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Sonny Vukic (he/him)

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LGBTQ+ People: who we are, through books. #lgbtq #gaybooks #lgbtqpeople #lgbtqculture #lgbtqfamilies #gayfiction #gayliterature #pride #gayreader #booksky #gaybooksky #bookcollector

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · Jan 21

Brief intro:
- avid reader of modern 🏳️‍🌈 literature.
- LGBTQ life & history through books
- avid (euphemism for OCD!😁) collector of 1st editions
- native of Croatia 🇭🇷, then New York, & San Francisco
- celebrating LGBTQ people, history, culture, socio-politics, & love
- husband, father 😍

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 3h

“Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built.”
#LGBTQHistory #GayBooks

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 3h

The iconic Divine.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 4h

Girls Girls Girls — a love letter to San Francisco and to the home it offers to queer people finding their place in the world.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 18h

💯💯

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 1d

Multi award winning English actor Ben Whishaw.
#lgbtq

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 1d

Miles Heizer, star of Boots, on Netflix.
Excellent series.

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 2d

My Friends by Fredrik Backman.
Wow, what a novel… about art, friendship, love, loss, youth, and more. A central character is gay.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 3d

Red, White, and Royal Wedding coming soon. 🥂🥂

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 3d

Trans lit.
"A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." —The New York Times

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 3d

An intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of The L Word―including never-before-shared stories and photos from behind the scenes of the show and their personal lives.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 4d

So good. The journey of a gay teen in the Marines in the don’t ask / don’t tell era.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 10d

And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Nigerian author and queer liberation activist Ani Kayode Somtochukwu.
Stunning.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 15d

Lambda Lit Award finalist, LGBTQ SciFi/Romance. Excellent.

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 15d

Delightful, and sad, YA novel about gay young-adulting in NYC, circa 1990.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 16d

“Bloody fantastic novel!”

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 18d

A novel that reads like beautiful poetry, the love story between the God Apollo and Hyacinthus.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 20d

Benito Skinner and the cast of Overcompensating.
Brilliant.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 20d

Calistoga and St. Helena, Napa Valley, CA.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 22d

Before Romeo and Juliet, there was David and Jonathan.

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 25d

And introducing Dexter Gaines. A novel about 1950s Hollywood and its glamorous icons.
#GayBooks

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 28d

Outstanding new music. Beautiful!
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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 29d

A 1970s and 1980s travelogue of a young man navigating coming out and searching for something beyond an opressive father and a stifling Kansas City. He finds it in New Orleans, San Francisco, New York. Excellent back from “that era”.
#GayBooks #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQLiterature

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 29d

LGBTQ history: Miguel de Cervantes, “the Spanish Shakespeare”, and “the father of Don Quixote“.
#LGBTQHistory #GayBooks

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 29d

The great stuff. Tom Cardamone.

#GayBooks #LGBTQLiterature

Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 29d

Excellent novel. Excellent excellent excellent.