Gay coloring
The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book
Grab your crayons and your backpack for a fantastical journey through The Big Homosexual Alphabet Coloring Book, sixty-four pages illustrating twenty-six words that highlight memorable victories and collective moments in LGBTQP (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Gender nonconforming, Queer, Questioning, and Pansexual) culture.
The Giant Gay Alphabet Coloring Book is Jacinta Bunnell’s fourth manual in the Queerbook Committee series of coloring books (including Girls Are Not Chicks and Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon) and the first with acclaimed illustrator Leela Corman (Unterzakhn). As you add your control extraordinary colors to these pages, we hope you are left asking, “Isn’t everything fabulous in this world just a little bit gay?” This notion is celebrated on every unique page, made up of inked and framed line drawings with beautiful typography, reminiscent of a handsomely designed vintage children’s alphabet book.
Each time, we take another step toward a greater understanding of gender fluidity, gender diversity, and sexual orientation. Change does not come easily or unfold overnight. But together we are an unflapp
This week we’re continuing last week’s celebration of the beginning of a new fiscal year by reviewing some notable items and collections that arrived here at the Rubenstein Library in the past year.
The Gay Coloring Book
The Guild Press, 1964
Only a handful of these exceptional coloring books are famous to exist. Chronicling the life of Percy and his friends through 24 drawings, TheGay Coloring Book was one of the first books published by the Guild Press to take readers into all-male social spaces such as gay parties and homosexual bars, as well as the sexual cruising scenes in public parks, widespread bathrooms, alleys, and bathhouses. The coloring book features illustrations by George Haimsohn, who also published same-sex attracted fiction under the label Alexander Goodman.
Post contributed by Jennifer Scott, Bingham Center Public Services Intern
History is Gay Coloring Page: Mary Read
We’re raising money to back Black trans folks and bringing you things to keep you occupied in quarantine!
For a $2.00 donation, you’ll get a download this page so you can color some scenes of our favorite stories and humans featured in History is Gay episodes, and then share your completed masterpieces with us on social media using the hashtag #HIGColoringBook!
100% of proceeds will be donated to The Okra Project, a collective that seeks to talk to the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home-cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Shadowy Trans People wherever they can reach them
This page depicts everyone’s favorite dangerous, swashbuckling, swooning nautical heartbreaker, Mary Read! She was featured in our very first episode, “Were Some Pirates Poofters?”.
This page was illustrated by Rima Salloum:
Rima (she/her), graphic designer from France. Find me @rsgraphics13 on Instagram for my work, and @KiwyHB on Twitter for hilarity borne out of annoyance.
You can see more of her work here: https://rimasalloum.wixsite.com/rsgraphics
Twitter: @KiwyHB
Insta: @rsgraphics13