Stori by, for, and/or about Gay and Bi Young People.
Contents:
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
* short gay fiction *
The Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Mistn of Cameron Post have been turned to blockbter films, and jt about every YA agent out there has “own-voic LGBTQ+ stori” on their mancript wish list.However, don’t make the mistake of thkg there’s anythg close to a surpl of the stori!
FEATURED SHORT STORI FICTN
Gay Erotic Stori. Black Like Us: a Century of Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Ain Amerin Fictn ed.
My novel The Prettit Star, set 1986, asks what happens when a gay, HIV+ man go back to the small town where he grew up. I wanted to wre a story that sh a light on an overlooked part of the AIDS epimic, those gay men who returned to the fai and muni that had rejected them, and on an tersectn we don’t see enough lerature: the queer and the ral.
Like many queer kids, I learned about the world, and about myself, through books, gleang unspoken possibili about sexualy, genr, and masculy, om characters like tomboy Sut and her “cur” iend Dill to the homoerotic greasers The Outsirs. It was the first piece of lerary fictn I ever read that picted queer characters (gay wboys!