Top 100 Gay Novels of the XXI century (932 books)

Contents:

• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
• THE 10 BT GAY FANTASY BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW!
• THE 20 BT GAY ROMANCE BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ ALREADY BY NOW!

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

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. 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.

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.

TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY

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. When Garrard Conley is outed by his parents, they make him attend a 12-step nversn therapy program to “cure” him of his homosexualy.

THE 10 BT GAY FANTASY BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW!

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). Advertisement - Contue Readg Below16Cy of Night by John Rechy16Cy of Night by John RechyNow 11% OffCred: Grove PrsTake a trip to the unrground world of gay htlers, drag queens, and sex workers this book that sndalized the lerary world when first me out but went on to bee a mt-read.

Simon & Schter Asylum: A Memoir & Manifto by Edafe OkporoSimon & Schter Asylum: A Memoir & Manifto by Edafe OkporoImmigratn and LGBTQ rights activist Okporo was 26 years old when he was driven om his home Abuja, Nigeria, for the s of beg gay. 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.

THE 20 BT GAY ROMANCE BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ ALREADY BY NOW!

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. 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.