Gay thor Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his tobgraphil but novel Shuggie Ba, tellg the story of a queer teenager.
Contents:
- GAY THOR WS THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR ’EMOTIVE’ BUT NOVEL ABOUT GROWG UP QUEER 1980S GLASGOW
- DOUGLAS STUART: “THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR A YOUNG GAY MAN TO TURN”
- STTISH GAY WRERS
GAY THOR WS THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR ’EMOTIVE’ BUT NOVEL ABOUT GROWG UP QUEER 1980S GLASGOW
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Gay thor Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his tobgraphil but novel Shuggie Ba, which tells the story of a queer youth livg wh his alholic mother 1980s Glasgow.
Gay thor Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for his ’emotive, nuanced’ but novel Shuggie Ba. The thor grew up Glasgow when there was ‘a real stigma’ to beg gay. Speakg to the New Yorker January, Stuart said there was “a real stigma” to beg gay the hog scheme where he grew up Glasgow.
DOUGLAS STUART: “THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR A YOUNG GAY MAN TO TURN”
On growg up gay, he said: “When I was 17, I had all the puzzle piec and no way of ftg them all together.
“Beg gay and g of age at that time meant everythg was about fillg the blanks. The ltle that I knew about gay sex felt llaged om random sourc.
STTISH GAY WRERS
It’s a fictnal, early-’90s story set a Glasgow riven by sectarian nflict, a tale of star-crossed, young, gay love – the kd he never got to experience. Growg up, homosexualy beyond his own experience felt unfaiar to Stuart.