This is a collection of poetry, stories, and graphic artwork rather than one story. While all of the works included are expressing reactions to the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, the overarching theme of the collection is love. Love in various forms. The artwork in this collection is fantastic, and really made me stop to think about it.

With every turn of the page, I cried. I also smiled. Deep in my core I felt all my emotions running amok. Each page a different story, each one just as powerful. Heartbreaking tales, beautiful tales. My heart goes out to those who's light was stolen from them. My heart goes out to those who lost loved ones. My heart goes out to those who survived that night.My heart goes out to those who have to hide.My heart goes out to those who live in fear.I hope for a day like in the Superboy strip, a day w...

Love Is Love is a collection of one- to two-page stories about the tragedy that took place on June 12, when 49 people were killed when a gunman opened fire in Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. It includes stories that mourn the victims, examine love and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.To say that I was anticipating this would be understatement – Love Is Love had incredible potential to become a complete game-changer. But I quickly found that instead of targeting its focus on highlighting #ownvoi...

Even though there were some stories better than others in here I just couldn't give this anything less than 5 stars! It was so powerful and it really did have an effect on me when reading. At times, I could only read a few pages a day because it had such a hard impact on me and was really pretty emotional! The stories were beautifully drawn and beautifully told and it was awesome to see some familiar faces in the stories too, such as dc characters and even the riverdale group! This book will nev...

I was crying when I found out about the shooting & I'm crying right now.

I feel kind of bad giving this a 2.5 star because it is such an important anthology, but I honestly ended up skimming half of it because it was very repetitive. I don't think there were enough differentiating types of stories and art forms to keep this interesting enough to read all the way through. I read this on the 2 year anniversary of the Pulse shooting, and it felt incredibly impactful as I read it. These were stories about the families, the shooter, the government, the LGBTQ+ community, e...

Read this in tribute to the Orlando victims, in protest of legislation removing hard won rights for LGBT people, for love that is revolution. But keep a box of tissues handy, as in more than one.

Love wins!But this graphic novel. Not so much.

missed the mark completely. lots of focus on cishets and their feelings and not near enough about, y'know, LGBT people. the book also felt alarmingly white given that the shooting was purposely done during a Latinx night. too many str8 superheroes crying and honestly? too many depictions of dead bodies. it felt extremely disrespectful and only gets two stars for a handful of decent LGBT stories

I would love to rate this higher, but like all anthologies, and collections where people are contributing, there are some ups and downs. This anthology is for a very good cause, the victims of the nightclub shooting in Orlando. Just because I am rating it only three stars does not mean that I didn't rush out and buy it. It is important to support this sort of thing.But...there is something off about this. It is almost as though the contributors weren't sure what statement they wanted to make, be...

Boy, am I tired after reading this anthology. I gotta say, when I read that this book would "mourn the victims [of the Pulse shooting], examine love and celebrate the LGBTQ community," this is not what I imagined.Based on the joyful and optimistic cover image, I expected an emphasis on joyful and optimistic stories about LGBTQ indivuals, or else honest and insightful stories reflecting the range of LGBTQ experience, with some reference to the shooting. I knew that many of the contributing creato...

I thought this was an amazing tribute. There is a lot of love in this book. This is a collection of 1 and 2 page stories to support people hurting from the Orlando Pulse Shooting. Writers from everywhere contributed, all in love. I'm going to start with my complaint. The stories were too short. I wanted to stick with a story for a few pages. There should have been a story or two that was the anchor for the other short stories.Ok, that is my only complaint. The rest - amazing. So many emotions ra...

Let me be clear, as what this graphic novel stands for and the donations towards it all this is a 10/5. This is special. This is something only goodhearted people can create. Now the stories. Some of them just didn't connect. Some felt a bit repetitve. I get that, it's supposed to be the writers own views on it, but some just didn't gel well with me. I didn't feel like they had the right mindset. Also some didn't connect on the level of the events and what happened for me. On the flipside the go...

It probably goes without saying that this is a tear-jerker. I don't recommend it for reading on your commute, coffee-break, or at time when you are likely to be repeatedly interrupted by someone asking technical questions.The entries are all short, one or two page spreads. Of course the quality varies, but I thought it was generally high, remarkably so given that the contributors apparently whipped it out in a matter of days. Clearly there wasn't a lot of time to try to coordinate or make sure e...

This was such a powerful, heart wrenching story. There are no other words I could use to describe this. Please, just read this. It's so important.

2.5*- 3*..? Ummm....well this collection had IMMENSE potential, but it fell somewhat flat for me. Don't get me wrong, many of the one-to-two page spreads were beautiful and spot on but there are SO MANY crucial components of the LGBTQIA+ community missing. It focuses too much on romantic type of love only and there are some spreads that shouldn't be there, like the cis-het man trying to think of what to say while realizing he has nothing TO say because he's inserting himself in something that is...

I didn't mean to read this.Or I guess I should say that I didn't know this existed. Or that I didn't meant to read it nowMy library informed me all the proceeds from borrows of this (via Hoopla app) go to Equality Florida. I very quickly downloaded it and encourage others whose library's use Hoopla to do this same.The overall message behind this anthology is one of unity, and one I believe is extremely important. Some of the comics capture this very well and were very beautiful.Others, I felt we...

Brilliant an excellent tribute to the awful event of last year, was nearly in tears at some of the panels.They handled this very well and I highly recommend this.

10/10 That's all I can say for now. So many feelings. Read it ASAP!!EDIT:Το Love Is Love είναι ένα graphic novel που δημιουργήθηκε για να τιμήσει τα θύματα του Ορλάντο (12/6/2016) . Περιλαμβάνει ιστορίες 1-2 σελίδων και κάνουν guest εμφανίσεις πολλοί γνωστοί υπερήρωες όπως ο Batman, η Wonderwoman, η Supergirl, η Catwoman, η Poison Ivy και η Harley Queen. Οι πραγματικοί ήρωες των ιστοριών όμως είναι οι απλοί άνθρωποι, μέλη της LGBTQAI+ κοινότητας, που χωρίς υπερδυνάμεις προσπαθούν να ξεπεράσουν τ...

I can only read a tiny bit at a time because of all the crying. People are horrible and also capable of empathy and compassion and grace. Ineffable.