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.
Contents:
- ‘I JT WANT SOMETHG THAT’S GAY AND HAPPY’: L.G.B.T.Q. ROMANCE IS BOOMG
- THE 13 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW
‘I JT WANT SOMETHG THAT’S GAY AND HAPPY’: L.G.B.T.Q. ROMANCE IS BOOMG
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Thilen for The New York Tim‘I Jt Want Somethg That’s Gay and Happy’: L.
Gay characters were once nfed to niche markets, or to peripheral rol and tragic endgs the mastream — a tenncy that spawned the sardonic tchphrase “bury your gays. “Ctomers will e and say, ‘I jt want somethg that’s gay and happy. I jt need to know that ’s gay and slaps and they’re gog to kiss.
“The secret baby is hard to do queer fictn, ” said Jeff Adams, a romance thor and -host of the Big Gay Fictn Podst. ”For many years, dtry executiv say, the assumptn was that if you were readg a book about gay people, you yourself were gay.
THE 13 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW
“There are gog to be people who would never have picked up a gay romance or a lbian romance who may see an ad the subway, ” she said. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: ‘I Jt Want Somethg That’s Gay And Happy’.