Édouard Louis's but novel ed a sensatn his native France for s pictn of what ’s like to be a gay boy an impoverished, Mare Le Pen-lovg village. And now, five days before the French electn, an English translatn is htg...
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THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY AUTHOR WHO WR GAYS COMG OF AGE AMIDST FASCISM
bisexual, bisexuel, ance, ançais, ench, gay, homo, lbian, lbienne, lgbt, novel, queer, roman, trans, transgenr. Photos by John Folley, urty of Farrar, Strs and GirouxThe 24-year-old gay French wrer Édouard Louis scrib most French lerary novelists as "people om the bourgeoisie that wre about the bourgeoisie and don't really qutn the world.
His but tobgraphil novel The End of Eddy, published France 2014, picts his childhood as a gay boy growg up an impoverished, Fascist-ridn small town of Hallenurt. (As every bottom knows, 's always the bottom, never the top, who gets the bnt of homophobia workg class towns. His dad, for stance, may nounce gay sex his hoe, but when he spots men beatg a lol gay man, he attacks the homophob.
Their varly humane and hilar portras of queerns and same-sex love and lt—and the everyday liv of those who experience them—are illumatg, whether you’re gay, straight, or somewhere between. Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021).