I appreciated that so many stories had trans characters, there are aromantic characters and polyamorous characters. In my experience, too many queer/lgbtq+ anthologies tend to center around cis white gay men, so the variety is much appreciated.

However, I made a mistake of picking this book to read at the end of the year. I feel this restlessness every time in lat ...more

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Feb 11, 2018 Cameron Sant rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: speculative-fiction, real-world-fiction, lgbqa, transgender, young-adult

I did yet another unbiased-but-actually-biased livetweet review! Here it is, pasted in its glory:

"MISS ME WITH THAT GAY SHIT (PLEASE DON'T)" by Sacha Lamb
15 deadpan texts/10 wrinkly aliens

"GIFTS OF SPRING" by Shira Glassman
15 throwing knives/10 magic spells

"WISHING ON THE PERSEID" by Kay C. Sulli
15 shooting stars/10 white-assed elks

"HUNT AND PECK" by Teresa Theophano
15 Guns and Roses cassettes/10 typing competitions

"FIRST LIGHT AT DAWN" by Nyri Bakkalian
15 bagels/10 Air Force helicopters

"DRAG ...more

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Feb 10, 2018 Lexxi Kitty marked it as did-not-finish · review of another edition

Shelves: format-short-story-collection, heterosexual, genre-fantasy, sexually-explicit, dnf-2019

Another short story collection begun, will I finish this one?

This is a collection I bought, for free, then started reading without stopping first to see what it was about. I expected, at the very least, that the stories would be LGBT related. I didn't read enough of the first to tell if it was - I read enough to see a young woman commenting, seemingly with arousal, about how her male friend was just so gosh darn handsome now. Once I read that I skipped to the next story. To encounter . . . grap Another short story collection begun, will I finish this one?

This is a collection I bought, for free, then started reading without stopping first to see what it was about. I expected, at the very least, that the stories would be LGBT related. I didn't read enough of the first to tell if it was - I read enough to see a young woman commenting, seemingly with arousal, about how her male friend was just so gosh darn handsome now. Once I read that I skipped to the next story. To encounter . . . graphic depictions of sex involving . . . a man and a woman. Sooo . . guess I should have looked at the book description before starting, right?

Miss Me With that Gay Shit (Please Don't) - Sacha Lamb
Briefly looked at, not yet read. So far it has hints that the female dislikes being female. Or, at the very least, desires to look more masculine. Judging by a comment involving testosterone. I can't spell.

Gifts of Spring - Shira Glassman
Fantasy, Graphic depictions of sex between a man and a woman.

Quick story about a mage hiding from a bad situation, literally hiding I mean, who encounters a juggler. Who, she's shocked to learn when his pants comes off is . . . Jewish. I word that the way I do because none of the characters appear to have bluntly hit me over the head as to why this specific story would be in a volume titled 'Queerly Loving' as the man appears to be a man, while the woman appears to be a woman. And they have graphic sex, which involves mentioning body parts, so . . . man and woman.

Two hints were dropped, very subtly. One involved the part where the woman 'became what she was supposed to be' when her powers came to her when she was something like 13. Which may or may not mean that her body transformed, morphed from one gender to another. There was a very slight hint that that was what was meant. But . . . she thinks of herself as female, she is in a female body (via magic instead of surgery, if the hints about the magic are right), so she's female. *shrugs* At least that's the way I've been taught to handle people - they tell me they are x, I treat them as x.

The man? Well, while it is try that he did like sucking on penis, it's his own penis. He's quite stretchy, apparently, and can twist himself into the correct position to give himself a blow job. Does that make him queer? Yes, no? Mind, if one of them had bluntly stated that they were queer, I'd revert back to that 'they tell me x, I treat them as x'. But both presented themselves as 1) straight; 2) one male, one female.

I reiterate that there are graphic depictions of male & female sex displayed in this story.

