LGBTQIA: Gay Fictn & Lerature | Los Angel Public Library

Contents:

• VTAGE GAY FICTN
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• GAY FICTN BOOKS
• GAY BOOKS
• LGBTQIA: GAY FICTN & LERATURE

VTAGE GAY FICTN

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13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

For rears who like actn, explosns, and don't md a ltle gore wh their gay romance. asexual, bisexual, f-f, ff, ee, ee-lgbt, gay, glbt, lbian, lgbt, lgbt-ee, lgbtq, m-m, mlm, mm, nonbary, queer, sapphic, trans, transgenr, wlw. 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.

Equaly Advot' missn is to achieve equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals Pennsylvania through direct legal servic, tn, and policy reform. The Fay Acceptance Project® is a rearch, terventn, tn, and policy iative to prevent health and mental health risks and to promote well-beg for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer-intified (LGBTQ) children and youth, cludg suici, homelsns, dg e and HIV — the ntext of their fai, cultur and fah muni. Gvanni's Room, one of the olst and more highly regard gay and lbian bookstor the untry, hosts many thor events and is a great meetg place.

GAY FICTN BOOKS

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GAY BOOKS

There are excellent rourc for librarians who want to improve their servic to LGBTQ patrons, and the Amerin Library Associatn’s (ALA) Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Round Table (GLBTRT) llects, creat, and promot profsnal rourc, and, importantly, admisters the Stonewall Book Awards and yearly booklists that share the most current materials. The Stonewall Book Awards are given annually to English-language works of exceptnal mer relatg to the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr experience and clu the Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Man & Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Lerature Award, the Stonewall Book Awards – Barbara Gtgs Lerature award and the Stonewall Book Awards – Israel Fishman Non-Fictn Award. A panel om Hazel Newlevant's exposé of queer uprisgs found wh Be Gay, Do Comics!.

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LGBTQIA: GAY FICTN & LERATURE

"How We Fight for Our Liv" by Saeed JonPoet Saeed Jon’ g-of-age memoir is a rehgly hont look at the realy of beg a Black gay man the south. When Garrard Conley is outed by his parents, they make him attend a 12-step nversn therapy program to “cure” him of his homosexualy. "The Guncle" by Steven RowleyOnce-famo s star Patrick is a proud Guncle (Gay Uncle Patrick, actually).

You won’t fd a buttoned-up gay love story the pag: Purnell unearths the dysfunctn of Black, broke and queer men fallg and out of love (or, well, lt). In this royal rom-, the prce of England and heir to the throne is gay, and longs for the son of the first woman print of the U. "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.

"Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life. Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy.