Wh the creasg impact of the gay rights movement and acceptance of gays mastream society, gay studi and gay lerature are emergg as rpected fields. Defg gay lerature is sometim difficult, given the equent vague and subtle referenc to gay characters or them found works. Not all gay lerature als specifilly wh sex;…
Contents:
- CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
* gay in english literature *
The wrer Christopher Isherwood said bt when he explaed that beg gay do not volve the act of sex; stead, is the proclivy or the abily to fall love wh another member of the same genr. Further, gay lerature also n share tras of other thematic clters of lerature, such as Femist/Femism, Native Amerin, and Ain-Amerin and such genr as tective short fictn, the ghost story, and the edy.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
Dpe the much-heated bate over William Shakpeare’s sexualy, many crics believe his work—ltered wh cross-drsg characters and same-sex affectnate them—strik a fe gay or bisexual rd.
GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
The gay liv of the lerary giants Virgia Woolf and Gert Ste were wily known lerary circl, yet until recently scholarship about their sexualy or any subtle gay them their work has been mimal. At midcentury psychologil associatns told Amerins that homosexualy was abnormal behavr, thereby ntradictg the Ksey Report, which dited that nearly 10 percent of Amerins were homosexual. Although did not ga the momentum of the civil rights and women’s rights movements of the time, this marked the begng of an age when gays stopped hidg unrground and beme advot for their rights.