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CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

Stori by, for, and/or about Gay and Bi Young People. * gay male literature *

Lynn Harris (312 pi)Sock by Penn Jillette (310 pi)Comfort & Joy by Jim Grimsley (309 pi)The Dreyf Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefurt (306 pi)The Pengu Book of Gay Short Stori by David Leavt (300 pi)The Back Passage by Jam Lear (298 pi)Mart and John by Dale Peck (298 pi)The Whe Book by Jean Cocte (294 pi)The Ltle Death by Michael Nava (291 pi)Afterlife by Pl Mote (291 pi)A Dangero Thg by Josh Lanyon (291 pi)The Fancy Dancer: A Novel by Patricia Nell Warren (286 pi)The Weekend by Peter Cameron (285 pi)Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan (284 pi)Death Claims by Joseph Hansen (281 pi)I've a Feelg We're Not Kansas Anymore by Ethan Mordn (278 pi)Halfway Home by Pl Mote (278 pi)Unirn Mounta by Michael Bishop (275 pi)Death Trick by Richard Stevenson (271 pi)Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen (267 pi)My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan (262 pi)Cast the First Stone by Chter B. By Ethan Mordn (260 pi)Nights Aba by Andrew Holleran (260 pi)Amerin Studi by Mark Merlis (258 pi)Fairy Tal: Tradnal Stori Retold for Gay Men by Peter Cashorali (255 pi)Harlan's Race by Patricia Nell Warren (253 pi)Pk Slip by Ra Ciri (252 pi)The Brothers Bishop by Bart Yat (251 pi)Buddi by Ethan Mordn (251 pi)Farewell My Concube by Lilian Lee (247 pi)Tim and Pete: A Novel by Jam Robert Baker (243 pi)Te Enough by Stephen McCley (243 pi)The First Verse by Barry McCrea (242 pi)Golnboy by Michael Nava (239 pi)Skflick by Joseph Hansen (238 pi)Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanber (237 pi)Men on Men: Bt New Gay Fictn by Gee Stambolian (234 pi)Now and Then by William Corlett (234 pi)The Man Everybody Was Aaid Of by Joseph Hansen (232 pi)Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg (231 pi)Closet Case by Robert Rodi (230 pi)Fag Hag by Robert Rodi (230 pi)The Lure by Felice Pino (229 pi)The Vlet Quill Rear: The Emergence of Gay Wrg After… by David Bergman (226 pi)Numbers by John Rechy (221 pi)A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen (219 pi)Surprisg Myself by Christopher Bram (218 pi)Boy Culture by Matthew Rettenmund (218 pi)Last Summer by Michael Thomas Ford (216 pi)How Town by Michael Nava (213 pi)Wrong: Stori by Dennis Cooper (210 pi)Nightwork by Joseph Hansen (210 pi)Bendg the Landspe: Fantasy by Nila Griffh (208 pi)The God Flight by Lra Argiri (207 pi)Lookg For It by Michael Thomas Ford (205 pi)Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen (203 pi)Men on Men 3: Bt New Gay Fictn by Gee Stambolian (202 pi)The Hidn Law by Michael Nava (201 pi)Men on Men 2: Bt New Gay Fictn by Gee Stambolian (201 pi)Third Man Out by Richard Stevenson (200 pi)Ice Blu by Richard Stevenson (200 pi)Gaywyck by Vcent Virga (200 pi)Everybody Lov You by Ethan Mordn (199 pi)Spontaneo Combtn by David B. Carroll (Stonewall Inn Edns) by Pl Mote (192 pi)The Cy and the Pillar {origal} by Gore Vidal (190 pi)The Ltle Dog Lghed by Joseph Hansen (189 pi)Travelg Light by Katra Ktle (189 pi)Livg Upstairs by Joseph Hansen (188 pi)Gossip by Christopher Bram (186 pi)The Death of Friends by Michael Nava (182 pi)What They Did to Prcs Paragon by Robert Rodi (180 pi)The Dire & Pursu of the Whole by Frerick Rolfe (178 pi)Allan Ste by Matthew Stadler (177 pi)In September, the Light Chang: The Stori of Andrew… by Andrew Holleran (177 pi)Rag and Bone by Michael Nava (177 pi)Dancg on Tisha B'av by Lev Raphael (176 pi)Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelbe (175 pi)Kept Boy by Robert Rodi (175 pi)Some Men Are Lookers by Ethan Mordn (173 pi)In Another Part of the Fort: An Anthology of Gay Short… by Alberto Manguel (172 pi)Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lbian and Gay Science… by Cala Dern (169 pi)One for the Gods by Gordon Merrick (168 pi)The Bety Queen by Patricia Nell Warren (168 pi)On the Other Hand, Death by Richard Stevenson (168 pi)Obedience by Joseph Hansen (167 pi)Surrenr, Dorothy by Meg Wolzer (166 pi)Simple Jtice by John Man Wilson (163 pi)B-boy Blu by Jam Earl Hardy (163 pi)Profane Friendship by Harold Brodkey (162 pi)Drag Queen by Robert Rodi (161 pi)A Shock to the System by Richard Stevenson (160 pi)In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram (160 pi)Almost History by Christopher Bram (159 pi)Where The Boys Are by William J.

