Books shelved as gay-ntemporary: Acclamatn by Vee Hoffman, Fast Connectn by Megan Erickson, Murr and Mayhem by Rhys Ford, But For You by Mary Cal...
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GAY CONTEMPORARY BOOKS
In the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (based on the mt read non-fictn book by Vo Rso), the narrator explas, “Hollywood…tght straight people what to thk about gays and gay people what to thk about themselv. This ternatnally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the ey of Js Goldberg, a mascule girl growg up the McCarthy era and g out as a young butch lbian the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-llar town.
Baldw’s hntg and ntroversial send novel is his most staed treatment of sexualy, and a classic of gay lerature. Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them by Tony Khner.
Rt Grrl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gag some legimacy, but the queers are rtg agast assiatn; cktail AIDS dgs are startg to work, and the cy walls on eher si of the Ma are spray-pated wh the words YES or NO. Lucky and her hband, Krishna, are gay. But the two s of their iendship, om the first stirrgs of gay liberatn through the tastrophe of AIDS, Jack remas voted to Will.