Love and Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford

Sam, an almost-seventeen-year-old gay boy in small-town New York who works backstage at his town's gay bar with three drag queens, falls in love with Tom Swift, a trans boy newly arrived in town.

 

This book contains: activism, alcohol, alternate gender/sexual ideologies, anxiety, controversial gender, historical and social commentary, death/grief (human and pets), deception, depression, derogatory terms, divination, drag queens, drugs, dubious consent (themes), explicit sexual activities, gender dysphoria, illegal use of prescription drugs, potentially prurient content, profanity, self-harm, smoking, suicide, theft, toxic behaviors, use of a Class I Medical Device (chest binder), use of a dildo, unvetted websites/books referenced.