21 classic works of gay lerature - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• LERATURA GAY: 10 LIBROS QUE NO TE PUES PERR
• GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
• CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
• DOS LIBROS ENCIAL SOBRE CóMO VIVíA LA UNIDAD GAY EN LOS AñOS 70 Y 80
• LERATURA GAY BOOKS
• 21 CLASSIC WORKS OF GAY LERATURE
• TOP LIBROS GAYS PARA LEER (PDF).

LERATURA GAY: 10 LIBROS QUE NO TE PUES PERR

Okparanta entreteje hábilmente la rignación y la revelación en su aceptación la intidad lbiana en el mar una cultura hostil hacia la homosexualidad, s timar en retratar los horror tanto la guerra o los prejuics más profundos, pe a oecernos un ágil atisbo peranza. Si bien cierto que hay títulos para todos los géneros imagabl, en los últimos c años una nueva tegoría se ha abierto paso manera exosa entre los tant las más prtigiadas librerías: La temáti te tipo leratura se puen enntrar todo tipo historias relacnadas n el amor, el dolor y la vida misma entre homosexual y lbianas que párrafo a párrafo hablan el mismo lenguaje que los lector que simpatizan n te tilo vida y, sobre todo, enseñan un mundo distto a los así que n motivo la XXXIII Marcha l Orgullo Gay en puerta –se celebrará el próximo sábado 25 jun en la Ciudad Méxi– mostramos una selección algunos los libros que más trascenncia han tenido en la unidad lésbi, gay, bisexual, travti, transgénero, transexual e tersexual (LGBTTTI). Días ant suicidarse en diciembre 1990, Arenas le regaló al mundo su historia en papel, su vida en la épo la Cuba Fil Castro don ser homosexual era un lo y Realdo tenía dos razon más para ser perseguido: ser disinte y ser cror.

Escro en la déda los 70 por Luis Zapata, El Vampiro la lonia Roma relata la historia Adonis García quien, en primera persona, cuenta los recuerdos sobre su niñez, su vida sexual tan ntrovertida, cómo se volvió prostuto y su aceptación o homosexual. 100 gaysEdorial 444 págas, Pl Rsell hace un valso listado que no sólo se lima a intifir a gays y lbianas famosos a lo largo la historia, so que mutra cómo da uno tos grans personaj –que van s Safo hasta Madonna pasando por Osr Wil– ha ntribuido a las múltipl e terant facetas la experiencia homosexual, y cuyas vidas privadas ya no se ocultan por el bien todos. Y que la vtigación que publicó en 2003 la psiterapta Mara Castañeda analiza y expli cómo uno se vuelve homosexual y nstye su intidad, la homofobia ternalizada, el clóset, las dámis las relacn amorosas entre personas l mismo sexo y la bisexualidad, entre otros temas.

GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE

Una historia soccultural la homosexualidadEdorial Paidó la mirada lúcida e cisiva propia l vtigador social, y a la vez n el profundo nocimiento l tema adquirido n su participación en pítulos recient ta historia, Xabier Lizárraga, -uno los pneros l movimiento liberación sexual en Méxi- oece una obra que ayuda a entenr claramente aquella nsigna l movimiento social en s ics y todas las repercn por el od hacia los homosexual.

Bisexualy has been viewed wh gay studi as distct om homosexualy, and bisexuals have found themselv exclud om gay events and anizatns although a great many “gay ins” om Socrat to Shakpeare to Osr Wil were married and fathered children. The word “homosexual” was, fact, created the late neteenth century as an English equivalent for German Homosexualtät, which first appeared prt 1869 a pamphlet argug agast the Pssian legal that prcribed punishments for men who engaged same-sex relatns.