Zimmerman (133 pi)Man About Town by Mark Merlis (133 pi)The Catholic by David Plante (132 pi)The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby (132 pi)The Green Carnatn by Robert Hichens (131 pi)Name Gam by Michael Craft (131 pi)So Fey: Queer Fairy Fictn by Steve Berman (130 pi)Tapas on the Ramblas by Anthony Bidulka (130 pi)Why We Never Danced the Charlton by Harlan Greene (130 pi)The Movie Lover by Richard Friel (129 pi)My Bt Man by Andy Schell (129 pi)Song of the Loon by Richard Amory (128 pi)Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Douglas Sadownick (127 pi)The Only Good Prit by Mark Richard Zubro (127 pi)Cha of Fools by Richard Stevenson (126 pi)Murr the Rue Dphe by Greg Herren (126 pi)Men on Men 6: Bt New Gay Fictn by David Bergman (125 pi)Love You To Death by Grant Michaels (124 pi)The Same Embrace: A Novel by Michael Lowenthal (124 pi)Aphrodisiac, fictn om Christopher Street by Christopher Street (124 pi)It Had to Be You by Timothy Jam Beck (123 pi)Radcliffe by David Storey (122 pi)Why Isn't Becky Twchell Dead?

21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW

By Mark Richard Zubro (121 pi)Someone Killed His Boyiend: A Summer of Sex, Sun and… by David Stas (121 pi)Eye Contact by Michael Craft (121 pi)Mae Wt Is Dead: Recent Lbian and Gay Fictn by Adam Mars-Jon (118 pi)Gettg Over Homer by Mark O'Donnell (118 pi)A Stone Boat by Andrew Solomon (118 pi)Tree Surgery for Begners by Patrick Gale (118 pi)Wav: An Anthology of New Gay Lerature by Ethan Mordn (117 pi)Whor of Lost Atlantis by Charl Bch (117 pi)He's The One by Timothy Jam Beck (117 pi)Body Language by Michael Craft (116 pi)Every Man for Himself by Orland Outland (116 pi)The Other persuasn: short fictn about gay men and women by Seymour Kleberg (116 pi)Boy Toy by Michael Craft (115 pi)Fahful Are the Wounds by May Sarton (114 pi)Vampire Thrall by Michael Schiefelbe (114 pi)Perfect Freedom by Gordon Merrick (114 pi)Black Like Us: A Century of Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual… by Devon W. Ellt (114 pi)One Dead Drag Queen by Mark Richard Zubro (114 pi)Sta of the Berry by Anthony Bidulka (113 pi)Sex and by Mark Richard Zubro (113 pi)Vanishg Rooms: A Novel by Melv Dixon (112 pi)Revisn of Jtice by John Man Wilson (111 pi)The Quirk by Gordon Merrick (111 pi)Buddy Babylon: The Autobgraphy of Buddy Cole by Stt Thompson (111 pi)Tricks of the Tra: A Novel: In Gay Hollywood, It's Not… by Ben Tyler (111 pi)Jackson Square Jazz by Greg Herren (111 pi)An Echo of Death by Mark Richard Zubro (111 pi)An Idol for Others by Gordon Merrick (109 pi)Strachey's Folly by Richard Stevenson (109 pi)Fool's Errand by Louis Bayard (109 pi)The Death of a Constant Lover by Lev Raphael (108 pi)Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson (108 pi)Polil Poison by Mark Richard Zubro (108 pi)Rent Boy (High Risk Books) by Gary Indiana (107 pi)The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stori (Stonewall Inn… by Allen Bart (107 pi)Shamels by Pl Burston (107 pi)Rt on the Razor by Mark Richard Zubro (107 pi)Jtice at Risk by John Man Wilson (106 pi)Sundowner Ubuntu by Anthony Bidulka (106 pi)Margery Kempe (High Risk Books) by Robert Glück (105 pi)Selfish and Perverse by Bob Smh (104 pi)Jeremy Thrane: A Novel by Kate Christensen (104 pi)Life Drawg by Michael Gmley (103 pi)The Prcipal Cse of Death by Mark Richard Zubro (103 pi)Death's Head by Mel Keegan (103 pi)Bch Slap by Michael Craft (102 pi)The Wrong People by Rob Mgham (102 pi)Time to Check Out by Grant Michaels (102 pi)The Drag Queen of Elfland: Short Stori by Lawrence Schimel (101 pi)Common Sons by Ronald L.

