Contents:
- SHALA GAY KATHA
- GAY SRILANKA
- 8 GREAT BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS FROM PLAC WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
- TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
- 01THE CEASELS CHATTER OF DEMONSASHOK FERREYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GRATIAEN PRIZE AND LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LERATURE, THE CEASELS CHATTER OF DEMONS IS THE STORY OF SONNY MAHAWALA, WHOSE MOTHER IS NVCED THAT HER UGLY SON IS POSSSED BY MONS. WHEN MAHAWALA VISS HIS MOTHER KANDY, HIS GIRLIEND ACPANI HIM, AND SEEMS, SO DO THE DEVIL HIMSELF. WHAT FOLLOWS IS A TALE OF DYSFUNCTNAL RELATNSHIPS. AT S RE, THE BOOK EXPLOR THE -EXISTENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL ALL HUMANS AND EXPLAS THAT IS NOT JT THE WICKED WHO ARE PABLE OF EVIL; SOMETIM EVEN THE ‘GOOD’ ARE LED ASTRAY. BUY HERE. 02ANIL’S GHOSTMICHAEL ONDAATJETHIS CRILLY ACCLAIMED NOVEL IS SET THE EARLY 1990S DURG THE SRI LANKAN CIVIL WAR WH MUCH OF THE STORY TOLD FLASHBACKS. ANIL TSIRA IS A 33-YEAR-OLD SRI LANKAN WHO LEFT HER UNTRY 15 YEARS EARLIER AND HAS BEEN SENT BACK BY THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSN TO VTIGATE POSSIBLE “EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTNS” BY THE ERNMENT. THE DISVERY OF A RECENTLY BURIED SKELETON AT A SE THAT ONLY THE ARMY HAS ACCS TO FORC HER TO RISK HER OWN LIFE TO FIGURE OUT WHY UNTLS PEOPLE HAVE DISAPPEARED. ANIL’S GHOST PATS A HNTG PICTURE OF A UNTRY THE MIDDLE OF A CIVIL WAR AND THE IMPACT OF SUCH VLENCE ON S PEOPLE.BUY HERE. 03FUNNY BOYSHYAM SELVADURAISELVADURAI’S BUT NOVEL IS SET AGAST THE BACKDROP OF THE TA-SHALE NFLICT LEADG UP TO THE 1983 RTS AND IS A POIGNANT G-OF-AGE STORY ABOUT GROWG UP GAY COLOMBO. ARJIE CHELVARATNAM IS NSIRED ‘FUNNY’ BEE HE PREFERS TO DRS UP LIKE A GIRL AND PLAY “BRI-BRI” STEAD OF HANGG OUT WH THE BOYS AND KICKG BALLS AROUND. AS HE GROWS OLR, HE STGGL TO E TO TERMS WH HIS SEXUALY EVEN AS HIS WORLD IS TORN APART BY THE UNRT AROUND HIM. FUNNY BOY IS AN EVOTIVE NOVEL THAT MERG THE POLIL AND THE PERSONAL THROUGH SIMPLE YET ELEGANT PROSE.BUY HERE. 04
SHALA GAY KATHA
gay. Today, May 17th, is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia, first anized back 2004 orr “to draw the attentn of policymakers, opn lears, social movements, the public and the media to the vlence and discrimatn experienced by LGBTI people ternatnally. So, nsirg the ternatnal foc of the day, I’ve put together a list of great books by LGBTQ wrers who were born untri where is still actually illegal to be gay.
Jam was never out Jamai—he has scribed himself there as “very much the closet and very much the church, which is a very big closet Jamai”—and Jamai still has strong cultural bias agast homosexualy, even outsi of the laws. Rad hosts exprsed “regret” that he was queer, while others reportedly bshed off his beg gay as a mor. ” In the same terview, he explas that the genis of the book was one character, John-John K: “It was a gay hman gog through boyiend troubl, tryg to kill someone, ” Jam says.
In his but novel, Rasa, a young gay translator livg an unnamed Middle Eastern untry, is ught wh his lover (by his grandmother, no ls), and then his bt iend is arrted, and we follow the fallout—as well as lve to Rasa’s memori—throughout the day. Often ced as the first openly gay novelist om Moroc, where same-sex sexual activy has been illegal sce 1962, Taïa’s tobgraphil novels have ma him, at least for some, “an inic figure his homeland of Moroc and throughout the Arab world, and a bean of hope a untry where homosexualy is illegal.
GAY SRILANKA
” Infils tells the story of a ten-year-old boy, the son of a prostute, who grows up to bee a young gay Mlim, and then a jihadi.
