13 very gay and very good books you should read this Pri Month | Mashable

Contents:

• HOW ‘GREEN BOOK’ GIV SHORT SHRIFT TO A GAY LIFE
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• THE IN AND OUTS OF NARRATG A GAY ROMANCE AUDBOOK
• GAY NOTEBOOKS
• A GAY NOTEBOOKS & WRG PADS

HOW ‘GREEN BOOK’ GIV SHORT SHRIFT TO A GAY LIFE

The scene as a shock: Shirley has been largely solo most of the film, and there is no ditn until then that he is eher gay (ed, there is mentn of a past marriage to a woman) or bisexual.

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

Tony dit he’s acceptg of gay people om his time workg New York nightclubs.

A few weeks ago Jsie Smollett, a star of the Fox show “Empire” and a sger-songwrer, was hospalized after he was attacked Chigo by two men shoutg racial and homophobic slurs at him, acrdg to a police statement. (Ined other lbian, gay and trans people of lor face siar threats. And by not explorg Shirley’s lived experience, the film allows to move past the threat that he, Smollett and others aren’t many black and gay characters popular films and shows today.

Wh that drama wng the Amy Award for bt picture jt two years ago (and wh Ali wng bt supportg actor for his role as a sympathetic adult a gay black boy’s life), “Green Book” feels like a Shirley’s fay has been outspoken about how the film mischaracteriz him and his relatnship to them. As a wrer of gay mystery and gay romance, I’ve been a part of this rise, and today I’m terviewg three narrators of gay fictn about their experience this segment.

THE IN AND OUTS OF NARRATG A GAY ROMANCE AUDBOOK

My guts are multi-award wners Joel Llie and Greg Tremblay, both wners of the Goodreads Rear’s Choice award for Bt Narrator M/M Romance, and the narrator of my Have Body, Will Guard gay adventure-romance seri, Stan Jenson, a lifelong profsnal actor.

For Greg, about 40-50% of those books are gay, while for Joel about two-thirds of those books feature gay protagonists. He was my first choice to narrate Mahu, the first of my gay mystery seri, bee of the multu of island voic. The unique challenge for narrators gay fictn is that there are often two male protagonists who need distct voic.

GAY NOTEBOOKS

Almost all of my big breaks om publishers have e first the form of somethg wh gay ntent. “It was sarstic, actn-filled, steamy, and sweet…and allowed me to show immediately that I wasn’t gog to be locked to a sgle ia of what the “GAY CHARACTER” sounds like. Stan agre, “When I began, I mostly went for history or tnal books bee I have an announcer’s voice, but eventually dawned on me that I would have an edge performg gay fictn.

Plenty of actors all fields succsfully play gay characters, but much as our gaydar n seek out kdred souls on the street, I thk the gay ear n hear a gay voice. Sparks’ new statement arriv four days after the publitn of an article on The Daily Beast webse that quoted and/or reprted old emails wrten by Sparks that suggted anti-gay bias.

A GAY NOTEBOOKS & WRG PADS

In today’s statement, Sparks, whose The Notebook currently is beg adapted as a Broadway mil, produced by Kev McCollum (Avenue Q, Rent, In the Heights) and Kurt Dtsch, affirmed his “unequivol” support for “gay marriage, gay adoptn, and equal employment rights and would never want to disurage any young person or adult om embracg who they are.

I am an unequivol supporter of gay marriage, gay adoptn, and equal employment rights and would never want to disurage any young person or adult om embracg who they are. Siarly, when I referred to a prr headmaster addrsg the prence of gay stunts “quietly and wonrfully, ” I meant that he supported them a straightforward, unambiguo way – NOT that he any way enuraged stunts to be silent about their genr inty or sexual orientatn. Acrdg to the article, wrten by Tarpley Ht, Sparks (a tstee of the school he -found 2006) “chastised” Benjam for ( Sparks’ own words) promotg “an agenda that striv to make homosexualy open and accepted.

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