Visual aids
An LGBTQ Pride reading list for 2024 GREGG SHAPIRO | Contributing Writer GreggShapiro@aol.com Each year, more and more visually graphic books geared towards the LGBTQ community can be found on physical and virtual bookshelves, and this year is no exception.
Gay writer and illustrator Maurice Vellekoop got 2024 off to a fabulous start with his wonderful and visually stunning graphic memoir I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together, setting the bar high for the other illustrated books that would follow.
Leela Corman demonstrates that she was more than up to the task with Victory Parade (Schocken, 2024). Set during World War II where Rose and queer Pearl (who has a girlfriend named Marlene) work as welders in a Brooklyn Navy Yard, Victory Parade also features German Jewish refugee Ruth who becomes an unexpected star in the realm of female wrestlers.
Along with Holocaust dramas such as We Were the Lucky Ones and The Zone of Interest, Corman’s Victory Parade functions to fill a void in the public’s concerning lack of awareness on the subject.
