Alex Ross on Robert Beachy’s new book, “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty.”
Contents:
- TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
- 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
- GAY MEN'S LERATURE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- GAY MEN'S LERATURE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
- GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
Fd out the 25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About 1. Osr Wil 2. Jam Baldw 3. Tennsee Williams 4. Gore Vidal 5. Edmund Whe. * gay writers 20th century *
Bgraphers have ntually bated Whman’s sexual orientatn; his poetry, particularly Leav of Grass, which faced ser censorship after s publitn, ntas several homoerotic imag, however others argue that this was untentnal. Osr Wil (who also appears on this list), after meetg Whman 1882, was adamant that Whman was gay, and even told the activist Gee Cecil Iv, “I have the kiss of Walt Whman still on my lips.” Whman suffered om poor health later life, and eventually passed away 1892 of several lung-related illns. Dorian Gray was origally published Lipptt’s Monthly Magaze, and drew such harsh cricism for s pictn of “immoraly,” (one character the novel exprs a potentially romantic fatuatn for another male character) that when was later re-published as a book, Wil toned down the novel’s homoerotic subtext.
25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
* gay writers 20th century *
He was a target of Spa’s Fran-era ernment; official reports scribe García Lor as a “socialist” and participant “homosexual and abnormal practic.” García Lor was shot 1936, likely by members of a Natnalist ia. Capote was openly gay, and while he was never much of an active participant the gay rights movement, the openns wh which he exprsed his inty njunctn wh his level of celebry was an important tone queer history.
Known for his grim and often btal sense of humor, Sullivan once wrote, “I took a certa pleasure rmg the genr clic that even though their program told me I uld not live as a Gay man, looks like I’m gog to die like one.”.
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.
GAY MEN'S LERATURE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Mastream amic cricism has ually failed to engage gay work whout distortg or ignorg s most central featur. In gay men's wrg, tenrn... * gay writers 20th 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.
GAY MEN'S LERATURE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
A Yorkshire farmer's journal om 1810 reveals surprisgly morn views on beg gay. * gay writers 20th century *
The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici.
THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
Sce Sappho's time, many famo lbian poets have followed her spirual footsteps. Some prolific gay female poets are also spoken word performers while ... * gay writers 20th century *
Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy.
Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect. Wonrful book, " gay refugee activist and lumnist Danny Ramadan rav about the global-md book unpacks the emotnal life of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian civil war who begs a gut-wrenchg affair wh a fellow refugee. Dalloway, a novel to which Cunngham pays homage; mid-20th-century Los Angel, hoewife Lra Brown, disntented wh her life, nonts her attractn to women; and 1990s New York Cy, Clarissa Vghan, who is lbian, plans a party for her bt iend, wrer Richard Brown, a gay man dyg of AIDS.
Forster, Jean Ge, Joe Orton, Andrew Holleran, David Leavt, and Constante Cavafy, and the love poetry of the first world is the most unified treatment of gay men's wrg to date, wrten to appeal to the general rear, but based on scholarship so origal that is val readg for anyone terted gay studi and genr studi. "Particular Voic" is an extraordary visual rerd of the flowerg of queer voic the wake of Stonewall and the AIDS crisis, while also payg homage to many earlier 20th Century activists and wrers who had urged the creatn of a muny inty, or otherwise gave public voice to gay and lbian sensibili.
GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
Gay, lbian, and bisexual characters e to the foreont the eight books. * gay writers 20th century *
15 x 15" gelat silver Ao Homos was an Ain Amerin gay theater troupe om 1990 to 1995 found San Francis by choreographer-dancer Djola Bernard Branner, actor Brian Freeman, and sger, dancer, and actor Eric Gupton. Duplechan is a novelist bt known for "Blackbird" which was adapted 2014 as a film starrg Mo'Nique and Isiah Washgton, and "Got 'til It's Gone", which won the gay romance tegory at the Lambda Lerary Awards. The tle of the chapter, “The German Inventn of Homosexualy, ” telegraphs a prcipal argument of the book: although same-sex love is as old as love self, the public disurse around , and the polil movement to w rights for , arose Germany the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri.
Beachy, a historian who teach at Yonsei Universy, Seoul, ends his book by notg that Germans hold gay-pri celebratns each June on what is known as Christopher Street Day, honor of the street where the Stonewall prott unfold. By the begng of the twentieth century, a non of gay lerature had emerged (one early advote ed the phrase “Stayg silent is ath, ” nearly a century before aids activists ed the slogan “Silence = Death”); activists were bemoang negative pictns of homosexualy (Thomas Mann’s “Death Venice” was one target); there were bat over the ethics of outg; and a schism opened between an clive, mastream factn and a more rto, anarchistic wg.