Great Wrers Who Were Gay | Current Lerature

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• 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
• GREAT WRERS WHO WERE GAY
• 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?
• GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
• SO FAMO AND SO GAY

25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Their varly humane and hilar portras of queerns and same-sex love and lt—and the everyday liv of those who experience them—are illumatg, whether you’re gay, straight, or somewhere between.

GREAT WRERS WHO WERE GAY

Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021).

Armistead MpMp’s effervcent novels about gay life San Francis, startg wh Tal of the Cy (1978), brought to life a i foreign to much of the JordanJordan primarily wrote through the lens of bisexualy and racial jtice. SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.

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?

The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo.

The book is remembered today for this legacy as well as for var them -- Hollywood's glass closet, beg gay the ary, the poisono effects of homophobia on society -- that still reverberate today.

GAY AUTHORS BOOKS

The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici. "This epic chronicle of gay culture the Amerin sixti is as far-reachg as is important, givg a glimpse to inty and motive, " affirmed SJ Sdu, the thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li.

SO FAMO AND SO GAY

The 1982 book by Edmund Whe, which begs wh the first sexual enunter of a 15-year-old boy, is based on his own experienc g to terms wh his gay inty as a youth the Midwtern Uned Stat. Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy. Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect.

Wonrful book, " gay refugee activist and lumnist Danny Ramadan rav about the global-md book unpacks the emotnal life of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian civil war who begs a gut-wrenchg affair wh a fellow refugee. Dalloway, a novel to which Cunngham pays homage; mid-20th-century Los Angel, hoewife Lra Brown, disntented wh her life, nonts her attractn to women; and 1990s New York Cy, Clarissa Vghan, who is lbian, plans a party for her bt iend, wrer Richard Brown, a gay man dyg of AIDS. The great wrers who were gay they serve as unjt "spegoats" of a time when spe the dangerons of certa ias, the possibily of highlightg and spirg future generatns was much greater.