Classic Gay Male Lerature (207 books)

Contents:

• GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
• 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
• THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
• GAY AUTHORS
• GAY BOOKS
• CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

GAY AUTHORS BOOKS

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. 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).

Michael ChabonChabon has long had a gay followg due to his 1988 novel The Mysteri of Ptsburgh, which featur a protagonist who has both homosexual and heterosexual enunters. Many of his later works feature gay characters, though their sexualy is ambient rather than LorLor’s wrg reflects her experience as a Black lbian and a mother.

25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

The closens of the iendship between the two young men hts at homosexualy.

Wgh’s own homosexual relatnships lend crence to that terpretatn. Christopher IsherwoodIsherwood, 1966Camera Prs/Pictorial ParaIsherwood’s 1964 novel A Sgle Man follows a gay man grievg for his lover over the urse of a day.

THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS

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. Gay Authors Books. (shelved 2 tim as gay-thors).

“What's like for a young teen of barely 14, tryg to pe wh all the normal problems of adolcence, and wrtlg wh the realizatn that he's gay on top of all that? Be that trans, tersex, asexual, gay, or a betiful mix of all of those.

In a highly stctured society, Mrice is a nventnal young man almost every way, “steppg to the niche that England had prepared for him”: except that his is homosexual. “This is the story of Pl, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerlears ri Harleys, the homeg queen ed to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infe Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance. “Baldw’s hntg and ntroversial send novel is his most staed treatment of sexualy, and a classic of gay lerature.

GAY AUTHORS

In Iran, homosexualy may be a crime, but to be a man trapped a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accsible. Mishima’s protagonist disvers that he is beg a homosexual pole, post-war Japan. She’s terng wh the thor of her favore book: Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate thory on femism, women’s bodi, and other gay-soundg stuff.

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay. From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivisn Florida where neighbors nform, pete, and spy on each other, Gay livers a wry, betiful, hntg visn of morn Ameri remiscent of Merrt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.

“From the thor of the prize-wng llectn Quarante, an sightful, pellg but novel set ral Ameri and India the 1980s and `90s, part g-of-age story about a gay Indian Amerin boy, part fay saga about an immigrant fay’s stggl each to fd a sense of belongg, inty, and hope.

GAY BOOKS

Several of Brant’s (The Mohawk Trail) stori nsir the need to e to terms wh ath: ‘This Place, ’ a medice man whose ‘good medice’ rang om butter tarts and old Hank Williams songs to a snakk and chantg helps a gay man afflicted wh AIDS fd the urage to ‘see ath g and n to meet .

This ternatnally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the ey of Js Goldberg, a mascule girl growg up the ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ McCarthy era and g out as a young butch lbian the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-llar town. “In this grippg memoir of the AIDS years (1981–1996), Sarah Schulman rells how much of the rebell queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay nservative spokpeople and mastream nsumerism.

It was not until llege that Alison, who had recently e out as a lbian, disvered that her father was also gay. When Garrard was a neteen-year-old llege stunt, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changg cisn: eher agree to attend a church-supported nversn therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexualy; or risk losg fay, iends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an stutnalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urg and stronger his fah God for his bsh wh s.

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

An Unrground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew Nazi Berl by Gad Beck. That he was a homosexual and a teenage lear the ristance and yet survived is amazg.

“Wrten om a ntemporary Cherokee, Queer and mixed-race experience, the poems nont a legacy of land-theft, genoci, and forced removal, and rist ongog attacks on both Indigeno and Gay/Lbian/Bisexual/Transgenr muni. In Be Hard, poet Jt Ch explor his inty as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. Moreover, gay thors have ed their craft to challenge societal norms.