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

Mann (99 pi)The Long Fallg by Keh Ridgway (99 pi)Sweetheart by Peter McGehee (98 pi)Tongue Tied by Richard Stevenson (98 pi)The Tth Can Get You Killed by Mark Richard Zubro (98 pi)Now Let's Talk About Mic by Gordon Merrick (98 pi)The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stori by Peter Burton (98 pi)The Language We Use Up Here and Other Stori by Philip Gambone (97 pi)Waters of Thirst by Adam Mars-Jon (96 pi)The Actor's Gui to Murr by Rick Copp (96 pi)The Goln Age of Promiscuy by Brad Gooch (96 pi)Changg Pch by Steve Kluger (96 pi)Pawn To Queen Four by Lars Eighner (95 pi)Gettg Off Clean by Timothy Murphy (95 pi)The Man Who Unrstood Cats by Michael Allen Dymmoch (95 pi)Any Kd Of Luck by William Jack Sibley (95 pi)Bld Items: A (Love) Story by Matthew Rettenmund (95 pi)The Stone of Lghter by Hoda Barakat (94 pi)The Venice Adriana by Ethan Mordn (94 pi)Stud by Samuel M. By Ethan Mordn (93 pi)Bound In Blood: The Erotic Journey of a Vampire by David Thomas Lord (93 pi)Bld Eye by John Man Wilson (93 pi)The Wateront Journals by David Wojnarowicz (92 pi)Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fictn by Michael Rowe (92 pi)When Love Com to Town by Tom Lennon (92 pi)The Night We Met by Rob Byrn (91 pi)The Summer They Came by William Storandt (91 pi)Male Mol by Dave Benbow (91 pi)Swch Hters: Lbians Wre Gay Male Eroti and Gay Men… by Carol Queen (91 pi)Vampire Transgrsn by Michael Schiefelbe (90 pi)Grown Folks Bs: A Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray (90 pi)Different People by Orland Outland (89 pi)Someone Like You by Timothy Jam Beck (89 pi)Gay Blas by Ben Tyler (88 pi)When The Stars Come Out by Rob Byrn (88 pi)Wgs by Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzm (88 pi)Everyone's Dead But Us by Mark Richard Zubro (87 pi)Dupont Circle: A Novel by Pl Kafka-Gibbons (87 pi)I Once Had a Master by John Prton (87 pi)Government Gay by Fred Hunter (86 pi)Daytime Drama by Dave Benbow (86 pi)Boston Boys Club by Johnny Diaz (86 pi)The Actor's Gui to Adultery by Rick Copp (86 pi)One Last Waltz by Ethan Mordn (86 pi)Say Uncle: A Novel by Eric Shaw Qun (86 pi)Endangered Speci by Louis Bayard (85 pi)Firelands: A Novel by Michael Jensen (85 pi)Mns of the Moon by Richard Bow (84 pi)Cold Hands by Joseph Ptro (84 pi)Murr the Rue St. Ann by Greg Herren (84 pi)Hot Sce by Stt Pomet (84 pi)Nerds Who Kill by Mark Richard Zubro (84 pi)Capal Queers by Fred Hunter (84 pi)Everythg I Have Is Blue: Short Fictn by Workg-Class… by Wenll Ricketts (83 pi)Lookg Glass Liv by Felice Pino (83 pi)Sha: An Anthology of Fictn by Gay Men of Ain… by Bce Morrow (83 pi)Frh Men: New Voic Gay Fictn by Edmund Whe (83 pi)Pagan Babi by Greg Johnson (82 pi)File Unr Dead by Mark Richard Zubro (82 pi)Here Com the Corpse by Mark Richard Zubro (82 pi)Closg Distance by Jim Oliver (82 pi)2nd Time Around by Jam Earl Hardy (82 pi)Good Boys: A Novel (Plume Books) by Pl Reidger (82 pi)The Beloved Son by Jay Qun (82 pi)As If After Sex by Joseph Torchia (81 pi)Bch Godss by Robert Rodi (81 pi)Schooled Murr by Mark Richard Zubro (81 pi)Moth and Flame by John Man Wilson (80 pi)Gog Down for the Count by David Stas (80 pi)Dead Egotistil Morons by Mark Richard Zubro (80 pi)His: Brilliant New Fictn by Gay Wrers by Robert Drake (79 pi)Biceps of Death by David Stas (79 pi)Onyx by Felice Pino (79 pi)Love Rus Everythg by Karen X.

