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HEARTBREAKG GAY ROMANCE
Heartbreakg Gay Romance (238 books),. Heartbreakg Gay Romance. Gerard Manley Hopks, one of the prcipal “ghosts” hntg the book, was a prit-poet, and a closeted gay man.
I had never known that Hopks was gay until I read his diari, and I saw those pag the lengths he went to to hi himself, to atone for his “s. MW: As I was readg, I began thkg about the pictns we often see media about the tragic gay love story, a trope that predispos unhappy and trmatic endgs upon s gay characters. SH: Part of me, the early stag of wrg this book, was ncerned wh wrg another “sad” gay story.
NOT ANOTHER TRAGIC GAY LOVE STORY
MW: Toward the end of the book, you wre about how you took on the homophobia you faced and ma your own.
Touchg on them of homosexualy, the stori were wrten by Prot durg the 1890s, when he was his 20s and puttg together the llectn of poems and short stori that would bee Plaisirs et l jours (Pleasur and Days). He cid not to clu GuiFamo books that were only found or published posthumolyShowMrice by EM ForsterForster’s tale of same-sex love early 20th-century England, which follows a young gay man om his schooldays, through universy and beyond, was origally wrten 1913-14 and was regularly revised durg his lifetime. But although he showed to iends, cludg Christopher Isherwood, he didn’t try to get published, believg that he uld never get away wh a gay love story wh a happy endg.
“Prot is his 20s, and most of the texts evoke the awarens of his homosexualy, a darkly tragic way, that of a curse … In different ways, the young wrer transpos, sometim barely, the timate diary he uld not wre. ”Prot never publicly acknowledged his homosexualy, gog so far as to fight a duel wh a reviewer who had suggted, accurately, that he was gay.