<p>Pl Burston is a journalist and wrer. His first novel, Shamels, was scribed by Will Self as "the sharp tth about gay London" and is now available paperback</p>
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PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
* modern gay writers *
No list of LGBTQ wrers n claim to be exhstive, as the history of queer wrg is the story of lerature self, om the very first novel, Satyrin by Petroni, beg a masterpiece of gay them. But even the morn vanguard of LGBTQ thors has had to ntend wh changg social mor, censorship, and even ath untri where homosexualy is still illegal or otherwise dangero.
A., but ntu to return to Persian them, as the Lambda Lerary Award-wng The Walk- Closet om 2015, which a woman pos as her gay bt iend’s girliend.
One of the first novels om Iran to al explicly wh gay them, is a treasure of a novel and a ttament to the urage of s thor, whose home untry als harshly wh s homosexual populatn, the very existence of which was nied by Print Mahmoud Ahmadejad 2007. View Trip Fun Home by Alison Bechl An tobgraphil graphic novel that won Alison Bechl a MacArthur Geni Grant and the basis of a Broadway mil, Fun Home is the story of the children of a funeral director father, himself a closeted homosexual, and the young Alison’s own stggl wh sexual inty. Mundo Cel by Luis Negrón Luis Negrón’s story llectn Mundo Cel addrs the tight-kn world of Puerto Rin gay culture.
GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
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. * modern gay writers *
Fgersmh by Sarah Waters Sarah Waters has done an enormo service to lerature, gay and otherwise, wh her exploratns of lbian love Victorian society. But her breakthrough, arguably, may be 2000’s Valencia, which brgs to life San Francis’s thrivg gay subculture, pictg sado-masochism and g-of-age stori through twenty-one vigte-like chapters where we meet such characters as the trospective poet Willa and Iris, a southern-raised butch adaptg to life the cy.