'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

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• 10 OF THE BT MORN NOVELS WRTEN BY LGBTQ WRERS LGBTQ HEADG | © DANIELLE BRISENO/FLICKR JW MCCORMACK 01 DECEMBER 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT NO LIST OF LGBTQ WRERS N CLAIM TO BE EXHSTIVE, AS THE HISTORY OF QUEER WRG IS THE STORY OF LERATURE SELF, OM THE VERY FIRST NOVEL, SATYRIN BY PETRONI, BEG A MASTERPIECE OF GAY THEM. SUCCSORS CLU EVERYONE OM JEAN GE AND WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS TO ARMISTEAD MP’S TAL OF THE CY AND E.M. FORSTER, WHOSE MRICE HAD TO WA TO BE PUBLISHED POSTHUMOLY 1971. BUT EVEN THE MORN VANGUARD OF LGBTQ THORS HAS HAD TO NTEND WH CHANGG SOCIAL MOR, CENSORSHIP, AND EVEN ATH UNTRI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS STILL ILLEGAL OR OTHERWISE DANGERO. THE NTEMPORARY WORKS GIVE A TASTE OF THE RICHNS AND SOCIAL RELEVANCE OF MORN LGBTQ LERATURE BY WRERS WHO HAVE BORNE THEIR SOULS, SOMETIM AT GREAT PERSONAL RISK, RULTG ONE OF THE MOST IMMEDIATE BODI OF LERATURE THE WORLD TODAY. VIEW ALL TRIPS INFILS BY ABLLAH TAïA A LEADG WRER OF THE ARAB WORLD, MOROCN-BORN ABLLAH TAïA HAS CHALLENGED THE PREJUDIC OF HIS HOME UNTRY AS BOTH WRER AND FILM DIRECTOR. INFILS SCRIB THE GRADUAL RADILIZATN OF A PROSTUTE’S SON WHO FDS LOVE THE MLIM WORLD. FOR THE TIME BEG, MAY WELL BE HIS MASTERPIECE, PECIALLY IMPRSIVE GIVEN THAT SAME-SEX LOVE HAS BEEN ILLEGAL MOROC SCE 1962. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MEXI CROATIA TURKEY INDIA JAPAN MOROC ECUADOR SPA ICELAND EGYPT BALI GREECE THAILAND SOUTH AI COURTY OF SEVEN STORI PRS THE WALK- CLOSET BY ABDI NAZEMIAN BORN IRAN, ADBI NAZEMIAN NOW WORKS AS A SCREENWRER L.A., BUT NTU TO RETURN TO PERSIAN THEM, AS THE LAMBDA LERARY AWARD-WNG THE WALK- CLOSET OM 2015, WHICH A WOMAN POS AS HER GAY BT IEND’S GIRLIEND. ONE OF THE FIRST NOVELS OM IRAN TO AL EXPLICLY WH GAY THEM, IS A TREASURE OF A NOVEL AND A TTAMENT TO THE URAGE OF S THOR, WHOSE HOME UNTRY ALS HARSHLY WH S HOMOSEXUAL POPULATN, THE VERY EXISTENCE OF WHICH WAS NIED BY PRINT MAHMOUD AHMADEJAD 2007. COURTY OF CURTIS BROWN DIGAL A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD BY MICHAEL CUNNGHAM MA TO A FILM WH COL FERRELL 2004, A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD IS THE PRECSOR OF MICHAEL CUNNGHAM’S PULZER PRIZE-WNG THE HOURS. IT ALS WH AN AD-HOC FAY PRISED OF BOBBY AND JONATHAN, TWO CLEVELAND OH-BORN MEN, AND CLARE, THE MOTHER OF BOBBY’S CHILD. ALL THREE CI TO LIVE AS A THREOME A UNTRY HOME OUTSI OF NEW YORK, CHALLENGG TRADNAL NOTNS OF THE FAY THROUGH THEIR LOVG, POLYAMORO RELATNSHIP. