Gay Lerature: Poetry and Prose | Oxford Rearch Encyclopedia of Lerature

Contents:

• CHAPTER 11 - GAY AND LBIAN LERARY CULTURE THE 1950S
• 21 CLASSIC WORKS OF GAY LERATURE
• CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
• 20 CLASSIC WORKS OF GAY LERATURE
• VTAGE GAY FICTN
• GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE

CHAPTER 11 - GAY AND LBIAN LERARY CULTURE THE 1950S

”For many years, as gay rights activists have fought for equal opportuny, lbian and gay wrers have penned works that provi a richer unrstandg of the joys and challeng of their liv. 21 classic works of gay lerature:Jam Baldw: “Gvanni’s Room” -- a man disvers his sexual inty ParisDjuna Barn: “Nightwood” -- early postmorn fictn of women Paris loveAlison Bechl: “Fun Home: A Fay Tragiic” -- a graphic novel memoir of her troubled gay father and her own g out, recently adapted as a Tony award-wng Broadway showRa Mae Brown: “Rubyu Jungle” -- the 1973 tale of a young woman’s g of ageWilliam S.

21 CLASSIC WORKS OF GAY LERATURE

Burroughs: “Naked Lunch” -- the landmark experimental novel’s gay sex scen ma the foc of a breakthrough obsceny trialRichard Elmann: “Osr Wil” -- bgraphy of the lively wrer whose gay relatnship got him sent to prison for “gross cency”E.

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

Forster: “Mrice” -- this love story, wrten when homosexualy was illegal England, was published posthumolyRadclyffe Hall: “The Well of Lonels” -- groundbreakg lbian novel of the 1920sE. Lynn Harris: “Invisible Life” -- an Ain Amerin law stunt’s sexual disveryAllen Gsberg: “Howl” -- the poem was subject to an obsceny trial part bee of s explic gay themJean Ge: “Our Lady of the Flowers” -- published 1944, portrays sexual adventur Paris’ crimal unrgroundAnthony M.

------------Armistead Mp: “Tal of the Cy” ma character Michael Tolliver’s life portrayed over a seri of novels set gay-iendly San FrancisPl Mote: “Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir” -- a breathtakg yet matter-of-fact, day-by-day acunt of the ath of his longtime partner om AIDSAnnie Proulx: “Brokeback Mounta” a story of wboys love, om the llectn “Close Range, ” which beme the Osr-wng filmJohn Rechy: “Cy of Night” -- a novel of gay street htlers the 1950sSappho: “The Complete Poems” -- women’s love poetry om the 7th century BCHubert Selby Jr. Supreme a day that will fd many gay rights activists celebratg, we look to the books that have provid a richer unrstandg of the joys and challeng particular to gay life. 20 classic works of gay lerature‘Gvanni’s Room’ by Jam Baldw -- a man disvers his sexual inty Paris’Nightwood’ by Djuna Barn -- early postmorn fictn of women Paris love’Fun Home: A Fay Tragiic’ by Alison Bechl -- a graphic novel memoir of her troubled gay father and her own g out’Rubyu Jungle’ by Ra Mae Brown -- the 1973 tale of a young woman’s g of age’Naked Lunch’ by William S.

Burroughs -- the foc of a breakthrough obsceny trial, a landmark experimental novel ‘Osr Wil’ by Richard Elmann -- b of the lively wrer whose gay relatnship got him sent to prison for “gross cency” ’Mrice’ by E. Forster -- a love story wrten when homosexualy was illegal England; published posthumoly’The Well of Lonels’ by Radclyffe Hall -- groundbreakg lbian novel of the 1920s’Invisible Life’ by E.

20 CLASSIC WORKS OF GAY LERATURE

Lynn Harris -- an Ain Amerin law stunt’s sexual disvery’Howl’ by Allen Gsberg -- the poem was subject to an obsceny trial part bee of s explic gay them ‘Our Lady of the Flowers’ by Jean Ge -- published 1944, sexual adventur Paris’ crimal unrground’Amerin Studi’ by Mark Marlis -- an agg man looks back; won the LA Tim book prize for first fictn ‘Tal of the Cy’ by Armistead Mp -- San Francis, the stori about Michael Tolliver ntued five sequels’Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir’ by Pl Mote.

VTAGE GAY FICTN

’Brokeback Mounta’ by Annie Proulx -- a story of wboys love, om the llectn ‘Close Range’’Cy of Night’ by John Rechy -- a novel of gay street htlers the 1950s ‘The Complete Poems’ by Sappho -- a woman’s love poetry om the seventh century BC’The Queen Is Dead’ by Hubert Selby Jr.

GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE

But this narrow range—books set between 1950 and 1969—showed thors navigatg a world jt before the gay rights movement gaed strength, and imagg different kds of liv for their LGBTQ characters. But the relatnship between the gay love terts—Sammy, one of the ma characters, and Tracy, the rad voice of the ic book character Sammy helped create—is a tragic and val part of this sweepg historil Price of Saltby Patricia Highsmh. The origal 1964 Kirk review of the book not, “the homosexual has never appeared more wretchedly alone than he do here through his own admissns”— a lonely and sad lens, but also a betiful of Nightby John Rechy.

This highly stylized novel—set mid-20th-century Greenwich Village—is a morn-day retellg of an 1846 Balzac novel, La Coe Bette, which had a distct homoerotic subtext. Schulman’s takeoff is more straightforward, wh a middle-aged Bette and her gay neighbor Earl vtigatg the new paths toward eedom that their liv might take a new era of civil to go eper to the history of LGBTQ activism? Shared among gay iends, we uld celebrate our growg nfince and visibily wh new work om Alan Hollghurst and Jeate Wterson, velop a mp sensibily by quotg to each other l om EF Benson and Ronald Firbank, image that London uld bee the queer Ardia picted Armistead Mp’s Tal of the we moved towards assiatn the 1990s, Dennis Cooper’s Gee Mil novel cycle was a remr that sexualy was still transgrsive, that sire remaed a dark and disptive force.

It’s a such a tenr moment and a remr of the kdns and nnectn that is possible between all of MenzAuthor of Rabow MilkCeremoni by Essex Hemphill (Pengu)The hugely fluential gay Ain Amerin poet Essex Hemphill died of Aids-related plitns 1995, aged 38, jt one month before the lnch of protease hibors – early antiretrovirals – which might have saved or at least prolonged his life. In the wrgs and radil cema he left behd – cludg llaboratns wh Marlon Riggs Tongu Untied (1989) and Isaac Julien Lookg for Langston (1989) – he provid subsequent generatns wh evince that we lived and loved, and of our fight agast the effects of tersectg whe supremacy, racism, homophobia and heterosexism.