Here are the bt LGBTQ books wh gay characters or by thors who intify as LGBTQ+. Fd romance, spirg nonfictn and YA reads for adults and teens.
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13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
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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 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+. As the end of his life draws near, Jab hop to the right the wrongs that ed his relatnship wh his gay son, Isaac.
"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.
GAY BOOKS
When Garrard Conley is outed by his parents, they make him attend a 12-step nversn therapy program to “cure” him of his homosexualy. "The Guncle" by Steven RowleyOnce-famo s star Patrick is a proud Guncle (Gay Uncle Patrick, actually). 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).
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. 2022-releas, achillean, adult-fictn, bisexual, gay, lbian, lgbtq, mlm, nonfictn, queer, sapphic, transgenr, wlw, ya-fictn.
All that to say: Zach Zimmerman’s but vers all those bas and more as they wre about their evolutn om “nservative, Southern Baptist rnivore” to “gay vegetarian atheist.
CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
In this heartfelt but memoir, Greg Marshall tells his story of g out twice: first, as a gay man; send, as a man wh cerebral palsy—a diagnosis that his fay kept om him sce birth. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below113th Balloon by Mark Bibbs113th Balloon by Mark BibbsDedited part to a lover who died of AIDS, Bibbs's heart-wrenchg (yet still wistfully humoro) memoir--verse lays bare the large and small griefs of gay life the shadow of an epimic: "Strange to look valy for onelf history/and stranger to realize/that there is a chance/one might fd onelf there. Here, this equently breathtakg novel--stori, he follows a namels Amerin narrator walkg among the shadows of Bulgaria's unrground gay scene search of “the key to the latch of the self.
" Advertisement - Contue Readg Below15Gay Like Me: A Father Wr to His Son by Richie Jackson 15Gay Like Me: A Father Wr to His Son by Richie Jackson Cred: amazonThe producer of Harvey Fierste's Torch Song on Broadway and TV shows like Nurse Jackie reviss the events of Stonewall, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the fight for marriage equaly to offer his son, who me out as gay at 18, an enarg and practil gui to navigatg the bety and dangers of queer life Tmp's Ameri. Classic, well wrten books that feature gay men or gay upl as the protagonists.