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Contents:
- 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
- GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
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 author *
The lik of Osr Wil, Virgia Woolf, and the morn-day gay thors, Emma Donoghue and Sarah Waters. Subsequently, fluenced groups such as the civil rights movement and the gay liberatn movement. Moreover, Williams was part of a gay social circle New York Cy that clud fellow wrer and close iend Donald Wdham.
On top of that, he wrote The Joy of Gay Sex, wrten wh Charl Silverste 1977. Some crics have argued that a general shift om heterosexual to homosexual love n be observed throughout his wrg reer. Subsequently, the foreword to Mrice scrib his stggle wh his homosexualy.
Forster’s explicly homosexual wrg, Mrice and the Short Stori was published posthumoly 1971.
GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
* modern gay author *
Larry Kramer was among the founrs of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) 1982. She dited both her life and her creative talent to nontg and addrsg jtic of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
That is our round-up of the 25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About.
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 upheaval.Jam 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 orientatn.Ryka 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). The story ntrasts matns on bety wh the harsh reali of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis.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.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
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 author *
Many of his later works feature gay characters, though their sexualy is ambient rather than topil.Audre 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.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.
TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
The book scrib wh paful clary the reprsive social mor of the time and movgly picts the plexi of his close iendship wh a straight woman.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 world.June JordanJordan primarily wrote through the lens of bisexualy and racial jtice. 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. It’s a such a tenr moment and a remr of the kdns and nnectn that is possible between all of MenzAuthor of Rabow MilkCeremoni by Essex Hemphill (Pengu)The hugely fluential gay Ain Amerin poet Essex Hemphill died of Aids-related plitns 1995, aged 38, jt one month before the lnch of protease hibors – early antiretrovirals – which might have saved or at least prolonged his life.
In the wrgs and radil cema he left behd – cludg llaboratns wh Marlon Riggs Tongu Untied (1989) and Isaac Julien Lookg for Langston (1989) – he provid subsequent generatns wh evince that we lived and loved, and of our fight agast the effects of tersectg whe supremacy, racism, homophobia and heterosexism. Gay Amerin men had barely one ’s grace between the liberatn movement and the begng of the Aids crisis, which Hemphill wrote about as vally as anyone.