From the return of a legendary gay novelist to a blazg new memoir about parenthood, the are the queer books you should be readg this Pri Month—and beyond.
Contents:
- “RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- MIRIAM MARGOLY: ‘I NEVER HAD ANY SHAME ABOUT BEG GAY’
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
- GAY VAGUE
“RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
* gay vogue *
Ined, his ovre reads like a gay g-of-age story: there are the nods to boyhood and g out the trilogy of Blue Neighborhood mic vios; reflectns on the nocence of early sexual experienc “Seventeen” and “Bloom”; he pots to the body-image challeng of existg as a gay man “STUD”; to heartbreak “The Good Si” and the ache for love of “Angel Baby”; and now the wds of liberatn, sexual eedom, and nfince “Rh. ” There’s also his film work, as the angsty gay teenager Boy Erased, or the high schooler who fds out he’s been exposed to HIV Three Months. Judgg by “Rh, ” wh s betifully grty Gordon von Steer-directed mic vio (cludg an already Twter-viral keg stand and Sivan dancg around a jockstrap), he may very well be up celebrate the release of “Rh, ” and the announcement of his third stud album, Vogue spoke to Sivan about gayns, partyg, queer muny, and the importance of mic vios.
Photo: Stuart Weff / Courty of Universal Mic GroupVogue: I have to start by askg about the name of the song, which many of on the gay rner of the ter are assumg is a reference to poppers, given the well-known brand also named Sivan: I mean, sure. Sure, I’m gay and I’m sgg about sex, but ’s not like I’m tryg to make a Pri anthem.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Read about key moments the history of the LGBTQ fight for rights Ameri, om the first gay rights group to prent day. * gay vogue *
We n be gay after the month of June. Here, fd a list of all the new novels, memoirs, say llectns, and other LGBTQ+ books we’re lookg forward to spendg time wh this Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (May 31)Bad Gays: A Homosexual HistoryWh their new book, wrer Huw Lemmey and amic Ben Miller are brgg their fascatg—and very funny—ep div to the liv of the most dastardly queer people history om the podst to the page. Bad Gays offers a rivetg look back at historil figur whom the prent-day LGBTQ+ muny might be ls eager to reclaim, om outright murrers like Andrew Cunanan and Aileen Wuornos to more sidly sister figur like J.
MIRIAM MARGOLY: ‘I NEVER HAD ANY SHAME ABOUT BEG GAY’
Explore gay Mosw wh Mr Hudson. The bt of Mosw for the discerng gay man. Where to sleep, eat, drk, shop and play. * gay vogue *
Kgdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran (June 7)One of gay lerature’s most teemed tans, Andrew Holleran, returns this month wh his first novel 16 years, The Kgdom of Sand.
While Holleran’s cult classic, Dancer om the Dance, is remembered for the illic thrills of s hedonistic roller-aster ri through gay life 1970s New York (durg the ee-spired moment after Stonewall and before the AIDS crisis), The Kgdom of Sand, Holleran turns his gimlet eye to the aftermath of that perd. The book offers a poignant visn of iendship between the narrator—a gay man his 40s who moved om New York back to his hometown Florida to re for his dyg parents, where he has remaed ever sce—and a man 20 or so years his senr lled Earl, wh whom he shar a strange and unlikely bond; s grapplgs wh lonels and mortaly emergg as somethg both hntg and ultimately betiful.
Jt by Lookg at Him is wrten om the perspective of a gay, disabled TV wrer livg Los Angel who appears, om the outsi at least, to have all—a succsful show, a cent e, a lovg boyiend—but ep down feels stuck, attemptg to overe his imposter syndrome and low self-teem through liberal amounts of alhol and sual sex. A roller-aster ri through the seedier rners of gay London follows, as Don’s journey of self-disvery ultimately turns self-stctive.
GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
By Conner IvJuly 3, 2022“In New York, Beg Gay Be a Total Non-Issue. I gus lookg back at my childhood was evable that I would one day be drawn to fashn as a for unrstandg that I was gay, wasn’t really somethg that I figured out until my late teens, but then lookg back at my childhood all ma sense, and I realized that I had actually had csh on many of my bt iends. Even ocsnally after I began datg men, I ntued to sleep wh women off and on, and while fely gay, I am someone for whom sex is an exprsn of affectn and love.
GAY MOSW · CY GUI
I was very, very lucky: Comg to terms wh my sexualy was a smooth transn for me, and I owe that to the stggle that all of the gay men and women who me before me had to endure. My parents were very acceptg, and New York, beg gay or bisexual was nsired kd of ol—or at least was wh my circle of iends. This, of urse, all changed when AIDS began to ravage the gay is amazg how far we have e our culture.
GAY VAGUE
He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.