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• GAY COMG OF AGE BOOKS
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• COMG OF AGE GAY ROMANCE BOOKS
• GAY COMG OF AGE
• GAY G-OF-AGE NOVELS FEATURG A BRIEF AND PASSNATE SECRET LOVE AFFAIR, TOLD RETROSPECTIVELY BEE 'S ALL ABOUT THE YEARNG AND BTER(SWEET?) TRAGEDY, I GUS
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GAY COMG OF AGE BOOKS

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r/gaybros. Gaybros is a work built for gay men who aren't nfed to a media stereotype. This gay g-of-age tale is nsired sential readg by s drov of voted fans, and is a betiful and powerful study of sire, longg, and the pa of first love — and first heartbreak.

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

Part memoir and part poetry, Ocean Vuong’s novel alternately follows three generatns — the thor’s mother, a PTSD-ridn Vietnam War survivor; his agg grandmother as she weav flights of fantasy; and his own trials as an immigrant the Uned Stat, and the persecutn he endur when he out as gay. Gay mystery novelist Greg Herren won the Moonbeam Award twice three years for his “ntributns to YA l”, and, like Nancy Garn, is no stranger to book banng.

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His two seri for adults, Chanse MacLeod mysteri and the Stty Bradley adventur, both feature gay private ey livg New Orleans.

Herren branched to YA and found he loved , wrg Sleepg Angel, about the murr of a gay high school stunt, touchg on issu of bullyg and suici young adults. Fourteen year old Rafael Fannen is a black kid stgglg to adjt to a mostly whe all-male Catholic high school on a mory scholarship, tryg to nnect wh his ex-n dad on weekends and his mentally ill mom every day, all while drillg the “no homo” mantra to his own head for his own prott-too-much reasons.

And then all crashg down when his mother starts to e unglued, Rafe is acced of beg the bad guy at school, and the mors start to spread about him beg gay. It’s every young, closeted/nfed gay, black boy’s worst nightmar, all at once. The Rabow books are all about sexual inty nfn, the real life of gay teens, first love, and acceptg who you – and your iends – are.

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Another the banned & burned books list, Frank Mos’s All Amerin Boys was donated, along wh Annie on my Md, to high schools Kansas Cy, Kansas; and after signifint parental objectn to the book’s gay them, both books were burned. Now tobgraphil graphic novels, The High School Chronicl of Ariel Schrag starts off wh Potential, which troduc to Ariel and her first real relatnship and first time fallg love wh a girl (while tryg to lose her virgy to a boy); Awkward tells of Ariel’s hman year, Defn, her sophomore year, and Likewise wraps all up wh that mythic of tim, the senr year. Lo’s books are lh fairytale, post-apolyptic creepers wrapped first-time-fallg gay love stori.

Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad. "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. Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy.

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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.

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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. 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.