Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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# *🌈📚 WELCOME TO THE GAY SH!T READ- & WATCH-ATHON! 🌈📚*
Are you ready for a month of LGBTQIA+ books, reading sprints, watch parties, community fun, and all the gayness we can possibly bring you? We’re getting started a little fashionably late, so we’ll be running through the 2nd weekend in July, just to make sure we can get our proper GAY SH!T experience. But don’t worry–if you got started already, you can still count what you’ve read since June 1st!

## Join us for the GAY SH!T Readathon as we celebrate queer stories, queer authors, queer voices, and queer joy with an incredible community of book-loving friends.
Whether you're here for romance, fantasy, literary fiction, horror, memoirs, graphic novels, manga, or non-fiction, there is a place for you on this rainbow-filled adventure.

## ✨ How to Play GAY SH!T
+ 👉 tinyurl.com/HowToPlayGaySht

## ✨ SIGN UP HERE:
+ 👉 tinyurl.com/GaySh-tApp

## 🎉 Created and Hosted by Koda (Your BookTube Bestie)
+ 👉 youtube.com/@KodaMeansFriend

## 👉 Co- Creator, Conspirator, Collaborator, Conjurer, Confectioner & Caster
+ 👉 youtube.com/@DustyBookSniffers

## Find Nicoda On Twitch:
+ 👉Koda: twitch.tv/kodameansfriend
+ 👉Nicole: twitch.tv/nicoles_books_and_crafts

## 🌈 WHAT TO EXPECT
+ 📚 Reading Sprints
+ 🎬 Watch Parties
+ 💬 Community Discussions
+ 🎉 Challenges & Team Fun
+ 📖 LGBTQIA+ Book Recommendations
+ 🌈 Celebrating Queer Stories and Authors
+ 😂 Chaotic Conversations
+ 🍿 Snack-Fuelled Reading Sessions
+ 💕 New Bookish Friendships
And, of course, all the _gayness_ we can possibly bring you throughout the month!

## ✨ Subscribe to the GAY SH!T Team:
+ 👉 https://linktr.ee/teamnicoda
*✨ _Whether you read 1 book or 30, this readathon is for everyone._*
Jump in anytime and join us for a month of books, laughter, friendship, watch parties, reading sprints, and celebrating LGBTQIA+ stories together. 💬📖🌈💕

## 📖 THE CHALLENGE
+ Create a TBR filled with LGBTQIA+ books and read as many as you can throughout the readathon.
+ We have all the prompts you can handle. **Complete competitively, or not!**
+ Read what you love.
+ Read at your own pace.
+ Discover new authors.
+ Support queer voices.
+ Most importantly—have fun!

## 📍 EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR THE GAY SH!T READATHON
+ ✨ Signup & Submission WebApp 👉 tinyurl.com/GaySh-tApp
+ ✨ Participant Assets (More to Come) 👉 tinyurl.com/GSParticipantDrive
+ ✨ Merch! 👉 store.kodameansfriend.com/collections/gay-sh-t
+ ✨ Team & Links 👉 https://linktr.ee/teamnicoda
+ ✨ Co-host Announcements & TBR Playlist 👉 tiny.cc/GayShtAnnouncementandTBRs
+ ✨Sprint Parade Playlist 👉 tiny.cc/GayShtSprintParade
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## ⚠️ GAY SH!T READATHON DISCLAIMER
+ At the GAY SH!T Readathon, we take reading... well, sometimes seriously. But _snacks? *Snacks*_ are sacred. 🍿🥤
+ Expect chaotic fun, random laughter, plenty of book discussions, watch parties, team banter, and the occasional completely off-topic conversation that somehow starts with books and ends somewhere entirely different. 👀
+ We may get a little unhinged. 😂 _Eating and drinking during sprints, watch parties, and events is entirely at your own risk._ We are not responsible for spit-takes, choking on snacks, or laughing so hard you lose your place in your book.
# You've been warned…
Now grab a snack, pick up your current read, and join the chaos. 💀💬📖🌈


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