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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.