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However, when you buy somethg through our retail lks, we may earn an affiliate missn.</p></div></div></div><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>This year, the bate around the purpose of <a href=" target="_blank">Pri month</a> has never felt more heightened, due part to the ongog attempts to <a href=" target="_blank">roll back</a> rights for LGBTQ+ people across a number of U.S. stat. But June (and ed, any month of the year) should also serve as a time to celebrate and uplift the sheer breadth of queer creativy on display 2022—and nowhere more so than the world of lerature. Here, fd a list of all the new novels, memoirs, say llectns, and other LGBTQ+ books we’re lookg forward to spendg time wh this summer.</p><h2><em>Bad Gays: A Homosexual History</em> by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (May 31)</h2><div data-sectn-tle="product roel em 1" data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn dwZfGv product-embed product-embed--image-top product-embed--no-bottom-paddg" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Bad Gays: A Homosexual History","brand":{"name":""},"id":"62a77a8bdd01fa5519d29257","offers":[{"offerUrl":"25","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="BOOKSHOP" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hHRAkO cDOurZ bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="Image may nta: Advertisement, Poster, Brochure, Paper, and Flyer" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embed__ntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb knKBnE"><div id="62a77a8bdd01fa5519d29257" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd iTPcPG fuFCpd">Bad Gays: A Homosexual History</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embed__cta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd fkLcdW product-offer-list__offer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV erIhdg product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$25atBOOKSHOP"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="62a77a8bdd01fa5519d29257" aria-label="$25 at BOOKSHOP" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="BOOKSHOP" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ cRxydS jOzLVy button button--primary-pair product-offer__buy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN cRUqbm button__label"><span>$25</span> at BOOKSHOP</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Wh their new book, wrer Huw Lemmey and amic Ben Miller are brgg their fascatg—and very funny—ep div to the liv of the most dastardly queer people history om the podst to the page. <em>Bad Gays</em> offers a rivetg look back at historil figur whom the prent-day LGBTQ+ muny might be ls eager to reclaim, om outright murrers like Andrew Cunanan and Aileen Wuornos to more sidly sister figur like J. Edgar Hoover or Donald Tmp’s famo mentor, Roy Cohn, while also explorg how their queerns might have played a part the alienatn or eper societal rentments that sent them down the wrong path. (The ls said about “evil twks,” the better.) —Liam Hs</p><h2><em>Nevada</em> by Imogen Bnie (June 7)</h2><div data-sectn-tle="product roel em 2" data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn dwZfGv product-embed product-embed--image-top product-embed--no-bottom-paddg" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Nevada","brand":{"name":""},"id":"62a77b0c88b88c58f7d6b9f8","offers":[{"offerUrl":"16","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="BOOKSHOP" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hHRAkO cDOurZ bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="Image may nta: Advertisement, Poster, 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The book qutn is based on the life of Mohammed el Adl, E.M. Forster’s young Egyptian lover, and Kip begs to fd his grip on realy distegratg as his tert el Adl scends to obssn. As weav medatns on lonialism, spirualy, and the erotic, Santos Donadlson’s supremely stylish fever dream of a novel may lve most eply to a specific subset of the queer experience, but the bigger qutns pos about how we e to terms wh our own social and cultural inti make feel surprisgly universal. —L.H.</p><h2><em>The Kgdom of Sand</em> by Andrew Holleran (June 7)</h2><div data-sectn-tle="product roel em 4" data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn dwZfGv product-embed product-embed--image-top product-embed--no-bottom-paddg" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"The Kgdom of Sand","brand":{"name":""},"id":"62a77b9aa4fdc0db4b35e7","offers":[{"offerUrl":"26","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="BOOKSHOP" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hHRAkO cDOurZ bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="Image may nta: Advertisement, Poster, Brochure, Paper, and Flyer" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embed__ntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb knKBnE"><div id="62a77b9aa4fdc0db4b35e7" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd iTPcPG fuFCpd">The Kgdom of Sand</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embed__cta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd fkLcdW product-offer-list__offer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV erIhdg product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$26atBOOKSHOP"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="62a77b9aa4fdc0db4b35e7" aria-label="$26 at BOOKSHOP" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="BOOKSHOP" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ cRxydS jOzLVy button button--primary-pair product-offer__buy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN cRUqbm button__label"><span>$26</span> at BOOKSHOP</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>One of gay lerature’s most teemed tans, Andrew Holleran, returns this month wh his first novel 16 years, <em>The Kgdom of Sand</em>. While Holleran’s cult classic, <em>Dancer om the Dance,</em> is remembered for the illic thrills of s hedonistic roller-aster ri through gay life 1970s New York (durg the ee-spired moment after Stonewall and before the AIDS crisis), <em>The Kgdom of Sand,</em> Holleran turns his gimlet eye to the aftermath of that perd. 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gay summer books

