In 1983, The Bookseller magaze - the tra publitn for the UK book dtry - clared that the 1980s would be 'the of the gay novel'. Certaly, the early years of that there was nsirable evince to support the ia of a burgeong gay and lbian book market. Edmund Whe's Boys Own Story,
Contents:
- HOW THE EARLY ’80S CHANGED GAY WRG FOREVER
- GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
- GAY 80S BOOKS
- 1980S. ‘THE OF THE GAY NOVEL’
HOW THE EARLY ’80S CHANGED GAY WRG FOREVER
Books shelved as gay-80s: Angels Ameri by Tony Khner, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Pl Mote, The Other Eighti: A Secret History of Ameri... * 1980's gay novel *
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT‘Dancer From the Dance, ’ ‘Angels Ameri’ — and the that brought queer lerature to the GoldANDREW HOLLERAN’S 1978 novel, “Dancer From the Dance, ” was not the first gay novel I read. It was, however, the first gay novel everybody any rate, was the first gay novel every gay man I knew seemed to have read.
GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
It was the first Big Gay Lerary Sensatn. Although “Dancer From the Dance” centers on two gay men named Malone and Sutherland, ’s as much a story about New York Cy’s gay life the 1970s as is the story of Malone’s and Sutherland’s own liv.
GAY 80S BOOKS
Spoiler alert:Both Malone and Sutherland e to bad (if ambiguo) ends, the general tradn of the time, whereby gay characters were allowed onto the b of narrative as long as they were thrown off aga before the b reached s said, Malone and Sutherland float away as much as they expire — their partur are more like that of Ophelia “Hamlet” than they are like that of Tennsee Williams’s Sebastian Venable, hacked to ath and eaten by village children. No one, however, argued about the book’s fily to the reckls, rto life lived certa (whe, well-favored) circl on Pla Gay.
1980S. ‘THE OF THE GAY NOVEL’
Three years later, 1981, the first report of Gay-Related Immune Deficiency AIDS epimic didn’t mean the end of dancg, or sex, or dgs. Gay people and traveno dg ers — those most at risk at the time — had been emed dilemma of the self-hatg homo lookg for love all the wrong plac paled — paled for some of — the face of a plague about which no one power seemed to give a damn.