Gay Lerature: Poetry and Prose | Oxford Rearch Encyclopedia of Lerature

Contents:

• CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
• GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
• HEALTH CARE DISPARI AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH: A LERATURE REVIEW
• TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

Will Dillard’s story tak place two timel: his childhood the Mississippi Delta, leadg up to his summer a gay nversn mp, and his life as a graduate film stunt, learng about a slasher flick based on that summer and cidg to nont his past wh a southbound road trip. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTJune 23, 2017Once you have read Jam Baldw’s “Gvanni’s Room” and Larry Kramer’s “Faggots, ” both classic gay novels, here are 25 recent works that have shaped the L.

GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE

“Billy’s Boy” n be read as a stand-alone book; is about a teenager’s search to learn more about his ad gay father and his lbian mother’s past, as he experienc his own sexual HOURS (1998)By Michael CunnghamAward the 1999 Pulzer Prize for fictn, “The Hours” is a riff on Virga Woolf’s “Mrs.

Grapplg wh feelgs of aquacy the lavish “lookg-glass world, ” he disvers metropolan gay life through a iendship wh Leo, a civil MASTER (2004)By Colm ToibThis novel, set between 1895 and 1899, treads the le between fictn and bgraphy, explorg the later life of Henry Jam, the wrer known as “the Master. ” Colm Toib imag, wh vivid tail, members of Jam’s circle — like his voted manservant, Burgs Noak — as well as Jam’s feelgs of guilt, regret and homosexual CALDA (2005)By Keh McDermottThis novel by longtime theater actor Keh McDermott follows Gerald Bart, a retired actor sufferg om AIDS. McDermott ptur theater life well, and f the book wh an ternatnal st of HOME (2006)A Fay TragiicBy Alison BechlIn this acclaimed graphic memoir, which was turned to a Tony Award-wng Broadway mil, Alison Bechl — a rtoonist also known for creatg the Bechl tt, a standard for judgg the qualy of women’s onscreen rol — scrib both g out and g to terms wh her closeted gay father’s ath.

Wh sensivy and a ep nnectn to the girls, Beam scrib their stggl wh transng and how they rencile them wh more faiar teenage ncerns like csh and BOY (2009)By Rakh SatyalKiran Sharma, a 12-year-old gay Indian-Amerin boy, choos ballet over basketball and wears his mother’s perfume to school, beg a social outst and upendg his parents’ expectatns. This but novel is a betiful twist on the gay g-of-age KIDS (2010)By Patti SmhWner of the 2010 Natnal Book Award for nonfictn, this memoir documents Smh’s relatnship wh Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer later known for his sadomasochistic imagery, before he me out as gay. HalperIn this provotive book, the thor, a profsor of history and sexualy theory at the Universy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, argu that is not only their sexual preferenc that distguish gay men om straight on, but also their culture, cludg "diva worship” and “adoratn of glamour.

HEALTH CARE DISPARI AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH: A LERATURE REVIEW

AD 2009) a Large CyBy Choire SichaThis book, prented as nonfictn, is set the recent past New York Cy and follows a group of young gay men — though the word gay is never ed — as they date, drk and navigate the plexi of work and fdg love New York Cy. The book’s central character is Ju, who has a troubled past that unfolds slowly; Yanagihara provis sharp sight to his stggl as a disabled gay THE UDALA TREES (2015)By Chelo OkparantaThis story, set durg a btal civil war Nigeria the late 1960s, starts when Ijeoma, whose father is killed an air raid and whose mother is so affected she nnot re for her child, is sent to live wh her mother’s iend another town. In this disturbg and eply movg tobgraphil novel, Édouard Louis troduc Eddy, a young gay boy livg a yg manufacturg town, and scrib his experience of growg up poor and gay, which clud disturbg and vlent bullyg.

Gay poets of lor are wrg some of Ameri's most electric vers right now, and queer voic are shakg up genre fictn, cludg Tom Rob Smh, thor of Stal-era page-turner Child 44 and last year's BBC drama London Spy; Richard Hoe, currently workg on a sequel to his Booker longlisted pnage novel, The Kills; and Christopher Bollen, who now follows up his grippg thriller Orient wh The Dtroyers, an elegant and twistg spense novel that is earng parisons to the genre's great lbian doyenne, Patricia Highsmh. I thk that Edmund Whe was always sayg 's so hard to wre a gay book for a mass dience bee there's not the same sympathy toward a gay character, and there's also a heterosexual dislike of readg about gay sex.

One of the thgs that exc me recent queer lerature, that also ph agast the homogeno narrative about queer life, is this athetic that wants to recuperate some of the stigmatized aspects of queer art--thgs like melodrama, mp, hyper-emotnaly--and turn them to a source of bety. 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. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.

TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY

The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo. The book is remembered today for this legacy as well as for var them -- Hollywood's glass closet, beg gay the ary, the poisono effects of homophobia on society -- that still reverberate today.