From the return of a legendary gay novelist to a blazg new memoir about parenthood, the are the queer books you should be readg this Pri Month—and beyond.

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10 QUEER ROMANCE NOVELS TO READ ON THE GAY BEACH THIS SUMMER

* gay summer books *

Set agast the backdrop of Ana Bryant’s “Save the Children” mpaign and the gay rights activism of the 1970s, this book is queer g-of-age story, a celebratn of iendship, and a summer romance all rolled to one. Tryg to figure out how to be a gay femist, she tak a summer ternship wh her femist idol, a whe lbian wrer livg Portland. Fun, lighthearted, body-posive, gay summer romance anyone?

Narrators clu a gay artist, a former ia member, a pregnant woman, a stgglg novelist, a medil tern, and an engeerg stunt.

Now, David Santos Donaldson’s but novel, gay Black Brish thor Kip stggl to plete his own novel about Forster’s secret affair wh a young Egyptian tram driver, Mohammed, the early 20th Century. The namels gay narrator, strand small-town Florida after the ath of his mother, drifts along, observg the quotidian aspects of his quiet, lonely life.

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. * gay summer books *

There’s also his iendship wh a much olr gay man named Earl, whose health is failg. Gay uple su fertily clic bee their child is a girl when they wanted boys. Here, fd a list of all the new novels, memoirs, say llectns, and other LGBTQ+ books we’re lookg forward to spendg time wh this Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (May 31)Bad Gays: A Homosexual HistoryWh their new book, wrer Huw Lemmey and amic Ben Miller are brgg their fascatg—and very funny—ep div to the liv of the most dastardly queer people history om the podst to the page.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY SUMMER BOOKS

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Here, fd a list of all the new novels, memoirs, say llectns, and other LGBTQ+ books we’re lookg forward to spendg time wh this summer.</p><h2><em>Bad Gays: A Homosexual History</em> by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (May 31)</h2><div data-sectn-tle="product roel em 1" data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn dwZfGv product-embed product-embed--image-top product-embed--no-bottom-paddg" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Bad Gays: A Homosexual History","brand":{"name":""},"id":"62a77a8bdd01fa5519d29257","offers":[{"offerUrl":"25","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="BOOKSHOP" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hHRAkO cDOurZ bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="Image may nta: Advertisement, Poster, Brochure, Paper, and Flyer" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embed__ntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb knKBnE"><div id="62a77a8bdd01fa5519d29257" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd iTPcPG fuFCpd">Bad Gays: A Homosexual History</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embed__cta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd fkLcdW product-offer-list__offer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV erIhdg product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$25atBOOKSHOP"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="62a77a8bdd01fa5519d29257" aria-label="$25 at BOOKSHOP" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="BOOKSHOP" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ cRxydS jOzLVy button button--primary-pair product-offer__buy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN cRUqbm button__label"><span>$25</span> at BOOKSHOP</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Wh their new book, wrer Huw Lemmey and amic Ben Miller are brgg their fascatg—and very funny—ep div to the liv of the most dastardly queer people history om the podst to the page. <em>Bad Gays</em> offers a rivetg look back at historil figur whom the prent-day LGBTQ+ muny might be ls eager to reclaim, om outright murrers like Andrew Cunanan and Aileen Wuornos to more sidly sister figur like J. 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While Holleran’s cult classic, <em>Dancer om the Dance,</em> is remembered for the illic thrills of s hedonistic roller-aster ri through gay life 1970s New York (durg the ee-spired moment after Stonewall and before the AIDS crisis), <em>The Kgdom of Sand,</em> Holleran turns his gimlet eye to the aftermath of that perd. 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