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

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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! 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.

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It was the first piece of lerary fictn I ever read that picted queer characters (gay wboys! Both love song to and crique of Appalachia, the majory of the stori this but llectn take place the mountas of Wt Virgia, where ’s not easy to be gay. The geo, poignant tle story explor g of age as a young gay boy the mountas, a queer love story that ends not tragedy but wh a gasp of hope.

Grimsley wr about the realy of homophobia and vlence, but also about the bety and tenrns and hols of a place, of young love: “They step to rt a ltle way si the fort unr a gkgo tree, s goln leav showerg round them as they get their breath. Rafael, a young gay, HIV+ man, returns om San Francis, where he’s lost so many iends, to take re of his father.

This lh, poetic, genero, philosophil novel, told om multiple characters’ pots of view, both gay and straight, exam the love and flaws and fivens of fay—whether blogil or chosen: “fay has no fixed boundari but is eternally changg, a river whose banks are formed by all those to whom she choos to bd herself wh the joys and burns of love.

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