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.
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From gay ghosts and nonbary astronts to stirrg poems and movg memoirs, this was a fantastic year for queer lerature. * gay authors 2022 *
‘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. In his wry acceptance speech—preced by an troductn om filmmaker John Waters who lled Whe a “lerary top”—Whe discsed the stggle of havg tried to publish gay fictn pre-Stonewall and even many s later; how his work was rejected for beg both too explic and too subtle, statg that the “faiar is more threateng than the exotic”; and how “only” took him half a century to go om one of the most maligned wrers Amerin letters to beg honored.
This we know: Jeanna Kadlec has long been a champn for other queer wrers, a steadfast challenger to the many iqui of the media world, and a lightful live-tweeter of films filled wh gay subtext. ” From the creator and star of the Netflix edy Special—adapted om the thor’s memoir about beg a gay man wh cerebral palsy— the story of a televisn wrer livg his supposed bt life (the aforementned betiful man wh the betiful penis, a job for which he mak “a dumb amount of money”) who’s nohels unable to settle to ntentment, a book about the pfalls and pratfalls of sirg external validatn and the importance of self-acceptance. The thor of the semal queer classic Dancer om the Dance returns wh a wi-eyed and wise novel about the ecstasi and agoni of beg an agg gay—how disorientg and vast the chasm is between feelg young and lookg young, the pas of a still-puerile sire vers the ach of a body cle.
Set an alternate versn of Ameri which the weddg-dtrial plex has bee (even more) ranged—like, Midsommar-level ranged—Laskey’s eic send novel centers on Rob, a gay amic whose tranged straight iend asks her to be the maid of honor for her upg nuptials. High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir by Edgar Gomez (Jan. From his uncle’s ckfightg rg Niragua to gay bars and bedrooms, Gomez’s lnhearted memoir chronicl g of age as a queer, Latx person, wrtlg wh a mdset that at once embrac and rejects the trappgs of machismo, navigatg love and lt the time of PrEP, and learng how to refe (and reclaim) pri.