Love reaches us, fills us, makes us feel a special warmth in our hearts, like an imaginary embrace, strong, tight, warm and comforting. Love is diverse: it does not discriminate, love is so many things! With it we can laugh and cry too, because love is wide, vast and infinite in its possibilities. Love is something we experience in different ways.
An invitation to open one’s eyes, mind and heart. The eyes to see diversity, the mind to understand it and the heart to embrace it in its humanity. It is a journey through the history of sexual and gender diversity with the main milestones of the LGBTQIA+ collective. Here are their struggles, inequalities, challenges overcome and resounding triumphs. It is a work that seeks to recognise and value the strength of those who have paved the way towards a more inclusive world.
A responsible book by professionals specialising in diversity and gender issues. Its chapters are: Love and sexual diversity; LGBTQIA+ sexual diversity; Language and its effects on reality; Pride as a movement; LGBTQIA+ in the world, Questions and answers for citizens of today and tomorrow and a final reflection on a world where we all fit.
Key points
• Explains the different groups belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community.
• It uses history as a resource to show that sexuality and gender diversity has existed since ancient times.
• Asks questions that help to understand that gender and sexuality are dynamic and complex concepts that are constantly changing.
• It uses clear and friendly examples.
• Promotes more inclusive and friendly language.
Lucha Sotomayor & Gabriela Alburquenque
2021 – IBBY Chile Award, Best Collection, Conscious Citizen (La Bonita Ediciones)
Mathias Sielfeld
2021 – IBBY Chile Award, Best Collection, Conscious Citizen (La Bonita Ediciones)
2020 – Image of the book Award (Russia), Illustration, Non-Fiction