Specializg gay tl, gothic and horror novels, as well as lerary fictn, they found Valanurt Books 2005 to rtore many of the works to a new generatns of rears. It's an imprsive and fascatg list. I got so lost , and had so much fun lookg around at all the great books I've never even heard of, I jt had to terview the guys.
Contents:
- CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
- EARLY GAY LERATURE BOOKS
- GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
- EARLY GAY LERATURE REDISVERED
CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
Books shelved as early-gay-lerature: Brian Wtby by Forrt Reid, The Carnivoro Lamb by Agt Gomez-Ars, and Auba by Kenh Mart. * early gay novels *
Woods, a Lambda :Lerary Award nomee for her novel Thgs to Do When You're Goth the Country, says Baldw succeed at "blurrg the l of hero and villa and brgg the plexy of human nature to horrifyg foc." Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like."The Price of Salt's dizzygly erotilly charged prose also telegraphed her signature sense of an omo "menace" ( this se, the threat of beg ught or found out jt as the Red Sre h the Uned Stat). Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly 1971.In a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.
The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his homosexualy.But Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. The thor of Night Drop, Marshall Thornton lled the novel "the origal gay romance." A note found on Forster's mancript for Mrice, which was disvered tucked a drawer, read "Publishable, but worth ?" Ismail Merchant and Jam Ivory adapted the novel to the big screen a geo film starrg Jam Wilby, Hugh Grant, and Rupert Grav.
The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo. The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 1891.Dorian's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text 2011.Even the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici.
EARLY GAY LERATURE BOOKS
* early gay novels *
Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy. Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect. Wonrful book," gay refugee activist and lumnist Danny Ramadan rav about the global-md story.The book unpacks the emotnal life of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian civil war who begs a gut-wrenchg affair wh a fellow refugee.
GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
The girls are om different ethnic muni, forcg them to face not only the taboos of beg queer but the prejudic of survivg a natn that is eatg self alive."A great rellectn of everythg anyone would say Nigeria agast homosexualy g the fense of relign," explas David Nnanna Ikpo, the Nigerian thor of Fimisile Forever.
EARLY GAY LERATURE REDISVERED
Dalloway, a novel to which Cunngham pays homage; mid-20th-century Los Angel, hoewife Lra Brown, disntented wh her life, nonts her attractn to women; and 1990s New York Cy, Clarissa Vghan, who is lbian, plans a party for her bt iend, wrer Richard Brown, a gay man dyg of AIDS.Cunngham weav their stori together seamlsly and movgly a novel that is servedly regnized as a morn classic.The 2002 film adaptatn, wrten by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry, received several Osr nomatns, and Nile Kidman won Bt Actrs for her portrayal of Woolf.
In 2015, when the novel was published, reviewer and thor Garth Greenwell clared The Atlantic, "A Ltle Life: The Great Gay Novel Might Be Here." Hanya Yanagihara's story of four iends -- Ju, Mallm, JB, and Willem -- lasts over 700 pag as you wns the evolutn of iendship and love between the men who met llege. In honor of LGBTQ History Month, celebrated every October, here are books that aim to shed light on and clarify signifint historil moments that rmed and shaped the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights movement.