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP COURTY OF PIDOR FUN HOME BY ALISON BECHL AN TOBGRAPHIL GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT WON ALISON BECHL A MACARTHUR GENI GRANT AND THE BASIS OF A BROADWAY MIL, FUN HOME IS THE STORY OF THE CHILDREN OF A FUNERAL DIRECTOR FATHER, HIMSELF A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL, AND THE YOUNG ALISON’S OWN STGGL WH SEXUAL INTY. IF THAT’S NOT ENOUGH, BECHL IS ALSO THE ORIGATOR OF THE “BECHL TT,” APPLIED TO WORKS OF FICTN WHERE TWO WOMEN TALK ABOUT SOMETHG OTHER THAN A MAN. COURTY OF MARER BOOKS MUNDO CEL BY LUIS NEGRóN LUIS NEGRóN’S STORY LLECTN MUNDO CEL ADDRS THE TIGHT-KN WORLD OF PUERTO RIN GAY CULTURE. TRANSGRSIVE AND SPARSE, S STORI ADD UP TO A POSE PORTRA OF AN UNRREPRENTED BUT VIBRANT MOGRAPHIC AND THEIR STGGL WH PREJUDICE. NEGRóN HAS GONE ON TO NTRIBUTE TO THE VISIBILY OF QUEERNS HIS HOME UNTRY AS -EDOR OF THE ANTHOLOGY LOS OTROS CUERPOS. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. COURTY OF SEVEN STORI PRS FGERSMH BY SARAH WATERS SARAH WATERS HAS DONE AN ENORMO SERVICE TO LERATURE, GAY AND OTHERWISE, WH HER EXPLORATNS OF LBIAN LOVE VICTORIAN SOCIETY. PERHAPS THE BT OF THE IS FGERSMH, A RIVETG HISTORIL ADVENTURE NOVEL OF TWO WOMEN WHO REBEL AGAST THEIR STRICT SOCIETY, MEMORABLY ADAPTED TO THE SOUTH KOREAN FEATURE FILM THE HANDMAIN 2016. COURTY OF RIVERHEAD BOOKS EXQUISE CORPSE BY POPPY Z. BRE PROOF THAT QUEER NOVELS KNOW NO GENRE NSTRATS, TRANSMAN BILLY MART WROTE THE EROTIC HORROR NOVEL EXQUISE CORPSE AS POPPY Z. BRE. THE STORY OF A SERIAL KILLER REMBLG REAL-LIFE KILLER JEFEY DAHMER WHO FALLS LOVE WH AN HIV-POSIVE RAD HOSE. CHALLENGG AND VLENT, AL EXPLICLY WH THE QUTNS OF VICTIMHOOD RAISED BY SAN SONTAG HER LANDMARK AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS. COURTY OF TOUCHSTONE ORANG ARE NOT THE ONLY F BY JEATE WTERSON IT’S HARD TO CHOOSE A FAVORE AMONG JEATE WTERSON’S ENERGIZG OVRE, EQUENTLY NCERNED WH LBIAN ROMANCE, BUT HER FIRST, THE TOBGRAPHIL NOVEL ORANG ARE NOT THE ONLY F, GETS HIGH MARKS FOR S PORTRA OF A RELIGLY-RAISED YOUNG GIRL’S FIRST BSH WH LOVE AND HER REBELLN AGAST THE MUNY THAT THREATENS TO SUFFOTE BOTH HER ARTISTIC AMBNS—THROUGH METHODS WHICH CLU EXORCISM—AND HER YEARNGS FOR OTHER WOMEN. COURTY OF GROVE PRS VALENCIA BY MICHELLE TEA MICHELLE TEA IS A PROLIFIC AND BELOVED THOR WHO HAS WRTEN EXTENSIVELY ON BLUE-LLAR QUEER THEM. BUT HER BREAKTHROUGH, ARGUABLY, MAY BE 2000’S VALENCIA, WHICH BRGS TO LIFE SAN FRANCIS’S THRIVG GAY SUBCULTURE, PICTG SADO-MASOCHISM AND G-OF-AGE STORI THROUGH TWENTY-ONE VIGTE-LIKE CHAPTERS WHERE WE MEET SUCH CHARACTERS AS THE TROSPECTIVE POET WILLA AND IRIS, A SOUTHERN-RAISED BUTCH ADAPTG TO LIFE THE CY. COURTY OF SEAL PRS SPHX BY