Stori by, for, and/or about Gay and Bi Young People.
Contents:
- THE BT CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS OF GAY MYSTERY
- GAY MEN
- CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
- 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
THE BT CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS OF GAY MYSTERY
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GAY MEN
Inclus only thors wh new books published sce 2000. Gay Mystery = ma characters intify as gay male. Author n intify however ... * gay male author *
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.
CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
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. * gay male author *
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). 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. Wgh’s own homosexual relatnships lend crence to that terpretatn.
25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
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.
Bgraphers have ntually bated Whman’s sexual orientatn; his poetry, particularly Leav of Grass, which faced ser censorship after s publitn, ntas several homoerotic imag, however others argue that this was untentnal.