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Contents:
- A LTLE LIFE: THE GREAT GAY NOVEL MIGHT BE HERE
- 5 CELEBRI MOURED TO BE GAY WHO ARE ACTUALLY STRAIGHT
- JUDGE GREG MATHIS HAD A MSAGE OF LOVE FOR HIS CLOSETED GAY SON ON HIS NEW SHOW
A LTLE LIFE: THE GREAT GAY NOVEL MIGHT BE HERE
Hanya Yanagihara’s novel is an astonishg and amb chronicle of queer life a 2013 say for Salon, the culture wrer Daniel D’Addar lamented the absence of a big, amb novel about gay life Ameri today. ” D’Addar surveyed a number of proment gay wrers about his this, and the next day Tyler Coat summarized their views for Flavorwire a piece tled “The Great Gay Novel is Never Gog to Happen. ” But no verage of the book I’ve seen has discsed as a novel fundamentally about gay liv—as the most amb chronicle of the social and emotnal liv of gay men to have emerged for many book follows a group of four men—Ju, Willem, JB, and Mallm—over three s of iendship, om their years as llege roommat to the heights of profsnal succs.
5 CELEBRI MOURED TO BE GAY WHO ARE ACTUALLY STRAIGHT
Of the novel’s ma characters, only JB unambiguoly embodi an immediately regnizable and unambivalent gay inty. ”The plexy of the characters’ relatnships to sexual inty is one way Yanagihara elevat them om mere “wdow drsg, ” and I spect ’s one reason A Ltle Life hasn’t been regnized as a book fundamentally about gay male experience. Another is that rears have e to expect such books to be wrten by gay men and to be at least plsibly nfsnal.
JUDGE GREG MATHIS HAD A MSAGE OF LOVE FOR HIS CLOSETED GAY SON ON HIS NEW SHOW
From Edmund Whe’s A Boy’s Own Story (1982) to Jt Torr’ We the Animals (2011), novels about gay men and their liv have often been more or ls easily mappable onto the thor’s bgraphy.