Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States was my Pride-2020 read #8
Samantha is an author & journalist. She likes waffles shaped like Texas. She appreciates a good double rainbow. And she is a transgender woman. And this book is her love letter to the LGBTQ+ communities living and thriving in Red States.
On a road trip with her friend Billy Samantha revisits some places she spent time in before this trip and visits others. She is in Texas the night that SB 3 passes. She is on her way to her next destination the morning trump tweets about his ban on Transgender people in the armed forces. She revisits her Mormon upbringing in Utah and Bloomington where she met her wife.
With humor and honesty and love Samantha reminds us that there are vibrant LGBTQ+ communities in places between the East & West Coasts and we get to see these place and meet some amazing and beautiful people.
(Finished July 1, 2020)
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