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. 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.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
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.
GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
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. Numero anthologi of short gay fictn clu The Faber Book of Gay Short Fictn (1991), Pengu Book of Gay Short Stori (1994), Pengu Book of Lbian Short Stori (1994), the seri Men on Men (begng 1988) and Women on Women (begng 1990), and even an anthology of gay and lbian science fictn, Kdred Spirs (1984). The Lambda awards (Lbian, Gay Male, Bisexual, and Transgenr Awards) have swelled to 22 tegori, cludg story llectns and anthologi, poetry, memoirs, cultural studi, public policy, law, history, spirualy, and genr studi.
The awards have gone not only to exclively homosexual or transgenr wrers but also to those who w awards both gay and straight tegori, such as Jefey Eugenis, the Pulzer Prize–wng novelist and short story wrer.