ANNE GARRéTA ORIGALLY PUBLISHED FRANCE 1986 AND TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH 2015, SPHX IS A RAVISHG EXPERIMENTAL NOVEL WRTEN WH AN GEN SELF-IMPOSED RTRAT: THE GENR OF THE PRCIPAL CHARACTERS IS NEVER DISCLOSED, REFERRED TO ONLY AS “I” AND A***. THE RULT IS A TOUR FORCE OF STYLE AND AN EXQUISE, MOVG ROMANCE STORY. COURTY OF DEEP VELLUM PUBLISHG VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

10 OF THE BT MORN NOVELS WRTEN BY LGBTQ WRERS LGBTQ HEADG | © DANIELLE BRISENO/FLICKR JW MCCORMACK 01 DECEMBER 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT NO LIST OF LGBTQ WRERS N CLAIM TO BE EXHSTIVE, AS THE HISTORY OF QUEER WRG IS THE STORY OF LERATURE SELF, OM THE VERY FIRST NOVEL, SATYRIN BY PETRONI, BEG A MASTERPIECE OF GAY THEM. SUCCSORS CLU EVERYONE OM JEAN GE AND WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS TO ARMISTEAD MP’S TAL OF THE CY AND E.M. FORSTER, WHOSE MRICE HAD TO WA TO BE PUBLISHED POSTHUMOLY 1971. BUT EVEN THE MORN VANGUARD OF LGBTQ THORS HAS HAD TO NTEND WH CHANGG SOCIAL MOR, CENSORSHIP, AND EVEN ATH UNTRI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS STILL ILLEGAL OR OTHERWISE DANGERO. THE NTEMPORARY WORKS GIVE A TASTE OF THE RICHNS AND SOCIAL RELEVANCE OF MORN LGBTQ LERATURE BY WRERS WHO HAVE BORNE THEIR SOULS, SOMETIM AT GREAT PERSONAL RISK, RULTG ONE OF THE MOST IMMEDIATE BODI OF LERATURE THE WORLD TODAY. VIEW ALL TRIPS INFILS BY ABLLAH TAïA A LEADG WRER OF THE ARAB WORLD, MOROCN-BORN ABLLAH TAïA HAS CHALLENGED THE PREJUDIC OF HIS HOME UNTRY AS BOTH WRER AND FILM DIRECTOR. INFILS SCRIB THE GRADUAL RADILIZATN OF A PROSTUTE’S SON WHO FDS LOVE THE MLIM WORLD. FOR THE TIME BEG, MAY WELL BE HIS MASTERPIECE, PECIALLY IMPRSIVE GIVEN THAT SAME-SEX LOVE HAS BEEN ILLEGAL MOROC SCE 1962. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MEXI CROATIA TURKEY INDIA JAPAN MOROC ECUADOR SPA ICELAND EGYPT BALI GREECE THAILAND SOUTH AI COURTY OF SEVEN STORI PRS THE WALK- CLOSET BY ABDI NAZEMIAN BORN IRAN, ADBI NAZEMIAN NOW WORKS AS A SCREENWRER L.A., BUT NTU TO RETURN TO PERSIAN THEM, AS THE LAMBDA LERARY AWARD-WNG THE WALK- CLOSET OM 2015, WHICH A WOMAN POS AS HER GAY BT IEND’S GIRLIEND. ONE OF THE FIRST NOVELS OM IRAN TO AL EXPLICLY WH GAY THEM, IS A TREASURE OF A NOVEL AND A TTAMENT TO THE URAGE OF S THOR, WHOSE HOME UNTRY ALS HARSHLY WH S HOMOSEXUAL POPULATN, THE VERY EXISTENCE OF WHICH WAS NIED BY PRINT MAHMOUD AHMADEJAD 2007. COURTY OF CURTIS BROWN DIGAL A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD BY MICHAEL CUNNGHAM MA TO A FILM WH COL FERRELL 2004, A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD IS THE PRECSOR OF MICHAEL CUNNGHAM’S PULZER PRIZE-WNG THE HOURS. IT ALS WH AN AD-HOC FAY PRISED OF BOBBY AND JONATHAN, TWO CLEVELAND OH-BORN MEN, AND CLARE, THE MOTHER OF BOBBY’S CHILD. ALL THREE CI TO LIVE AS A THREOME A UNTRY HOME OUTSI OF NEW YORK, CHALLENGG TRADNAL NOTNS OF THE FAY THROUGH THEIR LOVG, POLYAMORO RELATNSHIP. