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Contents:

• GAY ARTHURIANA
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• LAID TO RU: A GAY ARTHURIAN ROMANCE (LANCELOT'S FALL BOOK 1) KDLE EDN
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

GAY ARTHURIANA

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WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

's a retellg of arthurian legend, but 's lgbtplease only add books which are a) gay and b) directly feature characters om arthurian legend (& 's them who are gay). Gay Knights and Horny Hero: Tal om the Court of Kg Arthur. 2022-releas, achillean, adult-fictn, bisexual, gay, lbian, lgbtq, mlm, nonfictn, queer, sapphic, transgenr, wlw, ya-fictn.

Take a classic and make gay — ’s really that simple. From A Great Gatsby retellg featurg trans and gay characters jt like we’ve always known should to a Sapphic take on Arthurian legend, the new retellgs take on myths, legends, fairytal, and classic stori — both old and new.

Recently, Sarah Luddgton published a novel Lancelot and the Wolf, wh explic gay sexual ntent pictg Lancelot and Arthur as lovers. The Arthurian love triangle of Arthur/Guevere/Lancelot has always had a ht of homoerotism —and romantic feelgs between Lancelot and Arthur seem a reasonable reason to many for why Arthur would not do anythg about his bt iend sleepg wh his wife.

LAID TO RU: A GAY ARTHURIAN ROMANCE (LANCELOT'S FALL BOOK 1) KDLE EDN

Luddgton may be the first one overtly to pict a homosexual relatnship between Arthur and Lancelot, but the possibili have been implied or suggted numero Arthurian works, pecially the twentieth century. Even as far back as Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, there are homoerotic hts cross-drsg scen and a scene where two knights accintally end up bed together.

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Dorsey Armstrong’s Genr and the Chivalric Communy Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur has explored this topic and how the knights of Camelot themselv are aware of the possibily of homosexual mors surroundg a group of men an anizatn like the Round Table.

Beardsley, who may have been homosexual or asexual, was known for his androgyno lookg characters his Arthurian illtratns, and for very erotic works, plete wh enlarged genalia, other works not geared toward children.

Whe was himself later treated at the end of his life for his own homosexualy.

But Whe and Bradley only ht at homosexualy. Other thors troduced to the legend, but perhaps felt creatg a gay Kg Arthur was gog too far.

Furthermore, homosexualy is a negative behavr the works that n brg about Camelot’s downfall, so other characters than Arthur are the on afflicted wh homosexualy—notably, the villas.