Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn.
Contents:
- 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
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
‘The Black Flamgo’ by Dean Atta, published by HachetteBt: Comg-of-age tale Ratg: 9/10Told verse, this betiful g-of-age story foc on Felix, a Jamain-Greek Cyprt teenager, g to terms wh his inty as a gay man.
In ls than 90 pag, Louis scrib the sual vlence, poverty, homophobia and shame that blight both father and son, while layg full rponsibily at the feet of a polil ele whose polici mean the difference between life and ath for society’s most ’s no cince that the book’s tle lacks a qutn mark; Louis has receipts and nam nam.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
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.