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Contents:
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
- TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
- RELATNSHIP GAY BOOKS
- THE 20 BT GAY ROMANCE BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ ALREADY BY NOW!
- 60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
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. * best books about gay relationships *
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+. "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.
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). The says foc on Chee’s personal experienc as a gay Korean-Amerin wrer, and range topic om the wrg life to a logy of a iend lost to AIDS. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers is a fascatg look at not only the history of gay rights, but the tersectn of how beg a woman played to that journey — and a soberg remr that the work still isn’t done.
21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
* best books about gay relationships *
From drag shows to gay bars to polil ralli, Allen tak rears on a journey to all rners of the Uned Stat, fdg LGBT+ people everywhere and revealg the pri that manag to flourish even the most nservative plac.
Another novel set Texas, Orphs Girl tells the story of Raya and Sarah, two lbian teenagers who are sent to nversn mp to have their homosexualy “cured”.
TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
This raw and lyril book don’t flch away om the vastatg btaly of nversn therapy, bravely bearg wns to the mental and physil pa the girls experience as a direct rult of homophobia. For a novel that was ed as evince of Osr Wil’s homosexualy his trial for gross cency 1895, The Picture of Dorian Gray is likely to strike morn rears as remarkably not so homoerotic, after all.
RELATNSHIP GAY BOOKS
This Gothic novel trac the moral cle of Dorian Gray, a young man whose obssn wh his own bety leads him to make some unwise cisns… Askg endurg qutns about art and athetics, Osr Wil’s remarkable novel is a breathtakg tale about the fear of agg, as well as a piece of gay lerary history s own right. Another gay l classic, Gvanni’s Room is the plex story of David, a young Amerin 1950s Paris, who is sperately tryg to accept what society has tght him is morally rrect and appropriate: a heterosexual marriage.
THE 20 BT GAY ROMANCE BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ ALREADY BY NOW!
SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like.
Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.
The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. Alan Hollghurst famoly qutned the future of the gay novel this year, which is strikg sce he's often viewed as helpg make queer books accsible to a mastream dience.
60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo.
The book is remembered today for this legacy as well as for var them -- Hollywood's glass closet, beg gay the ary, the poisono effects of homophobia on society -- that still reverberate today.