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Here are the bt LGBTQ books wh gay characters or by thors who intify as LGBTQ+. Fd romance, spirg nonfictn and YA reads for adults and teens. * books by gay authors *

Told a seri of vigt pictg Jon' story as a young, Black, gay man the South, the stori are a mix of poetry and prose that cumulate to a stunng portra of how race, sex, queerns, power, and love clash and harmonize. Abdi Nasemian is a gay Iranian-Amerin screenwrer, producer, and thor of "Like A Love Story, " a love letter to queer history that received a Stonewall Honor 2020. Be that trans, tersex, asexual, gay, or a betiful mix of all of those.

In a highly stctured society, Mrice is a nventnal young man almost every way, “steppg to the niche that England had prepared for him”: except that his is homosexual. “This is the story of Pl, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerlears ri Harleys, the homeg queen ed to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infe Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance.

“Baldw’s hntg and ntroversial send novel is his most staed treatment of sexualy, and a classic of gay lerature. In Iran, homosexualy may be a crime, but to be a man trapped a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accsible. Mishima’s protagonist disvers that he is beg a homosexual pole, post-war Japan.

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She’s terng wh the thor of her favore book: Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate thory on femism, women’s bodi, and other gay-soundg stuff. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay. From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivisn Florida where neighbors nform, pete, and spy on each other, Gay livers a wry, betiful, hntg visn of morn Ameri remiscent of Merrt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.

“From the thor of the prize-wng llectn Quarante, an sightful, pellg but novel set ral Ameri and India the 1980s and `90s, part g-of-age story about a gay Indian Amerin boy, part fay saga about an immigrant fay’s stggl each to fd a sense of belongg, inty, and hope.

Several of Brant’s (The Mohawk Trail) stori nsir the need to e to terms wh ath: ‘This Place, ’ a medice man whose ‘good medice’ rang om butter tarts and old Hank Williams songs to a snakk and chantg helps a gay man afflicted wh AIDS fd the urage to ‘see ath g and n to meet .

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This ternatnally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the ey of Js Goldberg, a mascule girl growg up the ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ McCarthy era and g out as a young butch lbian the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-llar town. “In this grippg memoir of the AIDS years (1981–1996), Sarah Schulman rells how much of the rebell queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay nservative spokpeople and mastream nsumerism. It was not until llege that Alison, who had recently e out as a lbian, disvered that her father was also gay.

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When Garrard was a neteen-year-old llege stunt, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changg cisn: eher agree to attend a church-supported nversn therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexualy; or risk losg fay, iends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an stutnalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urg and stronger his fah God for his bsh wh s.

An Unrground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew Nazi Berl by Gad Beck.

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That he was a homosexual and a teenage lear the ristance and yet survived is amazg. “Wrten om a ntemporary Cherokee, Queer and mixed-race experience, the poems nont a legacy of land-theft, genoci, and forced removal, and rist ongog attacks on both Indigeno and Gay/Lbian/Bisexual/Transgenr muni. In Be Hard, poet Jt Ch explor his inty as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover.

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+. As the end of his life draws near, Jab hop to the right the wrongs that ed his relatnship wh his gay son, Isaac. "How We Fight for Our Liv" by Saeed JonPoet Saeed Jon’ g-of-age memoir is a rehgly hont look at the realy of beg a Black gay man the south.

When Garrard Conley is outed by his parents, they make him attend a 12-step nversn therapy program to “cure” him of his homosexualy. "The Guncle" by Steven RowleyOnce-famo s star Patrick is a proud Guncle (Gay Uncle Patrick, actually). 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).

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