And Stefan… by Lutz van Dijk (73 pi)Comg Out by Wallace Haton (73 pi)The Heart Exile by Rodney Garland (73 pi)Lavenr Mansns: 40 Contemporary Lbian and Gay Short… by Irene Zahava (72 pi)Where the Rabow Ends by Jamon Currier (72 pi)The Mammoth Book of Gay Eroti by Lawrence Schimel (72 pi)Bt Gay Love Stori 2005 [Anthology] by Nick Street (72 pi)soon to be a major motn picture by Warren Dunford (72 pi)Alex Wonrland by Michel Lacroix (71 pi)When You Were Me by Robert Rodi (71 pi)A Queer Kd of Love by Gee Baxt (71 pi)Wearg Black to the Whe Party by David Stas (71 pi)Imre: A Memorandum by Edward Prime-Stevenson (70 pi)If Only for One Ne by Jam Earl Hardy (70 pi)What Love Means to You People by NancyKay Shapiro (70 pi)Different: An Anthology of Homosexual Short Stori by Stephen Wright (69 pi)Confsns of a Casanova by Chris Kenry (69 pi)His 3: Brilliant New Fictn by Gay Wrers by Robert Drake (69 pi)The Exile of Capri by Roger Peyrefte (69 pi)The Big Book of Misunrstandg by Jim Gladstone (69 pi)The Devil and Daniel Silverman by Theodore Roszak (69 pi)Eight Days a Week by Larry Duplechan (69 pi)Vanas by Joseph Olshan (69 pi)Letters om the Closet by Tony Ferrante (69 pi)The Deal: A Novel by Timothy J.

SUBJECT: GAY MEN FICTN

Lambert (68 pi)Native: A Novel by William Haywood Henrson (68 pi)Island People (Amerin Lerature Seri (Reprt of 1976… by Coleman Dowell (68 pi)Gog Down La-La Land by Andy Zeffer (67 pi)Shadows of Love: Amerin Gay Fictn by Charl Jurrist (66 pi)What I Did Wrong by John Weir (66 pi)The Gay Neti: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Fictn by Phil Willkie (65 pi)My Deep Dark Pa Is Love: A Collectn of Lat Amerin… by Wston Leyland (65 pi)The Good Life by Gordon Merrick (65 pi)Midnight Thirsts by Greg Herren (64 pi)His 2: Brilliant New Fictn by Gay Wrers by Robert Drake (63 pi)The Feathers of Death by Simon Raven (63 pi)Queer View Mirror: Lbian and Gay Short Short Fictn by Jam C. Johnstone (63 pi)The Chicken Asylum by Fred Hunter (62 pi)Capta Swg by Larry Duplechan (62 pi)It Tak Two by Elltt Mackle (62 pi)The Hnted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack (62 pi)Love the One You're Wh by Jam Earl Hardy (61 pi)Still Life wh June: A Novel by Darren Greer (61 pi)Vadriel Vail by Vcent Virga (61 pi)Rebel Yell: Stori by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors by Jay Qun (61 pi)The Exquise Corpse by Aled Chter (60 pi)Entertament for a Master: A Novel by John Prton (60 pi)Dangero Dir by Peter Wells (60 pi)Diary of a Lost Boy: A Novel by Harry Kondoleon (60 pi)The P'Town Murrs by Jefey Round (60 pi)Time Remag by Jam McCourt (60 pi)Hot Livg: Erotic Stori about Safer Sex by John Prton (60 pi)The Butcher's Son by Dorien Grey (60 pi)Elf Child by David M.

