Top 100 Gay Novels of the XXI century (932 books)

Contents:

• GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
• CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
• PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
• 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
• TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY

GAY AUTHORS BOOKS

fictn, gay, gay-fictn, gay-romance, genre-fictn, lgbtq, love, m-m, male, male-thor, men, queer, romance, transgenr. 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).

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

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. 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.

PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN 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. Told a seri of vigt pictg Jon' story as a young, Black, gay man the South, the stori are a mix of poetry and prose that cumulate to a stunng portra of how race, sex, queerns, power, and love clash and harmonize.

Abdi Nasemian is a gay Iranian-Amerin screenwrer, producer, and thor of "Like A Love Story, " a love letter to queer history that received a Stonewall Honor 2020. “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? Advertisement - Contue Readg Below16Cy of Night by John Rechy16Cy of Night by John RechyNow 11% OffCred: Grove PrsTake a trip to the unrground world of gay htlers, drag queens, and sex workers this book that sndalized the lerary world when first me out but went on to bee a mt-read.

Bgraphers have ntually bated Whman’s sexual orientatn; his poetry, particularly Leav of Grass, which faced ser censorship after s publitn, ntas several homoerotic imag, however others argue that this was untentnal. He often nied that there was any homoerotic subtext his wrg, yet those who knew him claimed that their relatnships, he was rather ank about his sexualy.

21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW

Osr Wil (who also appears on this list), after meetg Whman 1882, was adamant that Whman was gay, and even told the activist Gee Cecil Iv, “I have the kiss of Walt Whman still on my lips. Dorian Gray was origally published Lipptt’s Monthly Magaze, and drew such harsh cricism for s pictn of “immoraly, ” (one character the novel exprs a potentially romantic fatuatn for another male character) that when was later re-published as a book, Wil toned down the novel’s homoerotic subtext. Locke was gay, and acted as a mentor and role mol to several other gay members of the Harlem Renaissance, cludg Countee Cullen, who appears on this list.

TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY

García Lor was gay, and due to his cln of homoromantic them his work, he was heavily censored durg his lifetime—his work was generally banned Spa until 1953. He was a target of Spa’s Fran-era ernment; official reports scribe García Lor as a “socialist” and participant “homosexual and abnormal practic.