But I don’t wre only to say that I am homosexual. In 2013, Taïa ma his directorial but wh Salvatn Army, a film adaptatn of his novel by the same name, which, as Aida Alami wrote The New York Tim, “gave the Arab world s first on-screen gay protagonist. In this stallment, narrated alternately by a young gay Mlim and a woman searchg for her closeted hband through a wild polil and cultural enzy, nuclear war looms and thgs only get more and more bizarre.
In an say entled “How to be Gay and Indian” at Granta, Suri wr:. Most Indians, even if exposed to the nascent gay visibily, have simply not thought the issue through.
8 GREAT BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS FROM PLAC WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
Dpe my ankns wh their rrponnt, The Tim of India managed to publish an entire natnwi centre-page terview wh me whout once mentng the gay angle—eher my life or my book....
It helps that there are no explic proscriptns agast homosexualy Hduism.
TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
A populatn so characterized by difference (whether relign, language, ste, class or sk lor), and so proudly ristant to any attempt at homogenizatn, n hardly turn around to earmark queers for special discrimatn. Like the protagonist of his novel, Canadian novelist Shyam Selvadurai was born Sri Lanka, where homosexualy is illegal (though paradoxilly, so is anti-LGBTQ discrimatn).
Funny Boy is a great al more than a gay g-of-age novel, for Arjie’s loss of nocence is as much a polil procs as a personal one.
01THE CEASELS CHATTER OF DEMONSASHOK FERREYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GRATIAEN PRIZE AND LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LERATURE, THE CEASELS CHATTER OF DEMONS IS THE STORY OF SONNY MAHAWALA, WHOSE MOTHER IS NVCED THAT HER UGLY SON IS POSSSED BY MONS. WHEN MAHAWALA VISS HIS MOTHER KANDY, HIS GIRLIEND ACPANI HIM, AND SEEMS, SO DO THE DEVIL HIMSELF. WHAT FOLLOWS IS A TALE OF DYSFUNCTNAL RELATNSHIPS. AT S RE, THE BOOK EXPLOR THE -EXISTENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL ALL HUMANS AND EXPLAS THAT IS NOT JT THE WICKED WHO ARE PABLE OF EVIL; SOMETIM EVEN THE ‘GOOD’ ARE LED ASTRAY. BUY HERE. 02ANIL’S GHOSTMICHAEL ONDAATJETHIS CRILLY ACCLAIMED NOVEL IS SET THE EARLY 1990S DURG THE SRI LANKAN CIVIL WAR WH MUCH OF THE STORY TOLD FLASHBACKS. ANIL TSIRA IS A 33-YEAR-OLD SRI LANKAN WHO LEFT HER UNTRY 15 YEARS EARLIER AND HAS BEEN SENT BACK BY THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSN TO VTIGATE POSSIBLE “EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTNS” BY THE ERNMENT. THE DISVERY OF A RECENTLY BURIED SKELETON AT A SE THAT ONLY THE ARMY HAS ACCS TO FORC HER TO RISK HER OWN LIFE TO FIGURE OUT WHY UNTLS PEOPLE HAVE DISAPPEARED. ANIL’S GHOST PATS A HNTG PICTURE OF A UNTRY THE MIDDLE OF A CIVIL WAR AND THE IMPACT OF SUCH VLENCE ON S PEOPLE.BUY HERE. 03FUNNY BOYSHYAM SELVADURAISELVADURAI’S BUT NOVEL IS SET AGAST THE BACKDROP OF THE TA-SHALE NFLICT LEADG UP TO THE 1983 RTS AND IS A POIGNANT G-OF-AGE STORY ABOUT GROWG UP GAY COLOMBO. ARJIE CHELVARATNAM IS NSIRED ‘FUNNY’ BEE HE PREFERS TO DRS UP LIKE A GIRL AND PLAY “BRI-BRI” STEAD OF HANGG OUT WH THE BOYS AND KICKG BALLS AROUND. AS HE GROWS OLR, HE STGGL TO E TO TERMS WH HIS SEXUALY EVEN AS HIS WORLD IS TORN APART BY THE UNRT AROUND HIM. FUNNY BOY IS AN EVOTIVE NOVEL THAT MERG THE POLIL AND THE PERSONAL THROUGH SIMPLE YET ELEGANT PROSE.BUY HERE. 04
Abdi Nazemian was born Iran, where homosexual activy n be punished by whippg and, the se of serial offens, executn, and where even exprsn laws are dranian—however, sex reassignment surgery is legal and some s n be partially fund by the ernment. Nazemian only lived the untry for two years, movg around a lot, and now liv LA, where he’s a screenwrer (who thks “the pictn of gay men Hollywood is horrible”).
His but novel The Walk-In Closet, which won the Lambda Lerary Award for Debut Fictn 2015, is a edy about a woman who pretends to be her gay, Persian bt iend’s girliend—but how far will she go? There aren’t a lot of out, gay Iranians.