Gay Male Culture (124 books)

Contents:

• GAY MALE CULTURE
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
• CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
• GAY_CULTURE BOOKS
• UNVERG THE PAST: A GUI TO THE 10 BT GAY HISTORY BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ!
• HOMTERN: HOW GAY CULTURE LIBERATED THE MORN WORLD HARDVER – MAY 3, 2016

GAY MALE CULTURE

And while you n always zy up on the uch and prs play on a movie about queer love, the LGBTQ books will take thgs one step of the classics, bt-sellers and new releas on this list put gay characters at the heart of the story — or at the very least, are wrten by thors who intify as LGBTQ+. 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 honor of LGBTQ History Month, celebrated every October, here are books that aim to shed light on and clarify signifint historil moments that rmed and shaped the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights movement.

"The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle" by Lillian FarmanA thorough troductn to the history of the gay and lbian civil rights movements, this book chronicl the early stggl of LGBTQ dividuals om the 1950s to prent day g a pilatn of enlighteng terviews wh policians, ary officials and members of the muny. "When We Rise: My Life the Movement" by Cleve JonThis semi-tobgraphil acunt follows Cleve Jon as he explor his inty as a gay man the 1950s, disvers a muny and a e through his mentor, Harvey Milk, and p wh the ravagg effects of the AIDS epimic. "Sister Outsir: Essays and Speech" by Audre LorA celebratn of tersectnaly, black lbian poet and femist Audre Lor analyz the prence of ageism, sexism, racism, classism and homophobia her own life through a llectn of lyril says and speech.

"The Men wh the Pk Triangle" by Hez Heger (Used)In lurid tail, Hez Hager unfolds the te story of Josef Kohout — a man who was imprisoned a Nazi ncentratn mp for beg gay — and effectively remds the world of the torture gay dividuals suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime. JohnsonWh the help of classified documents and terview wh ary officials, David Johnson argu that Senator Joseph McCarthy was jt as guilty of promotg anti-Communism paranoia as he was spirg polici that nsired homosexualy a threat to natnal secury. "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi" by Vo RsoPublished 1987, Rso’s analysis of the portrayal of homosexualy film has laid the foundatn for the how we evaluate LGBTQ reprentatn film today and has supported the argument that reprentatn matters.

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

The Uned Stat of Ameri" by Eric CerviWhile many believe the fight for LGBTQ rights began at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn durg the summer of 1969, actually began wh a grassroots “homophile” movement that has been largely overlooked. Cervi documents the work of Frank Kameny and other gay activists durg the late 1950s and ‘60s, illumatg their role layg the groundwork that would lead to the Stonewall NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram. Buy It Here >>In this charged llectn of 15 says and speech, Lor tak on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for actn and change.

Buy It Here >>"The Gay Revolutn" begs the 1950s, when gays and lbians were crimals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, church saw them as sners, and society victimized them wh hatred. Farman discs the sweepg story of the stggle for gay and lbian rights — based on amazg terviews wh policians, ary figur, and members of the entire LGBT muny who face the challeng every day.

21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW

Schwarz lot the poetry of Cullen, Hugh, and McKay the employment of ntemporary gay words, rivg om the Greek disurse of homosexualy and om Walt Whman. Buy It Here >>When Tony Khner's "Angels Ameri" h Broadway 1993, won the Pulzer Prize, swept the Tonys, lnched a sre of major reers, and changed the way gay liv were reprented popular culture.

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

Buy It Here >>Each of the stori is origal, each is by a noted thor for young adults, and each hontly portrays s subject and theme — growg up gay or lbian, or wh gay or lbian parents or iends. art, gay, gay-culture, gay-male, gay-male-culture, gay-men, history, homosexual-culture, homosexual-men, homosexualy, lgbt, male, men, non-fictn, same-sex.

This book is so important bee was one of the first to really show the plited ways which gay men had to manage their inty, self and place a world that didn’t want them do exist.

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While not one of Vidal’s “bt” works (to me, he’s an sayist first and a novelist send), The Pillar and the Cy is a mt-read bee of s place the queer non as one of the first regnized and reviewed gay novels. The fact that A Separate Peace ntually gets tght high school English urs baffl the bt possible way, as Knowl’ bt-known work is one of the most homoerotic bildungsromans ever wrten. Their relatnship is pretty ambiguo the whole story and Ellis leav open to one’s own terpretatn, but I thk that is what has so many gay rears lovg Pl.

The novel tails a mother’s stggle to al wh her gay son’s suici, as she wasn’t supportive of his g out while he was alive, and how the post-mortem lsons changed her. Vany and bety are two thgs that many gay men stggle wh their entire liv due to livg a gay culture which how good one looks superses most other aspects regards to social pal and succs.

UNVERG THE PAST: A GUI TO THE 10 BT GAY HISTORY BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ!

Extra Cred: Check out Brishead Revised, Evelyn Wgh’s most celebrated novel and an early work the queer non, and the llected works of Patricia Highsmh, all of which were really, really gay. Y, I know this is a lbian book, but too often the gay muny self-segregat and the lack of knowledge about other segments of the muny is an ongog problem.

If you have a list of “Books for Gay Men” then a book that shows the stggl the LGBTQ muny faced the midst of the AIDS epimic is need, and this play is even more need. The exploratn of gay history media has e a long way om the propagandized monizatn that experienced the early days of Hollywood, and we even have a ferally endorsed ‘LGBT History Month’ that is celebrated a wi variety of plac across the world such as the US, UK, most of Wtern Europe, and Atralia, but that’s not to say that is perfect.

A Revolutn by Rob Sanrs (2019)Hidn From History by Mart B Duberman (1990)The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts (1982)And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts (1987)The Deviant’s War by Eric Cervi (2020)Good As You by Pl Flynn (2017)Comg Out Unr Fire by Allan Bébé (2010)David Bowie Ma Me Gay by Darryl W.

HOMTERN: HOW GAY CULTURE LIBERATED THE MORN WORLD HARDVER – MAY 3, 2016

Bullock (2017)Strangers by Graham Robb (2005)The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life Ameri by Charl Kaiser (2019)The LGBTQ+ History Book (distributed) by DK (2023). The begng of the (morn) fight for gay rights and equaly is a perfect place to start this list – jt as this illtratn-rich reamg of the famo Stonewall Rts is a perfect f for the almost-start of the tnal procs – early primary. A Revolutn don’t jt addrs gay rights issu but also the polil tensns and passnate buildup of the motivatn behd the rt and protts general, allowg for a kid-iendly yet highly tuive troductn to real-life issu no matter where and how they might prent themselv.

Hidn From History – Reclaimg the Gay & Lbian Past is tailed, attentive, rg, and revolutnary – but even then remas an admted drop the sea that is the dynamic, persistent prence of gay culture and queerns throughout all of human history. For, as the book scrib, ‘gayns’ is no morn phenomenon, nor n any way be perceived as fundamentally ‘un-normal’ – om everywhere and exists wh everyone.

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Tim of Harvey Milk vers the life and tim of San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – om his early reer, stat as the first ever openly gay Amerin elected polician, and then assassatn at the hands of disgntled adversary Dan Whe on the 27th November 1978. Sce, and thanks part to the thor – legendary San Francis Chronicle journalist Shilts, who was a hero his own right – Milk’s legacy has bee a source of great spiratn for the gay muny, and that strong spir is ptured perfectly wh the pag of The Mayor of Castro Street.