After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year.
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Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn. * good queer books to read *
The story of a romance between an Amerin and an Italian man livg Paris, Gvanni’s Room is an all-time classic of gay lerature and a document of the love, longg, and vlence that happens at the margs of society.
Christopher Isherwood’s A Sgle Man was noteworthy when was published 1962 for s earnt, tthful, heartbreakg narrative about one day the life of a middle-aged gay English profsor, followg the ath of his partner. A landmark moment not jt the history of gay wrg or playwrg but the history of Amerin lerature, perd, Tony Khner’s Angels Ameri—the odyssey of a group of characters tryg to survive and grow durg the AIDS crisis and the Reagan admistratn—holds a world of sight, pathos, humor, and grief every sgle le. For gay people, for straight people, for prize-wng hors.
Two prisoners—one gay and transfemme wh a penchant for the athetic, the other straight, mascule, and stnchly Marxist—talk a cell about movi and about each other. Not sce Ge had gayns so totally termed the formal movements of a novel, and not even Ge’s queeny protagonists uld be as memorable as Puig’s Mola.