From the return of a legendary gay novelist to a blazg new memoir about parenthood, the are the queer books you should be readg this Pri Month—and beyond.
Contents:
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
- A GAY MAN’S GREAT ADVENTURE AWAS YOU!
- 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * book about gay man *
The two had met 1980 and grew close 1995, when both were volved addrsg a divisive Smhsonian exhib of the Enola Gay, the plane that released Oppenheimer’s bomb over Hiroshima Augt of 1945. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.
Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
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1Adam Sass Surrenr Your Sons1Adam Sass Surrenr Your SonsNow 29% Off'Lost' meets 'Boy Erased' Adam Sass' pellg YA but about Connor Major, a gay teenager who out to his sgle mother and ends up beg forcibly sent to a nversn therapy facily on a remote island. This statement should be obv, but as many m-spec (multi-genr attracted spectm) guys know all too well, qutns like "Are you sure you're not gay?
Ripley, whose crim formed the basis of another inilly homoerotic movie, the romantic elements of The Price of Salt are far ls obfted. "Advertisement - Contue Readg Below19Elon Green Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York19Elon Green Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New YorkLast Call ptur a time New York Cy—the late '80s and early '90s—that was extremely unsafe for gay men. This was not only due to the ongog AIDS crisis, but also bee a serial killer was preyg on the patrons of gay bars; somethg that went unrreported by the media, and, as thor Elon Green argu, neglected by law enforcement.
Here, fd a list of all the new novels, memoirs, say llectns, and other LGBTQ+ books we’re lookg forward to spendg time wh this Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (May 31)Bad Gays: A Homosexual HistoryWh their new book, wrer Huw Lemmey and amic Ben Miller are brgg their fascatg—and very funny—ep div to the liv of the most dastardly queer people history om the podst to the page. Bad Gays offers a rivetg look back at historil figur whom the prent-day LGBTQ+ muny might be ls eager to reclaim, om outright murrers like Andrew Cunanan and Aileen Wuornos to more sidly sister figur like J.
PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
Kgdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran (June 7)One of gay lerature’s most teemed tans, Andrew Holleran, returns this month wh his first novel 16 years, The Kgdom of Sand. While Holleran’s cult classic, Dancer om the Dance, is remembered for the illic thrills of s hedonistic roller-aster ri through gay life 1970s New York (durg the ee-spired moment after Stonewall and before the AIDS crisis), The Kgdom of Sand, Holleran turns his gimlet eye to the aftermath of that perd. The book offers a poignant visn of iendship between the narrator—a gay man his 40s who moved om New York back to his hometown Florida to re for his dyg parents, where he has remaed ever sce—and a man 20 or so years his senr lled Earl, wh whom he shar a strange and unlikely bond; s grapplgs wh lonels and mortaly emergg as somethg both hntg and ultimately betiful.
Jt by Lookg at Him is wrten om the perspective of a gay, disabled TV wrer livg Los Angel who appears, om the outsi at least, to have all—a succsful show, a cent e, a lovg boyiend—but ep down feels stuck, attemptg to overe his imposter syndrome and low self-teem through liberal amounts of alhol and sual sex. A roller-aster ri through the seedier rners of gay London follows, as Don’s journey of self-disvery ultimately turns self-stctive. "Chos Car" is a Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos program providg outreach iativ throughout the Coachella Valley.
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A GAY MAN’S GREAT ADVENTURE AWAS YOU!
A Gay Man’s great adventure awas you! A Gay Man wants to take you on a journey of love, passn, loss and disvery…“A story like no other; an thentic, touchg and realistic journey om rejectn and judgment to acceptance and love - exactly as you are. "Every gay man has a journey...
A Gay Man betifully navigat the most timate and challengg tim most gay men experience.
21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
Simple and artfully executed, A Gay Man is a powerful yet subtle vatn to embrace ourselv, and to tst the procs and experience of growg to your whole self". Rick Clemons, Comg Out Expert/Coach, Podster, Author - Frankly My Dear I'm Gay. This book should be schools and given to all young gay men.
Anthony Mayer, entreprenr and out gay man.
The A Gay Man story, and Edward's Story. Workg gay men's self-empowerment today, and 'fdg himself' onle art as a young man, Ed found spiratn to make a visually driven, soulful narrative about our mon spiratn om The Velvet Rage and The Power of Now, livered through a kaleidospe of ternatnal artistic perspectiv, he has created a book wh an enormoly important missn: to help gay men fall love wh themselv and their liv, once and for all.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
This book is so important bee was one of the first to really show the plited ways which gay men had to manage their inty, self and place a world that didn’t want them do exist. While not one of Vidal’s “bt” works (to me, he’s an sayist first and a novelist send), The Pillar and the Cy is a mt-read bee of s place the queer non as one of the first regnized and reviewed gay novels. The fact that A Separate Peace ntually gets tght high school English urs baffl the bt possible way, as Knowl’ bt-known work is one of the most homoerotic bildungsromans ever wrten.