Bookin' It in 2022

I finished 20 books in 2022.  The titles in bold were particularly influential, inspiring or intriguing.

1. Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere 
2. Can Black People Grow Hair? by Andrea Krystal 
3.  Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
4. Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color by Gilbert Baker
5. Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
6. High School by Sara Quin & Tegan Quin
7. Femme in Public by ALOK
8. Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Extremism by Megan Phelps-Roper
9. Unprotected: A Memoir by Billy Porter
10. Your Wound / My Garden by ALOK
11. If You Give a Pig the White House by Faye Kanouse
12. Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity Edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane
13. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts 40x40: Bad Reputation / I Love Rock-n-Roll
14. Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
15. Bearing My Seoul by Taryn Blake
16. The Little Book of Pride: Love Is Love by Joanna Gray
17. Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family by Amanda Jetté Knox
18. Enter the Blue by Dave Chisholm
19. Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach
20. Saint Peter and the Goldfinch: Poems by Jack Ridl

Quote of the Day

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible, to live in the truth, as I say, to get out of the lie.  A flag really fit that mission, because that's a way of proclaiming your visibility or saying, "This is who I am!"

-- Gilbert Baker, The Little Book of Pride: Love Is Love, p. 87

Quote of the Day

When all else fails, art is the ultimate weapon.

-- Gilbert Baker, Rainbow Warrior, p. 177

Quote of the Day

Compromise is the art of public art.  Everything I do takes so much human effort that in the end it's not really mine.  I guess that's success.  The hard part is trading away all the control while holding on to your integrity.

-- Gilbert Baker, Rainbow Warrior, p. 113

Quote of the Day

Some of (the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) had actually been in seminary, and many were ex-Catholics.  Satire and humor were the best weapons they had against the guns and hatred of those who called themselves Christian.  The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were on a mission to expiate stigmatic guilt and spread universal joy -- while pushing the buttons of the pious.  They were true clowns and media marauders, straight out of the French Revolution.  There was something magnificent and terrible about them, visually and symbolically.

-- Gilbert Baker, Rainbow Warrior, p. 71