I am obsessed with Fun Home.
Like I’m changing my major to Fun Home.
I’m talking about the graphic memoir by the brilliant Allison Bechdel and the hit Broadway musical based on the book.
I tell W I’m a Fun Homie.
She grimaces.
But buys us tickets for our anniversary next month.
And sometimes sings Ring of Keys in the shower.
I bought Fun Home in 2007 from Giovanni’s Room, a gay bookstore in Philadelphia.
I just finished re-reading it in anticipation of the play. I was sad like I always am when I finish a good book.
I started thinking about what to read next. But when you’re a butch lesbian, how do you top Fun Home?
And that’s when I read that Leslie Steinberg’s groundbreaking Stone Butch Blues is being made available for download to celebrate Leslie’s Sept. 1 birthday. Click here to download your free copy.
So, I will be reading Stone Butch Blues tonight. And thinking about Leslie Feinberg and Allison Bechdel and all the other butch writers who have made it a little easier for the rest of us to be ourselves.
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What are you reading?
