Celebrate wh the bt LGBTQ books and books wh gay characters or om LGBTQ thors. Empower yourself by addg the spirg books to your readg list.
Contents:
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
- 60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
- TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
<p>Pl Burston is a journalist and wrer. His first novel, Shamels, was scribed by Will Self as "the sharp tth about gay London" and is now available paperback</p> * best modern gay novels *
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.
PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
* best modern gay novels *
EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN Traverse Stland’s most scenic landsp, om wt ast to east, travellg by rail 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. 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. His first novel, Shamels, was scribed by Will Self as "the sharp tth about gay London" and is now available Shamels at The Picture of Dorian Gray by Osr Wil (1891)Wil is often creded wh havg vented morn homosexualy and, Dorian Gray, he created an archetype - the betiful young man who sells his soul exchange for perpetual youth.
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Ge (1943)For many gay men, Ge reprents a self-loathg homosexualy that went out of fashn wh the birth of gay liberatn. He was certaly a psimist, and one who would have had ltle sympathy wh the feelgood, flag-wavg gay polics of today.
60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
Mp was the first wrer I ever read who prented gay characters as part of life's rich taptry, rather than as creatur habg a world all of their own. It's the happy mix of gay and straight characters that mak him so readable. Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran (1978)Set agast the smoke-filled div and gay diss of 70s New York, Dancer From The Dance is a tale of doomed queens, profsnal faggots and the lonels of liv lived out unr the revolvg glter ball.
A gay lerary classic, and rightly so. Lambasted by the gay prs for s allegedly 'negative' portrayal of London's gay muny, 's a far more hont acunt of gay life the big cy than you'll ever read any of the gay bar rags. For some strange reason, certa gay men seem to have a problem lghg at themselv.
TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
It tells the story of four generatns of an Amerin immigrant fay and the var ways which the parents pe wh a gay child the fay and the gay child p wh the sire to create a fay of his own. Load by Christos Tslkas (1997)The tale of a screwed-up, 19-year-old Greek gay lad who go lookg for kicks suburban Melbourne, this is the kd of novel that you read one or two stgs.
Two Gentlemen Sharg by William Corlett (1997)Two Gentlemen Sharg is one of the funnit gay novels I've read years. A edy of manners set a quiet village middle England, revolv around a st of lourful untry typ whose tolerance is tted by the arrival of two gay men settg up home together. Homosexualy was partly crimalised 1967.
Shared among gay iends, we uld celebrate our growg nfince and visibily wh new work om Alan Hollghurst and Jeate Wterson, velop a mp sensibily by quotg to each other l om EF Benson and Ronald Firbank, image that London uld bee the queer Ardia picted Armistead Mp’s Tal of the we moved towards assiatn the 1990s, Dennis Cooper’s Gee Mil novel cycle was a remr that sexualy was still transgrsive, that sire remaed a dark and disptive force.