Pierce (59 pi)Hot Rocks by Lev Raphael (58 pi)Certa Voic by Darryl Pilcher (58 pi)Uprisg by Randy Boyd (58 pi)Hard by Wayne Hoffman (58 pi)Rebel Yell 2: More Stori of Contemporary Gay Southern Men by Jay Qun (58 pi)Ltle Miss Evil by Lev Raphael (58 pi)One Dead Diva by Phillip Stt (58 pi)Gavton by Chris Hunt (57 pi)Home For The Day by Anrson Ferrell (57 pi)The Gay Detective by Lou Rand (57 pi)Man of My Dreams (Anthology 4--1) by Dave Benbow (57 pi)Not the Only One: Lbian and Gay Fictn for Teens by Jane Summer (56 pi)The Book of Boy Trouble: Gay Boy Comics wh a New Attu by Robert Kirby (56 pi)Summer Share by Chris Kenry (56 pi)Burng Down the Hoe by Lev Raphael (55 pi)Love's Last Chance by Krandall Krs (55 pi)Frh Men 2: New Voic Gay Fictn (v. Hartt (44 pi)Psy's Bow by Neal Drnan (44 pi)Beyond Machu by William Malte (44 pi)Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Eroti by Simon Sheppard (44 pi)Shadows of the Night: Queer Tal of the Unnny and… by Greg Herren (44 pi)Frictn: Bt Gay Erotic Fictn: 1998 by Gerry Kroll (44 pi)Me Dyg Trial (Caribbean Wrers Seri) by Patricia Powell (43 pi)The Boys the Bars by Christopher Davis (43 pi)Albert, or, The Book of Man by Perry Brass (42 pi)Bame Mucho: New Gay Lato Fictn by Jaime Manrique (42 pi)The Hired Man by Dorien Grey (41 pi)Masters' Counterpots by Larry Townsend (40 pi)Close Contact by Sean Wolfe (40 pi)A Ser Person by Orland Outland (39 pi)The Zombie P: Stori by Sam D'Allandro (39 pi)An Asian Mor: The Te Story of Ganyme by Felice Pino (39 pi)Queer View Mirror 2: Lbian and Gay Short Short Fictn… by Jam C. Rehart (34 pi)See Dick Denstct: Leroti for the Satirilly Bent by Ian Philips (34 pi)Kosher Meat by Lawrence Schimel (34 pi)The Dream Enr by Dorien Grey (33 pi)Wgs the Snow: A Novel by Jim Oliver (33 pi)Fabulo Hell: A Novel by Craig Curtis (33 pi)Bt of the Bt Gay Eroti by Richard Labonté (32 pi)Light at Dk by Peter Gadol (32 pi)The Voltaire Se and Other Stori by Ron Harvie (32 pi)Human Warmth and Other Stori by Daniel Curzon (32 pi)A Hoe Is Not a Home by Jam Earl Hardy (32 pi)Islands: A Collectn of Short Stori by David Re (32 pi)The Gay Touch: Short Stori by Peter Robs (32 pi)Frictn 7: Bt Gay Erotic Fictn by Jse Grant (31 pi)Charmed Liv: Gay Spir Storytellg by Toby Johnson (31 pi)The Popsicle Tree by Dorien Grey (31 pi)Out At The Old Ball Game: A Novel by Bernie Bookbr (31 pi)Two Boys Love by Lawrence Schimel (31 pi)Nothg Gold Can Stay by Casey Nelson (31 pi)Bear Lt: Hot, Hairy, Heavy Fictn by Ron Jackson Surha (31 pi)The I Q Zoo by Peter McGehee (31 pi)Dirty Words: Provotive Eroti by M.

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