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Contents:

• GAY BOOKS
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

GAY BOOKS

In her sophomore poetry llectn (after 2012’s When My Brother Was an Aztec), Diaz wr about the polics, sire, ecstasy, and landspe of bodi leral and metaphoril. The Selected Work of Audre Lor eded by Roxanne GayThe Selected Works of Audre Lor The Selected Works of Audre Lor Cred: W.

Here, another ccial figure lerary and social jtice spac, Roxane Gay, llects some of Lor’s many says and poems to a new anthology and troduc them as only she n: wh reverence, cisivens, and lumo What Asexualy Reveals About Dire, Society, and the Meang of Sex by Angela ChenAce: What Asexualy Reveals about Dire, Society, and the Meang of SexAce: What Asexualy Reveals about Dire, Society, and the Meang of SexCred: Bean PrsFally, a book about asexualy that’s not clil or purely amic! This is a gothic romp of a gay book. In his sophomore novel, a young unnamed (until the end) narrator, a closeted trans boy, is grievg his mother, who died a myster fire.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

Gay Books. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.

gay-gay-gay. From grippg memoirs to movg fictn and even poetry, there’s been plenty to bury your head this year, and Attu book reviewer Uli Lenart of London’s inic Gay’s the Word bookshop has selected 20 of the most important mt-reads of the last 12 months. Gay’s the Word has stood on London’s Marchmont Street for more than 40 years, offerg LGBTQ book-lovers a sanctuary of spirual and sexualy-related exploratn.

13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

In a year that has seen the prolonged closure of pennt retailers durg var lockdowns, Gay’s the Word have been offerg an onle orr service, so you n stock up om the socially-distanced safety of home at – and help support a queer stutn the procs. The articulate and betifully wrten tobgraphy by Michael Cashman, who played Col EastEnrs, one half of the famo first gay snog a Brish soap, and who would go on to bee a pneerg gay right s activist, MEP and member of the Hoe of Lords.

Adorned wh praise om legends lik Simon Callow and Armistead Mp, this is the story of a tenac and passnate gay rights hero. A ptivatg, eloquent and genuely spirg memoir about growg up gay a strict Mlim hoehold. In a home where beg gay was nceivable, he felt alienated and alone.

One of the most astonishg ntemporary gay novels we have ever read, Swimmg the Dark is extraordarily betiful, enrapturg and poignant. Black, gay and grapplg wh mp life, bchemistry stunt Wallace has spent his summer the lab breedg nemato worms. Green’s books are like the bt iend you wished you had as a shy, gay teen.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

This h and fearls lerary but charted the extraordary story of 19-year-old Jse, a Black, gay man rejected by his fay and Jehovah’s Wns muny, who ns away to London, where he fds work as a rent boy. Based on six years of tailed rearch, The Pk Le is a landmark new study to global polil homophobia and the shiftg battlegrounds the culture wars over sexual orientatn and genr inty.