Top 100 Gay Novels of the XXI century (932 books)

Contents:

• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• ‘I JT WANT SOMETHG THAT’S GAY AND HAPPY’: L.G.B.T.Q. ROMANCE IS BOOMG
• CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
• TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY

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

Maybe you’re cravg a YA novel sans homophobia. Though Esposo do lve to some heavy subject matter this memoir (sexual asslt, faial/relig homophobia, disorred eatg), she’s so funny and warm that the book don’t feel heavy. It’s fely got s hard moments—he wr about addictn and abe, the racism and lorism he’s faced as a gay Black man, his plited path to fatherhood.

Eric Btle is a gay, pie-bakg hockey player at a small llege. The characters are all kd and lovely to each other and have each other’s backs and there’s no homophobia or toxic masculy, pecially not on the hockey team. It’s a basilly a big gay hug the form of a book.

While don’t gloss over the historil homophobia and sexism, The Lady’s Gui to Celtial Mechanics manag to acknowledge and exist wh that landspe whout wallowg . Her bt iend, Simon, is gay after all.

‘I JT WANT SOMETHG THAT’S GAY AND HAPPY’: L.G.B.T.Q. ROMANCE IS BOOMG

This lovely piece of historil fictn don’t gloss over the racism, sexism, and homophobia of the time, while still managg to wre a sweet, pellg story about queer women unabashedly livg their liv and fallg love. Good reads Ratg:Vibe: royalty, enemi to lovers, fake iendship, feel good vib, royal eventsReprentatnBisexual MC, Gay mc, mlm romance, Mexin MCContent warngs:Addictn, Alhol, Anxiety, Blackmail, Cancer (mentned), Death (parental, mentned), Dg abe (mentned), Forced outgPOSITIVESEnemi to loversfeel good vibeasy to read wrg styleNEGATIVESSome people don't like how ialised the polics areSome people feel like the book is overhyped2. Low stak, slice of life, sy fantasyReprentatnBisexual, gay, Black ma characters and si characters, Content warngs:ath, grief, suici(mentned), murr (mentned), child ath (mentned), animal ath (there is a ghost dog), mental illnsPOSITIVESLight hearted romancesy vibeasy to readNEGATIVESIf you've read Hoe on the Celean Sea this is very siar4.

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

10Vibe: New York, Summer vib, young, found fayReprentatnwlw romance, bisexual MC wh anxiety, Che-Amerin love tert, Black sapphic si character, PuertoRin trans sicharacter, Gay Jewish si character, gay black si characterContent warngs:Drkg, semi-public sex, anxiety, memory loss, faial trangement, faial ath, Homophobia, the AIDS crisis, racism, childhood neglect, arsonPOSITIVESDiverse stGreat iendship groupFood imagery is excellentFunny wrgNEGATIVESSome people didn't like the pacg8. Sebastian’s team is a multi-ethnic group wh many different sexual orientatns and they almost bee a reads Ratg:Vibe: Summer vib, sports, summer mp, found fayReprentatnmlm, bisexual ma character, gay ma characters, Mlim love tertContent warngs:alhol e, bullyg, islamophobia, body shamg, body secury, one scene that ntaed the e of homophobic language. Si characters clu lbian, gay, and nonbary reprentatnContent warngs: transphobia, allns to homophobia, allns to adnamg, assorted bullyg, tfishg.

Charlie Sprg is an openly gay stunt year 10. 52Vibe: School, gmpy/sunshe, iends to loversReprentatnBlack, asexual and biromantic characters, bisexual, sapphic characterContent warngs:Emotnally abive relatnshipOne cint of a non-nsensual kissBrief referenc to past homophobia, cludg of homophobic slursBrief referenc to past bullyg, eatg disorr, OCD, Self Harm, anorexiaPOSITIVESGreat iendship groupwholome Cute romanceNEGATIVESEasy and quick to read11.

21Vibe: g of age, school, enemi to loversReprentatnwlw relatnship, bisexual, Mlim, Bengali, lbianContent warngs:Racism, homophobia (specifilly biphobia and lbophobia), Islamophobia, toxic iendship, gaslightg, and parental abandonmentPOSITIVESGreat gmpy/sunshe romanceGreat sisterly relatnshipGreat discsn around bisexualy and biphobiadbook is amazgNEGATIVESSome rears wanted a b more velopment the relatnship between Hani and her iends This post was all about lgbtq books wh happy endgs.

TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY

Homosexualy was partly crimalised 1967. Shared among gay iends, we uld celebrate our growg nfince and visibily wh new work om Alan Hollghurst and Jeate Wterson, velop a mp sensibily by quotg to each other l om EF Benson and Ronald Firbank, image that London uld bee the queer Ardia picted Armistead Mp’s Tal of the we moved towards assiatn the 1990s, Dennis Cooper’s Gee Mil novel cycle was a remr that sexualy was still transgrsive, that sire remaed a dark and disptive force.

It’s a such a tenr moment and a remr of the kdns and nnectn that is possible between all of MenzAuthor of Rabow MilkCeremoni by Essex Hemphill (Pengu)The hugely fluential gay Ain Amerin poet Essex Hemphill died of Aids-related plitns 1995, aged 38, jt one month before the lnch of protease hibors – early antiretrovirals – which might have saved or at least prolonged his life. In the wrgs and radil cema he left behd – cludg llaboratns wh Marlon Riggs Tongu Untied (1989) and Isaac Julien Lookg for Langston (1989) – he provid subsequent generatns wh evince that we lived and loved, and of our fight agast the effects of tersectg whe supremacy, racism, homophobia and heterosexism. Gay Amerin men had barely one ’s grace between the liberatn movement and the begng of the Aids crisis, which Hemphill wrote about as vally as anyone.

And if that isn’t the five gay experience, what is? The value of the novel is the way normalis the gay relatnship.