Rememberg the Great Gay Amerin Wrer, Henry Jam, on His 180th Birthday - The WOW Report

Contents:

• 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
• REMEMBERG THE GREAT GAY AMERIN WRER, HENRY JAM, ON HIS 180TH BIRTHDAY
• ROSS GAY: INCG JOY (IN-PERSON)
• GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
• GAY AUTHORS BOOKS

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. 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.

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. 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. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon.

REMEMBERG THE GREAT GAY AMERIN WRER, HENRY JAM, ON HIS 180TH BIRTHDAY

Jam’s sexualy remaed a subject of bate for s bee of his famo iendships wh femal; bee many crics were unable to read his gayns to his work, and bee lerary circl, while he was acknowledged to be homosexual his terts, the mon opn was that he was basilly asexual or celibate. He may have remaed the closet due to that pky Osr Wil, whose flamboyancy he abhorred, and whose sndalo trial drove most of gay society back to hidg their lov and liv. Poor Jam, all ught up crazy nflictg cultural nsiratns: an Amerin livg Europe, a gay man livg a straight world, a closeted gay man; he was able to transform his personal difficulti to novels that give the sence of an important time of change society and lerature a most challengg way.

ROSS GAY: INCG JOY (IN-PERSON)

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. Jo for an eveng wh Ross Gay, New York Tim btsellg thor of The Book of Delights, as he reads om and discs his new book Incg Joy, an timate and electrifyg say llectn.

From garners offerg their abundance to the nvivialy of pickup basketball gam, om public displays of skateboardg to private heartach, such as rg for his dyg father, Gay vtigat how joy and sorrow are extribly lked. “My hunch is that joy, emergg om our mon sorrow—which do not necsarily mean we have the same sorrows, but that we, mon, sorrow—might draw together, ” Gay ponrs.

Lookg clear-eyed at the jtice, polil polarizatn, and stctn of the natural world, Gay shows how we might rist, how the possibily of joy is available to if we seek the thgs our liv that prepare the ground for that joy. ROSS GAY is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg, wner of the PEN Amerin Lerary Jean Ste Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. From joyful stori about queer Black girls to memoirs of what means to be Black and gay, the thors prent credible and affirmg stori to read now or anytime.

GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE

You may regnize Baldw as an fluential wrer om the Civil Rights era, but he was also eply passnate and outspoken about discrimatn agast gay and lbian people as an openly gay man himself.

GAY AUTHORS BOOKS

And I’m really sorry if I’m havg movie spoilers my answers would happen if “Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ” two of the vampir met high school and had a gay romance? In this story:Jacksonville JaguarsJaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen beme the first publicly-known male ach Amerin men’s profsnal sports to e out as gay Thursday.Maxen spoke wh Outsports to share his journey and why he’s choosg to e out publicly.“I don’t want to feel like I have to thk about anymore,” Maxen said.

I want to be vol support of people livg how they want to live, but I also want to jt live and not feel fear about how people will react.”Maxen, who has been wh his partner Nick for over two years, exprsed that the ntued support om the people around him helped him feel fortable to share his news.“It wasn’t until recently—and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner—that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story,” Maxen said.Maxen also noted that he reached out to Carl Nassib, who is the only known gay NFL player the league right now, back Feb. Bisexualy has been viewed wh gay studi as distct om homosexualy, and bisexuals have found themselv exclud om gay events and anizatns although a great many “gay ins” om Socrat to Shakpeare to Osr Wil were married and fathered children.

” Further, even the word “homosexual” is ght wh problems: is often believed, rrectly, that origated as a medi-scientific term to classify homosexualy as a disease.