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Contents:
UNVERG THE PAST: A GUI TO THE 10 BT GAY HISTORY BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ!
* gay books set in the past *
“Billy’s Boy” n be read as a stand-alone book; is about a teenager’s search to learn more about his ad gay father and his lbian mother’s past, as he experienc his own sexual HOURS (1998)By Michael CunnghamAward the 1999 Pulzer Prize for fictn, “The Hours” is a riff on Virga Woolf’s “Mrs.
Grapplg wh feelgs of aquacy the lavish “lookg-glass world, ” he disvers metropolan gay life through a iendship wh Leo, a civil MASTER (2004)By Colm ToibThis novel, set between 1895 and 1899, treads the le between fictn and bgraphy, explorg the later life of Henry Jam, the wrer known as “the Master.
” Colm Toib imag, wh vivid tail, members of Jam’s circle — like his voted manservant, Burgs Noak — as well as Jam’s feelgs of guilt, regret and homosexual CALDA (2005)By Keh McDermottThis novel by longtime theater actor Keh McDermott follows Gerald Bart, a retired actor sufferg om AIDS. McDermott ptur theater life well, and f the book wh an ternatnal st of HOME (2006)A Fay TragiicBy Alison BechlIn this acclaimed graphic memoir, which was turned to a Tony Award-wng Broadway mil, Alison Bechl — a rtoonist also known for creatg the Bechl tt, a standard for judgg the qualy of women’s onscreen rol — scrib both g out and g to terms wh her closeted gay father’s ath. Wh sensivy and a ep nnectn to the girls, Beam scrib their stggl wh transng and how they rencile them wh more faiar teenage ncerns like csh and BOY (2009)By Rakh SatyalKiran Sharma, a 12-year-old gay Indian-Amerin boy, choos ballet over basketball and wears his mother’s perfume to school, beg a social outst and upendg his parents’ expectatns.