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• THE NEW PENGU BOOK OF GAY SHORT STORI
• THE PENGU BOOK OF GAY SHORT STORI

THE NEW PENGU BOOK OF GAY SHORT STORI

The diversy - and uny - of gay love and experience the twentieth century is celebrated this acclaimed anthology, which clus twenty-one stori om the origal llectn, published 1994, together wh fifteen new stori. Wrers clu both men and women, gay and straight, amongst them: John Updike, Edna O'Brien, E. Reviewed the Uned Stat on June 24, 2013This is a big fat wonrful llectn of stori by gays or havg to do wh gays some way, and I enjoyed .

I love the fact that not all of the wrers are gay themselv and not all of them are well-known; fact, I've never heard of most of the wrers, and often their stori stck me as more powerful than those of the well known.

Some of the AIDS-themed stori were so sad, reflective of such a difficult era and the many loss suffered the gay panmic. Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 31, 2005This anthology offers a rnupia of gay wrers--some notor and others undisvered. We are offered different perspectiv on the gay experience, and the stori transgrs not only time perds, but age groups as well.

THE PENGU BOOK OF GAY SHORT STORI

I would remend this anthology for those who are new to gay lerature. Reviewed the Uned Stat on July 1, 2001This is an excellent llectn of gay short fictn, many om the pre-Stonewall perd of obscury. A llectn of fictn by and about gay men featur origal stori om Larry Kramer, Edmund Whe, Christopher Coe, Michael Cunngham, and other wrers and explor the tragedi and triumphs of AIDS.

GenrLGBTFictnShort StoriGayQueerAnthologiHistoril Fictn 656 pag, PaperbackFirst published January 14, 1994About the thorLeavt is a graduate of Yale Universy and a profsor at the Universy of Florida, where he is the -director of the creative wrg program. Leavt, who is openly gay, has equently explored gay issu his work. The word "gay" as we know formerly meant happy, pleasg, optimistic, fun-encsted, joy-bedbed, that sort of thg, as the very first le of "Island of Dreams" by The Sprgfields (1963):"I wanred the streets and the gay crowd plac"Then the early to mid 1960s the new meang bubbled up om the homosexual mi-mon, maybe as a replacement for "queer" which really did need replacg.

But now my dghter Geia (aged 13) tells me that one very mon phrase ed at school is "that's really gay" or "that's so gay" - and the tend meang is nothg to do wh homosexualy, bee now jt means "that's really bbish" or "that's so feeble".