It’s time fictn reflected gay married life | Books | The Guardian

Contents:

• IT’S TIME FICTN REFLECTED GAY MARRIED LIFE
• WRER GAY CROSSWORD CLUE
• HAS THE GAY MARRIAGE SLIPPERY SLOPE STARTED? SLATE WRER CALLS FOR LEGALIZG POLYGAMY

IT’S TIME FICTN REFLECTED GAY MARRIED LIFE

The first book I ever read pictg a gay relatnship was Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys. And I need to know what would gay lerature I read the years after that never que answered my qutns. Edmund Whe’s brilliant A Boy’s Own Story, for all s many characters, still strik me as one of the lonelit books I’ve read, s narrator rovg through a rapid seri of sexually charged relatnships, the effect as evotive of adolcence general as is of a particular slice of gay my experience, gay men often have a different, more open relatnship to sex om straight people.

WRER GAY CROSSWORD CLUE

”But the tremendo swell that phed the marriage equaly movement forward is evince that many gay men want more than a life of sexual eedom and excement – we want love and mment and stabily, even if we may not all want them the particular forms our heterosexual iends have gay lerature I have read that exam the trici of longer gay relatnships almost always ends tragedy and a premature mise – for the relatnship self, and often for the characters volved. In At Swim, Two Boys, O’Neill’s Jim and Doyler, ught up the Easter Risg, are torn apart by forc of history beyond homophobia.

HAS THE GAY MARRIAGE SLIPPERY SLOPE STARTED? SLATE WRER CALLS FOR LEGALIZG POLYGAMY

It’s about homophobia; ’s about a social suatn. ”The trajectori all make sense given that, for most of the 20th century, exposure as gay meant losg your job, home and fay, meant time prison or a sanatorium. This is what I wanted to see for gay characters the books I live now an unprecented era of history, the first time gay people n to some extent live openly, and love each other for s, and build fai together, whout the threat of state reprisal if not whout the threat of danger.