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP COURTY OF PIDOR FUN HOME BY ALISON BECHL AN TOBGRAPHIL GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT WON ALISON BECHL A MACARTHUR GENI GRANT AND THE BASIS OF A BROADWAY MIL, FUN HOME IS THE STORY OF THE CHILDREN OF A FUNERAL DIRECTOR FATHER, HIMSELF A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL, AND THE YOUNG ALISON’S OWN STGGL WH SEXUAL INTY. IF THAT’S NOT ENOUGH, BECHL IS ALSO THE ORIGATOR OF THE “BECHL TT,” APPLIED TO WORKS OF FICTN WHERE TWO WOMEN TALK ABOUT SOMETHG OTHER THAN A MAN. COURTY OF MARER BOOKS MUNDO CEL BY LUIS NEGRóN LUIS NEGRóN’S STORY LLECTN MUNDO CEL ADDRS THE TIGHT-KN WORLD OF PUERTO RIN GAY CULTURE. TRANSGRSIVE AND SPARSE, S STORI ADD UP TO A POSE PORTRA OF AN UNRREPRENTED BUT VIBRANT MOGRAPHIC AND THEIR STGGL WH PREJUDICE. NEGRóN HAS GONE ON TO NTRIBUTE TO THE VISIBILY OF QUEERNS HIS HOME UNTRY AS -EDOR OF THE ANTHOLOGY LOS OTROS CUERPOS. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. COURTY OF SEVEN STORI PRS FGERSMH BY SARAH WATERS SARAH WATERS HAS DONE AN ENORMO SERVICE TO LERATURE, GAY AND OTHERWISE, WH HER EXPLORATNS OF LBIAN LOVE VICTORIAN SOCIETY. PERHAPS THE BT OF THE IS FGERSMH, A RIVETG HISTORIL ADVENTURE NOVEL OF TWO WOMEN WHO REBEL AGAST THEIR STRICT SOCIETY, MEMORABLY ADAPTED TO THE SOUTH KOREAN FEATURE FILM THE HANDMAIN 2016. COURTY OF RIVERHEAD BOOKS EXQUISE CORPSE BY POPPY Z. BRE PROOF THAT QUEER NOVELS KNOW NO GENRE NSTRATS, TRANSMAN BILLY MART WROTE THE EROTIC HORROR NOVEL EXQUISE CORPSE AS POPPY Z. BRE. THE STORY OF A SERIAL KILLER REMBLG REAL-LIFE KILLER JEFEY DAHMER WHO FALLS LOVE WH AN HIV-POSIVE RAD HOSE. CHALLENGG AND VLENT, AL EXPLICLY WH THE QUTNS OF VICTIMHOOD RAISED BY SAN SONTAG HER LANDMARK AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS. COURTY OF TOUCHSTONE ORANG ARE NOT THE ONLY F BY JEATE WTERSON IT’S HARD TO CHOOSE A FAVORE AMONG JEATE WTERSON’S ENERGIZG OVRE, EQUENTLY NCERNED WH LBIAN ROMANCE, BUT HER FIRST, THE TOBGRAPHIL NOVEL ORANG ARE NOT THE ONLY F, GETS HIGH MARKS FOR S PORTRA OF A RELIGLY-RAISED YOUNG GIRL’S FIRST BSH WH LOVE AND HER REBELLN AGAST THE MUNY THAT THREATENS TO SUFFOTE BOTH HER ARTISTIC AMBNS—THROUGH METHODS WHICH CLU EXORCISM—AND HER YEARNGS FOR OTHER WOMEN. COURTY OF GROVE PRS VALENCIA BY MICHELLE TEA MICHELLE TEA IS A PROLIFIC AND BELOVED THOR WHO HAS WRTEN EXTENSIVELY ON BLUE-LLAR QUEER THEM. BUT HER