Books shelved as gay-ntemporary: Acclamatn by Vee Hoffman, Fast Connectn by Megan Erickson, Murr and Mayhem by Rhys Ford, But For You by Mary Cal...
Contents:
- 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
- TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
- GAY CONTEMPORARY BOOKS
25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
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. * modern gay authors *
Their varly humane and hilar portras of queerns and same-sex love and lt—and the everyday liv of those who experience them—are illumatg, whether you’re gay, straight, or somewhere between. Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021).
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
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. * modern gay authors *
Michael ChabonChabon has long had a gay followg due to his 1988 novel The Mysteri of Ptsburgh, which featur a protagonist who has both homosexual and heterosexual enunters.
Many of his later works feature gay characters, though their sexualy is ambient rather than LorLor’s wrg reflects her experience as a Black lbian and a mother. The closens of the iendship between the two young men hts at homosexualy.
GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-thors: Adventure-Pom! by Sean Dryn, On Earth We're Briefly Geo by Ocean Vuong, L'importanza di sere onto by Osr Wil... * modern gay authors *
Wgh’s own homosexual relatnships lend crence to that terpretatn.
TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
* modern gay authors *
Christopher IsherwoodIsherwood, 1966Camera Prs/Pictorial ParaIsherwood’s 1964 novel A Sgle Man follows a gay man grievg for his lover over the urse of a day. Armistead MpMp’s effervcent novels about gay life San Francis, startg wh Tal of the Cy (1978), brought to life a i foreign to much of the JordanJordan primarily wrote through the lens of bisexualy and racial jtice. Homosexualy was partly crimalised 1967.
GAY CONTEMPORARY BOOKS
Shared among gay iends, we uld celebrate our growg nfince and visibily wh new work om Alan Hollghurst and Jeate Wterson, velop a mp sensibily by quotg to each other l om EF Benson and Ronald Firbank, image that London uld bee the queer Ardia picted Armistead Mp’s Tal of the we moved towards assiatn the 1990s, Dennis Cooper’s Gee Mil novel cycle was a remr that sexualy was still transgrsive, that sire remaed a dark and disptive force.