Fd out the 25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About 1. Osr Wil 2. Jam Baldw 3. Tennsee Williams 4. Gore Vidal 5. Edmund Whe.
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25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
‘The Black Flamgo’ by Dean Atta, published by HachetteBt: Comg-of-age tale Ratg: 9/10Told verse, this betiful g-of-age story foc on Felix, a Jamain-Greek Cyprt teenager, g to terms wh his inty as a gay man.
In ls than 90 pag, Louis scrib the sual vlence, poverty, homophobia and shame that blight both father and son, while layg full rponsibily at the feet of a polil ele whose polici mean the difference between life and ath for society’s most ’s no cince that the book’s tle lacks a qutn mark; Louis has receipts and nam nam. Homosexualy was partly crimalised 1967.
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