From the return of a legendary gay novelist to a blazg new memoir about parenthood, the are the queer books you should be readg this Pri Month—and beyond.
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From gay ghosts and nonbary astronts to stirrg poems and movg memoirs, this was a fantastic year for queer lerature. * top gay books 2022 *
Whether you want to get hnted by gay ghosts, journey through outer space wh nonbary adventurers, or take a ep dive to the history of the AIDS crisis, there’s a 2022 release for you. It’s there that he meets Bayard Rt, civil rights in and gay man, and the two embark on a tenr iendship that awakens and nourish Trey’s polil nscns.
This year’s bt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer tl clu "My Government Means to Kill Me," "Gods of Want," "Brown Neon" and "Flung Out of Space." * top gay books 2022 *
— Ilana MasadHelen Hoe by Kayla Kumari UpadhyayaHelen Hoe by Kayla Kumari UpadhyayaLet’s get one thg straight: all ghosts are gay. I uld waste words explag why, or I uld jt send you to Autostraddle, where there is helpfully already an article lled “10 Reasons Why All Ghosts Are Gay.
Her book Helen Hoe, which lands somewhere length between a short story and a novella, is a geoly nstcted gay ghost tale, lite and hntg.
Celebrate wh the bt LGBTQ books and books wh gay characters or om LGBTQ thors. Empower yourself by addg the spirg books to your readg list. * top gay books 2022 *
— Ruth MadievskyX by Davey DavisDavey Davis’s sophomore novel follows Lee, a leather-dyke sadist livg Brooklyn, a world which the ernment has been steadily portg (“exportg, ” the parlance of the book) any and all people se as “unsirable. Greenland alternat between’s Kip’s first-person voice and sectns of his own novel, an acunt of Mohammed el-Adl, a young Black Egyptian man wh whom noted gay novelist E.
— Jam FactoraEher/Or by Elif BatumanEher/Or by Elif BatumanFive years after her but, The Idt, Elif Batuman returned wh Eher/Or, which follows the first book’s narrator, Sel, through her sophomore year at Harvard. 2022-releas, achillean, adult-fictn, bisexual, gay, lbian, lgbtq, mlm, nonfictn, queer, sapphic, transgenr, wlw, ya-fictn. Andy is a closeted gay p who’s fired om the San Francis police force after he’s ught a raid at a gay bar.