Beyond seeing the woman as a weak ass cowering coward of a woman, I have no real thoughts on this story beyond confusion already expressed. Well, I did just read a book about a woman who was 'forced' to do something she didn't want to do, like the woman in this story, and she 'ran away' like the woman in this story, and both displayed certain 'cowering' tendencies, but the female character in 'The Gargoyle Gets His Girl' is, roughly, 100% more interesting than the woman in this short story here. *shrugs, again*

Rating: fuck if I know. 2.7 ...more

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Jan 30, 2020 L ✨ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbtqiap

I bought this book on a whim thinking it was a comic anthology so you can see how prepared I was. All I wanted was to read something quickly and queer and that exactly what Queer Loving was. It was good but I feel like it could have explored different identities and a different way (the trope of the LI being mistaken for a woman/man to show that they were either a butch woman or a trans person was used a lot in my opinion, and not always well)

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1. Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don't) ...more

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Feb 18, 2018 Ceillie Simkiss rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, lgbtqia, ownvoices, mcs-of-color, fantasy, sci-fi, authors-of-color, short-stories, disability, neurodivergence

This was a pretty good anthology! The inclusion of a screenplay style story threw me off a little, but otherwise, it was very enjoyable!

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Feb 18, 2018 Jan added it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbtq, ymmv, asexuality, short-story-collection

Hunt and Peck by Teresa Theophano 5 stars

Dragons Do Not by Evelyn Deshane 5 stars

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Sep 28, 2017 Abi (The Knights Who Say Book) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: self-published-small-press, fantasy, jewish-ownvoices, lgbtqa-main-character, deaf-and-hard-of-hearing, diverse-reads, wlw, mlm, anthology, trans-characters

(3.5 stars — that the average of all the ratings of each story) So many good stories in here! A few duds too, but overall this is probably the second-best collection/anthology I've read this year, only after The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic.

I loved Sacha Lamb's story Miss Me With That Gay Shit, with its fresh and original romance and perfect ratio of #relatable to adorable (not mention Jewish characters! It's so well written). Other favorites were First Light at Dawn by ...more

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Feb 18, 2018 Dannica Zulestin rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: quiltbag, freebie, anthology

As often occurs with anthologies, my feelings were kind of medium. Some stories I really liked, some I thought were boring and skimmed. Here were my favorites:

"Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don't)" by Sacha Lamb
Transgender gay dude and cisgender gay dude, both Jewish, both I believe high-schoolers. Simple story of shenanigans and "does he like me or not?" Enjoyable.

"Hunt and Peck" by Teresa Theophano
Fairly femme bisexual girl and pretty butch lesbian meet through a typewriting competition a ...more

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Dec 04, 2017 Kronda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: queer-fiction

Queerly Loving Vol 1 had all of the feel-good happy ending romance that is easy to find when you're looking for cisgender heterosexual heroes, but is harder to find when it comes to queer representation. When I finished this book, I flipped to the back to find the twitter info for most of the authors, because I felt like these were voices I would want in my life wherever possible.
The last story is my favorite, with all its genderqueer/nonbinary goodness, but all of them are treats. Pick this up ...more

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Feb 14, 2018 Nina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbtq

Enjoyable anthology of queer fiction. I absolutely loved Evelyn Deshane's story "Dragons Do Not" and A.P. Raymond's "A Gallant Rescue". ...more

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Feb 14, 2018 Diana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: quiltbag, short-stories

A fantastically varied and diverse collection. Further notes here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/quick-p... ...more

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Dec 11, 2018 Lisa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2018

An anthology including a wide variety of LGBT+ characters, relationships and genres. I really enjoyed it and it definitely deserves a spot on my “Fav anthologies” list.

Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don’t) By Sacha Lamb
Representation: jewish trans man MC, mlm jewish LI, wlw jewish SC
TW: none
Rating: 4/5 Stars
I really enjoyed this story. It is a short contemporary story about a young trans guy who just recently meet a childhood acquaintance Nick at the GSA of his school again. Unsure of wheth ...more

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Aug 10, 2018 Amy Aelleah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Once I got over my kneejerk reaction to the title (because while I'm glad some in the LGBT+ community are reclaiming the word, I grew up with a father that used it derogatorily and…pretty sure I'd have a major issue using the word even in a good way) I decided I had to get this book. I mean, I was already kind of in love with that bright, almost comic-esque, cover.

