Celebrate wh the bt LGBTQ books and books wh gay characters or om LGBTQ thors. Empower yourself by addg the spirg books to your readg list.
Contents:
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
- THE 20 BT GAY ROMANCE BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ ALREADY BY NOW!
- THE 10 BT GAY FANTASY BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW!
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
* gay novels must read *
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below16Cy of Night by John Rechy16Cy of Night by John RechyNow 11% OffCred: Grove PrsTake a trip to the unrground world of gay htlers, drag queens, and sex workers this book that sndalized the lerary world when first me out but went on to bee a mt-read. And while you n always zy up on the uch and prs play on a movie about queer love, the LGBTQ books will take thgs one step further.All of the classics, bt-sellers and new releas on this list put gay characters at the heart of the story — or at the very least, are wrten by thors who intify as LGBTQ+.
Cght between love and lt, David mt nont the li he’s told himself before he los everythg — and everyone — who means somethg to him."How We Fight for Our Liv" by Saeed JonPoet Saeed Jon’ g-of-age memoir is a rehgly hont look at the realy of beg a Black gay man the south. When Garrard Conley is outed by his parents, they make him attend a 12-step nversn therapy program to “cure” him of his homosexualy.
21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
Disver the top 20 mt-read bt gay romance books. From obscure novels to morn btsellers, the books offer a powerful reprentatn of the gay experience. * gay novels must read *
This revelatn leads him down a path of fivens wh himself, God and his loved on."The Guncle" by Steven RowleyOnce-famo s star Patrick is a proud Guncle (Gay Uncle Patrick, actually).
THE 20 BT GAY ROMANCE BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ ALREADY BY NOW!
You won’t fd a buttoned-up gay love story the pag: Purnell unearths the dysfunctn of Black, broke and queer men fallg and out of love (or, well, lt)."Juliet Tak a Breath" by Gabby RiveraThis YA novel sparkl wh humor and an origal voice.
THE 10 BT GAY FANTASY BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW!
In this royal rom-, the prce of England and heir to the throne is gay, and longs for the son of the first woman print of the U.S. SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.
The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. Alan Hollghurst famoly qutned the future of the gay novel this year, which is strikg sce he's often viewed as helpg make queer books accsible to a mastream dience.
Hollghurst set his pen on the sexual hypocrisi of homophobic policians, many of whom had their own discretns behd closed doors. The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo. The book is remembered today for this legacy as well as for var them -- Hollywood's glass closet, beg gay the ary, the poisono effects of homophobia on society -- that still reverberate today.