Adoptg his posn, crics have argued, for example, that Walt Whman and Osr Wil (1854–1900) were not, strictly speakg, homosexuals, at least the sense that medil and psychologil tablishments unrstood that “ndn” or “speci” the twentieth century. Whether the dividual is born homosexual or his or her homosexual sir are socially nstcted, is clear that medi-scientific theori of homosexualy as a curable disease were an ventn of the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri. If the play were wrten now, one might expect Brick to abandon Maggie, but as wrten by Williams, who was homosexual, the oppose happens, and the play ends “happily” when Maggie announc that she is pregnant.

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

One rells thgs as var as Ernt Hemgway's dismissive attu toward homosexuals his books, the “pansi” played for lghs Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s, and Hart Crane's joyo announcement—havg, he believed, fallen love wh a woman—that he was not homosexual after all. Although Amerin lerature the first two-thirds of the twentieth century almost always impli the medi-scientific fn whenever homosexualy enters the text, Whman had his own succsors, om Bliss Carman (1861–1929) and Richard Hovey (1864–1900) to Marsn Hartley (1877–1943) to Langston Hugh (1902–1967) and Gerr Lansg (b. Hallock vtigat one pecially tense relatnship his bgraphy of Fz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867), The Amerin Byron (2000), whom he views as a homosexual drawn to the younger poet Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820).

Sedgwick se Jam as a homosexual who rarely alt openly wh male timacy but whose work foc on “homosocial” (her term) suatns that occur when, for example, two men stggle for the attentn of a woman; emotns are directed by each man more strongly toward his petor than toward their shared object of sire.

DOS LIBROS ENCIAL SOBRE CóMO VIVíA LA UNIDAD GAY EN LOS AñOS 70 Y 80

Although Sedgwick nsirs Billy Budd to be suffed wh homosexual sir, she pots out that there is only one homosexual the morn sense the story: Claggart, who has the self-loathg of those who have ternalized homophobia, and who is “praved bee he is, his sir, a pervert, ” or “homosexual” (Sedgwick, 1990, p.

The many homosexual Amerin poets the early twentieth century who were athet clud Amy Lowell (1874–1925), Wilbur Unrwood (1876–1935), Donald Evans (1884–1921), Gee Sylvter Viereck (1884–1962), John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), Clark Ashton Smh (1893–1961), and Samuel Greenberg (1883–1917), whose poems Hart Crane emulated his own early work.

LERATURA GAY BOOKS

Viereck knew Magn Hirschfeld (1868–1935), an early German “sexologist” and fenr of male-male love, and based Children of Lilh on Hirshfeld's fn of homosexualy as a “transnal sex, ” mergg the mascule wh the feme. Public attus toward homosexuals are suggted by an cint the early 1940s when John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), who had accepted a poem by Robert Dunn (1919–1988) for the Kenyon Review, whdrew his offer after Dunn published an say another journal on homosexualy. Ransom plimented Dunn for havg taken such a bold stand—although actually the say is impartial, argug that homosexualy is no better, if no worse, than any other kd of life—but sisted that the poem schled for the Review might now be read as “homosexual advertisement” (Faas, 1983, p.

21 CLASSIC WORKS OF GAY LERATURE

Stt Fzgerald (1896–1940), but the evince is slight, and any se, a lerature domated by Ezra Pound (1885–1972), William Flkner (1897–1962), and Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953), gay and lbian ncerns had ltle room.

TOP LIBROS GAYS PARA LEER (PDF).

1928), and William Inge (1913–1973), and highly regard novels wh homosexual them and suatns, such as Two Ser Ladi (1943) by Jane Bowl (1917–1973), The Member of the Weddg (1946) by Carson McCullers (1917–1967), The Cy and the Pillar (1948) by Gore Vidal (b. The so-lled School of Boston, which provid one of the avant-gar's rpons the 1960s to the mastream works of Robert Lowell (1917–1977) and Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), was almost entirely gay, cludg such poets as John Weers (1934–2002), Gerr Lansg, and Stephen Jonas (1920–1970).

The gay liberatn movement and the gradual public awarens that homosexualy was not the disease the psychiatric tablishment had claimed led to a luge of “g-out” stori, which the thor narrat her or his progrs om “the closet” to an open life as a gay woman or man.