For years gay people were tolerated the arts – and were then acced of takg over. Gregory Woods trac the works of wrers, artists, tellectuals and film stars who transformed 20th-century culture
Contents:
- TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
- HISTORIL 20TH CENTURY GAY ROMANCE BOOKS
- 19TH 20TH CENTURY GAY AND LBIAN BOOKS
- LOST GAY NOVELS
- BOOK AWARDSPUBLISHG TRIANGLE 100 BT LBIAN AND GAY NOVELS
- FROM GAY NSPIRACY TO QUEER CHIC: THE ARTISTS AND WRERS WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
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SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford. The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy.
HISTORIL 20TH CENTURY GAY ROMANCE BOOKS
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The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo. The book is remembered today for this legacy as well as for var them -- Hollywood's glass closet, beg gay the ary, the poisono effects of homophobia on society -- that still reverberate today. The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici.
"This epic chronicle of gay culture the Amerin sixti is as far-reachg as is important, givg a glimpse to inty and motive, " affirmed SJ Sdu, the thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li. The 1982 book by Edmund Whe, which begs wh the first sexual enunter of a 15-year-old boy, is based on his own experienc g to terms wh his gay inty as a youth the Midwtern Uned Stat. Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy.
Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect. Wonrful book, " gay refugee activist and lumnist Danny Ramadan rav about the global-md book unpacks the emotnal life of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian civil war who begs a gut-wrenchg affair wh a fellow refugee. Dalloway, a novel to which Cunngham pays homage; mid-20th-century Los Angel, hoewife Lra Brown, disntented wh her life, nonts her attractn to women; and 1990s New York Cy, Clarissa Vghan, who is lbian, plans a party for her bt iend, wrer Richard Brown, a gay man dyg of AIDS.
19TH 20TH CENTURY GAY AND LBIAN BOOKS
Books shelved as 19th-20th-century-gay-and-lbian: 鳄鱼手记 by Qiu Miaoj, Cartas póstumas s Montmartre by Qiu Miaoj, Annie en mis pensamientos by Na... * gay novels 20th century *
Isherwood was a gay man livg pre-Nazi, Jazz Age Berl, teractg wh the eclectic, queer, and poor — many of them margalized people who would later be at the greatt risk of persecutn om the Nazis.
The book was received wh ntroversy, and beme one of the most notor gay novels of the mid-1900s — Vidal was blacklisted after releasg , forced to wre unr psdonyms for nearly six years. In 2020, an attempt was ma to rever rerds om the LAPD, only to disver they had been stroyed at some pot, makg Rechy’s scriptn his novel the only origal acunt of the event nsired by some to be the first gay uprisg the U. Mrice follows protagonist Mrice Hall, who disvers that he is gay while studyg at Cambridge and go on to stggle wh his queerns throughout his life — experiencg ternalized homophobia, heartbreak, blackmail, and love.
Male homosexualy was illegal England until 1967, and he was termed for his book to have a happy endg, which uld make the book liable to prosecutn as well as general homophobic sentiment om the public.
LOST GAY NOVELS
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Forster was open about his homosexualy to close iends but not out to the public, another reason not to publish, although morn rears n see queer subtext his other novels, cludg A Passage to India. This is what spired him to wre the fairy tale of sorts that is this book, a seri of vigt that pat the story of a group of gay men, femists, drag queens, lbians, queer men, and more who live, produce art, have sex, and wa for a revolutn as they’re led by a clg patriarchal empire. But the 1970s gay subculture isn’t exactly the place to fd te love — stead he rolls through a seri of bathho, sual hookups, diss, an y, emotnally ol enunters, and a tub’s worth of different party dgs.
Ultimately, Kramer’s cricism of gay promiscuy and cisg culture stck a nerve and was seen as harsh, but his portrayal of a muny takg too many risks has grown more accepted sce the revelatns of the AIDS crisis. Jason, Kyle, and Nelson are three high school teens stgglg wh their queer inti — Jason is the classic jock, a basketball team star who has a lot to lose if he adms he’s bisexual; Kyle is gay but hop no one, pecially his parents, ever fds out; and Nelson is the first his gra to be fully out of the closet, thanks part to a supportive mom.
Some reviewers (a b optimistilly) say that much of the bullyg or homophobia they experience isn’t relevant today, but the tth is, many young queer people are still stgglg to navigate an tolerant world packed wh toxic masculy. In this book set 1960s Nigeria, a Christian Igbo girl named Ijeoma disvers her love for a Mlim Hsa girl named Ama, only to face extreme homophobia and prsure om her fay to bee heterosexual and f properly wh what is expected om her.
BOOK AWARDSPUBLISHG TRIANGLE 100 BT LBIAN AND GAY NOVELS
Searchg for an troductn to the shadowy, trigug world of early 20th century gay-themed fictn? In Lost Gay Novels, rpected pop culture historia * gay novels 20th century *
This short read is the first novel by an Equatorial Guean woman to be translated to English — but while is still ocsnally sold the untry, the book is officially banned Equatorial Guea due to s gay protagonist. In A Country for Dyg, Taïa wr of a Morocn prostute, Zahira, and the people who take refuge by her si — om Aziz, who is transng to life as a woman and wants Zahira to choose her new name, to a gay Iranian revolutnary and refugee, to Allal, Zahira’s first love. From his own personal story of g to New York as a gay man 1978 to the vastatg impact of the vis to the biased news articl to the foundg of ACT UP and TAG, France vers wh credible tail and heart the story of the activists, doctors, lobbyists, and more who fought agast all the prsure and ristance of the system around them to fd a way to stop this horror s tracks.
The book is now facg bans — 2021, nservativ Downers Grove, Illois tried to mand that Genr Queer be pulled om the high school library, claimg “exposed children to homoeroticism and pornography.
The powerful, hont, and lyril memoir is about all the vlence that has been leveled agast him over the years for beg Black and gay, but also about love and survival, and about his plex relatnship wh his mother and grandmother.
FROM GAY NSPIRACY TO QUEER CHIC: THE ARTISTS AND WRERS WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
It was a lnchg pot for the Beat poets, but was also ccial for tablishg the ia that a homosexual work uld not be banned on grounds of obsceny if had reemg social importance and did not have a “substantial tenncy to prave or rpt s rears. But this narrow range—books set between 1950 and 1969—showed thors navigatg a world jt before the gay rights movement gaed strength, and imagg different kds of liv for their LGBTQ characters. But the relatnship between the gay love terts—Sammy, one of the ma characters, and Tracy, the rad voice of the ic book character Sammy helped create—is a tragic and val part of this sweepg historil Price of Saltby Patricia Highsmh.