LGBTQIA: Gay Fictn & Lerature | Los Angel Public Library

Contents:

• FEATURED SHORT STORI FICTN
• VTAGE GAY FICTN
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• BT GAY SHORT FICTN ANTHOLOGI
• GAY FICTN (VAR GENR)
• LGBTQIA: GAY FICTN & LERATURE
• PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS

FEATURED SHORT STORI FICTN

The Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Mistn of Cameron Post have been turned to blockbter films, and jt about every YA agent out there has “own-voic LGBTQ+ stori” on their mancript wish list.

In the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (based on the mt read non-fictn book by Vo Rso), the narrator explas, “Hollywood…tght straight people what to thk about gays and gay people what to thk about themselv.

This ternatnally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the ey of Js Goldberg, a mascule girl growg up the McCarthy era and g out as a young butch lbian the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-llar town. Baldw’s hntg and ntroversial send novel is his most staed treatment of sexualy, and a classic of gay lerature. Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them by Tony Khner.

VTAGE GAY FICTN

Rt Grrl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gag some legimacy, but the queers are rtg agast assiatn; cktail AIDS dgs are startg to work, and the cy walls on eher si of the Ma are spray-pated wh the words YES or NO. Lucky and her hband, Krishna, are gay.

But the two s of their iendship, om the first stirrgs of gay liberatn through the tastrophe of AIDS, Jack remas voted to Will. A few weeks before he leav for universy, however, he forms a close bond wh Sediba, one of his childhood iends, nfirmg his long-held spicn that he is gay. Peter’s own journey is obstcted by playground bulli, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-prent shadow of his Che father.

No one knows except Meredh, his bt his father accintally disvers Ni is gay, the fallout is btal and swift.

13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

Black Like Us: a Century of Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Ain Amerin Fictn ed. Gay Erotic Stori. BxB Short Stori8 pag July 21, 2019 Kotatsu A scrap llectn of boy x boy/gay scen that I’m ntemplatg on Moments10 pag 6 months ago Atlas A pilatn of small moments about a ltle and his retaker, who happens to be his Is Fair In Fluff116 pag Completed December 23, 2020 WistfulSki A llectn of gay fluff-one shots.

A Gay Man Speaks Out. Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad.

BT GAY SHORT FICTN ANTHOLOGI

"There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety. " Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. "Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life.

GAY FICTN (VAR GENR)

Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy. 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. The thor of Night Drop, Marshall Thornton lled the novel "the origal gay romance.

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. Hollghurst set his pen on the sexual hypocrisi of homophobic policians, many of whom had their own discretns behd closed doors. The book follows Nick Gut, a gay graduate stunt unofficially adopted by the fay of a schoolmate.

LGBTQIA: GAY FICTN & LERATURE

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.

The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici. Cy of Night, a 1963 novel by John Rechy, is a semal piece of fictn that follows the life of a gay htler New York Cy, Los Angel, New Orleans, and San Francis. "This epic chronicle of gay culture the Amerin sixti is as far-reachg as is important, givg a glimpse to inty and motive, " affirmed SJ Sdu, the thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li.

Gay lerature was forever changed the day Mary Ann Sgleton first met her transgenr landlady, Anna Madrigal, when she moved to San Francis's 28 Barbary Lane.

PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS

The 1982 book by Edmund Whe, which begs wh the first sexual enunter of a 15-year-old boy, is based on his own experienc g to terms wh his gay inty as a youth the Midwtern Uned Stat.

Whe would later wre two addnal novels, The Betiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997), which follow his gay protagonist to young adulthood. Together, they form a poignant trilogy that chronicl a gay life the latter half of the 20th century. Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy.

Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect.