<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>
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13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
Here are the bt LGBTQ books wh gay characters or by thors who intify as LGBTQ+. Fd romance, spirg nonfictn and YA reads for adults and teens. * best gay fiction novels *
Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad. "There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety.
" Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. "Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life.
PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
* best gay fiction novels *
Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy. 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.