Miss Me with that Gay Shit (Please Don't) by Sacha Lamb

This story is silly. It just is. It's a little contemporary high school tale ...more

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Feb 13, 2018 Nick rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbtqiap-lesbian, books-i-own, lgbtqiap, lgbtqiap-gay, romance, lgbtqiap-f-f, lgbtqiap-trans, lgbtqiap-non-binary, lgbtqiap-aromantic-spectrum, anthology

I got this for free on Amazon (God bless free ebooks), and read it surprisingly quickly, even though I usually have a little of a hard time with anthologies. (By the time I get the hang of the world, the story's ending already. Also, more often than not I just want MORE. WHICH I DON'T GET. WHICH IS FRUSTRATING.)

I'm not gonna go into detail about each and every story; I'll just mention my ratings and the identities the stories represent:

'Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don't)' by Sacha Lamb
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Sep 04, 2018 H. Bentham rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book has got to be my QUEEREST read during Pride month 2018 and it was amazing! Firstly, all the stories end happily! ❤️❤️❤️ Secondly, the stories are as diverse as the characters’ representation! Some of them I haven’t found on paper before this! 🏳️‍🌈
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Idk where exactly to start with the review here but I love everything about this. Okay, maybe not ~everything, bec there’s one there that was too heavy for my taste. Then again, you can’t present a true and in-depth queer experience without d ...more

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Mar 03, 2018 Annie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I really loved this book. It is quite literally diversity put into writing. You don't only get to read fresh authors, perspectives and characters but can also experience diverse ways of storytelling. There is something in here for everyone. Out of these nine short stories my favourite was "First Light at Dawn" by Nyri Bakkalian. This story is told in the form of an E-Mail answer from a transwoman veteran called Kate to a friend she hasn't spoken to in years.
But seeing, that this book is only par ...more

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Sep 06, 2019 Elna Holst rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is such a sweet, crazy, tender, multifaceted collection of nine queer short stories, representing various denizens along the lgbtqia+ spectrum. My two favourites are Sacha Lamb’s Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don’t) and Teresa Theophano’s Hunt and Peck, both of which I’ll be revisiting whenever I’m in need of a gay pick-me-up (who isn’t these days?). All of the stories are faultlessly edited and well-written, however, even if not each and every one resonated with me personally. A solid ...more

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Mar 06, 2020 Max rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: asexual-spectrum, aromantic-spectrum

A fantastically diverse collection of queer love stories, including fantasy worlds, contemporary romances, and Solarpunk settings and protagonists of identities across the I'm tells/marquee of queer identities and orientations. I especially enjoyed Birthday Landscapes, a story about a disabled aromantic warrior who comes home to celebrate his children's birthday, and First Light at Dawn, a lesbian love story about a trans lady pilot and a librarian. The only shortcoming (pun fully intended) is t ...more

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Mar 03, 2018 Ottilee B. rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own-review, free, kindle, t-series-firsts, t-transgender, g-mm, j-soldiers, 100-199-pages, t-anthology, 2017

In the first story I felt WAY too far in left field ("Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don't)" by Sacha Lamb) but I really enjoyed "First Light at Dawn" by Nyri Bakkalian. "Dawn" was written as a letter, telling about a trans pilot in the armed forces to her friend, a civilian. It was deeply moving.

This may not have the stars it should but it was diverse: gay teens, trans soldiers.

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Apr 19, 2019 Jay Bracknell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Cute collection of queer HEAs with something for everyone - there’s an 80s typing contest romance, a dragons as support animals fantasy, and an aromatic older couple raising kids in a land of war and magic. Would be a great addition for anyone’s shelf but especially librarians or book shop buyers wanting to stock genre defying queer stories.

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Feb 27, 2018 Mashiara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbtqia

as it is with short story collections, there are some that capture you more than others. what I really enjoyed in the overall collection, though, is that this is a true collection of queer stories, not just lesbian and gay ones. as such, this collection is a bright and shiny jewel.

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