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.
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Billboard prents Love Letters to the LGBTQ Communy, featurg not for gay, queer and trans folks om MUNA, Joy Oladokun and more. * pride month gay love *
The new film Fire Island, streamg June 3 on Hulu, is a great place to start: the rom- centers on two bt iends who head to New York’s famed gay vatn statn for a memorable weekend wh their group of iends.
Paris Is Burng (directed by Jennie Livgston) documents New York Cy’s ballroom scene durg the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and the Black and Late gay and trans ball walkers, queens, and fed fai at s heart. This subtly W Anrson-que romance is also a powerful story of faial and muny love—wh a big, gay weddg as the cherry on top. A major ntributor to Natasha Lyonne’s legacy as a “straight gay in, ” and an sential part of queer non, But I’m a Cheerlear (directed by Jamie Babb and wrten by Babb and Brian Peterson) is a slightly surreal story set a pastel-hued gay nversn mp.
Maybe Brokeback has bee somethg of a cliché sce s rerd-breakg premiere—but should that stop you om experiencg this piece of cematic history, and gettg a good, gay cry gog to boot? The fact that ’s also a gay love story between Lady Hiko (Kim M-hee) and her handmain Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri)—albe one that’s both sexy and kd of gross, received by some as self-referentially playful and others as “disappotgly boilerplate”—is jt gravy. Rafiki brilliantly shows both the peril of gay love Kenya, where homosexualy is illegal, and the vivid, unntaable joy of a star-crossed, whirlwd romance.
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If the first 20 mut of Kajillnaire are among the bleakt thgs you’ve seen, the rt is an creasgly geo and lorful romp about disverg you have the power to ci who you will bee, breakg cycl of generatnal trma, and the healg force of love—pecially gay love wh Ga Rodriguez-LoCicero.