Browse through and read gay themed short stori stori and books
Contents:
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- FEATURED SHORT STORI STORI
- FEATURED STORI
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
* gay themed stories *
The Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Mistn of Cameron Post have been turned to blockbter films, and jt about every YA agent out there has “own-voic LGBTQ+ stori” on their mancript wish list. Last Will & Tticle chronicl the stggle of Will, an openly gay man diagnosed wh tticular ncer. This s- follows the queer Laverne & Shirley-style relatnship of Joey & Christian, a pair of gay roommat livg Wt Hollywood.
The Gay and Wondro Life of Caleb Gallo. The Gay and Wondro Life of Caleb Gallo has already picked up a loyal fanbase, urty of some very funny wrg, and some technil polish. The LA-set show revolv around hapls gay du Caleb (played by Brian Alvarez), and his equally goofy circle of iends.
The Gay and Wondro Life of Caleb Gallo also sred a Queerti Award nomatn for breakout web seri this year. Gay Print.. I grew up NYC wh about a ln gay people my Puero Rin fay.
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”It’s ol to go to gay clubs. (She/Her)TOSHIThe founr and CEO of Tokyo Rebels, the only gay-found molg agency the cy, workg to make the Japane fashn dtry more clive.
”When I was young, beg gay and yourself was NOT okay. When I moved to LA, someone told me about Oil Can Harry’s, this gay bar that opened 1968 and did le dancg nights twice a week. It’s nsired by many to be one of the first exampl of gay imagery film, and a remr that homosexual reprentatn has been wh the medium om the very begng.
That clip appears The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman’s documentary based on Vo Rso’s study of homosexualy the movi, along wh untls exampl of how gay characters showed up, per narrator Lily Toml, as “somethg to lgh at, or somethg to py, or even somethg to fear. Some have been documents of a moment or era of gay history, some have been ed as rrectiv to s of negative clichés, and others have simply celebrated the fact that the movi n be queer, they’re here, get ed to . It is nowhere near a prehensive ndown of every great movie to feature out-and-proud hero and villas, or a queer sensibily, or even jt visible (and/or risible) exampl of gay life cema; we uld have easily ma this list twice as long.
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The performanc are staggerg: Al Paco as the ignom Roy Cohn; Jefey Wright is the sharp-wted gay nurse who tends to him; Mary-Louise Parker as a pill-poppg hoewife wed to a closeted Mormon; Emma Thompson as an imper (and sometim sassy) angel; and Meryl Streep four rol, cludg the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg.
The work tak back to a time when AIDS was stigmatized as a “gay plague. Yet the film remas one of the first ank big-stud treatments of uncloseted gay and bisexual men, as follows eight iends (and one htler) who’ve gathered a New York Cy apartment to celebrate a birthday party.