BREAKTHROUGH, ARGUABLY, MAY BE 2000’S VALENCIA, WHICH BRGS TO LIFE SAN FRANCIS’S THRIVG GAY SUBCULTURE, PICTG SADO-MASOCHISM AND G-OF-AGE STORI THROUGH TWENTY-ONE VIGTE-LIKE CHAPTERS WHERE WE MEET SUCH CHARACTERS AS THE TROSPECTIVE POET WILLA AND IRIS, A SOUTHERN-RAISED BUTCH ADAPTG TO LIFE THE CY. COURTY OF SEAL PRS SPHX BY ANNE GARRéTA ORIGALLY PUBLISHED FRANCE 1986 AND TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH 2015, SPHX IS A RAVISHG EXPERIMENTAL NOVEL WRTEN WH AN GEN SELF-IMPOSED RTRAT: THE GENR OF THE PRCIPAL CHARACTERS IS NEVER DISCLOSED, REFERRED TO ONLY AS “I” AND A***. THE RULT IS A TOUR FORCE OF STYLE AND AN EXQUISE, MOVG ROMANCE STORY. COURTY OF DEEP VELLUM PUBLISHG VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

No list of LGBTQ wrers n claim to be exhstive, as the history of queer wrg is the story of lerature self, om the very first novel, Satyrin by Petroni, beg a masterpiece of gay them. But even the morn vanguard of LGBTQ thors has had to ntend wh changg social mor, censorship, and even ath untri where homosexualy is still illegal or otherwise dangero.

A., but ntu to return to Persian them, as the Lambda Lerary Award-wng The Walk- Closet om 2015, which a woman pos as her gay bt iend’s girliend. One of the first novels om Iran to al explicly wh gay them, is a treasure of a novel and a ttament to the urage of s thor, whose home untry als harshly wh s homosexual populatn, the very existence of which was nied by Print Mahmoud Ahmadejad 2007. View Trip Fun Home by Alison Bechl An tobgraphil graphic novel that won Alison Bechl a MacArthur Geni Grant and the basis of a Broadway mil, Fun Home is the story of the children of a funeral director father, himself a closeted homosexual, and the young Alison’s own stggl wh sexual inty.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Mundo Cel by Luis Negrón Luis Negrón’s story llectn Mundo Cel addrs the tight-kn world of Puerto Rin gay culture. Fgersmh by Sarah Waters Sarah Waters has done an enormo service to lerature, gay and otherwise, wh her exploratns of lbian love Victorian society.

But her breakthrough, arguably, may be 2000’s Valencia, which brgs to life San Francis’s thrivg gay subculture, pictg sado-masochism and g-of-age stori through twenty-one vigte-like chapters where we meet such characters as the trospective poet Willa and Iris, a southern-raised butch adaptg to life the cy. Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad. "There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety.

" Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. "Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life. Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy.