Fd out the 25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About 1. Osr Wil 2. Jam Baldw 3. Tennsee Williams 4. Gore Vidal 5. Edmund Whe.
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25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
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Their varly humane and hilar portras of queerns and same-sex love and lt—and the everyday liv of those who experience them—are illumatg, whether you’re gay, straight, or somewhere between. Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021).
Michael ChabonChabon has long had a gay followg due to his 1988 novel The Mysteri of Ptsburgh, which featur a protagonist who has both homosexual and heterosexual enunters. Many of his later works feature gay characters, though their sexualy is ambient rather than LorLor’s wrg reflects her experience as a Black lbian and a mother. The closens of the iendship between the two young men hts at homosexualy.
Wgh’s own homosexual relatnships lend crence to that terpretatn. Christopher IsherwoodIsherwood, 1966Camera Prs/Pictorial ParaIsherwood’s 1964 novel A Sgle Man follows a gay man grievg for his lover over the urse of a day. Armistead MpMp’s effervcent novels about gay life San Francis, startg wh Tal of the Cy (1978), brought to life a i foreign to much of the JordanJordan primarily wrote through the lens of bisexualy and racial jtice.
GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
No list of LGBTQ wrers n claim to be exhstive, as the history of queer wrg is the story of lerature self, om the very first novel, Satyrin by Petroni, beg a masterpiece of gay them. But even the morn vanguard of LGBTQ thors has had to ntend wh changg social mor, censorship, and even ath untri where homosexualy is still illegal or otherwise dangero.
A., but ntu to return to Persian them, as the Lambda Lerary Award-wng The Walk- Closet om 2015, which a woman pos as her gay bt iend’s girliend. One of the first novels om Iran to al explicly wh gay them, is a treasure of a novel and a ttament to the urage of s thor, whose home untry als harshly wh s homosexual populatn, the very existence of which was nied by Print Mahmoud Ahmadejad 2007. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN Traverse Stland’s most scenic landsp, om wt ast to east, travellg by rail View Trip Fun Home by Alison Bechl An tobgraphil graphic novel that won Alison Bechl a MacArthur Geni Grant and the basis of a Broadway mil, Fun Home is the story of the children of a funeral director father, himself a closeted homosexual, and the young Alison’s own stggl wh sexual inty.
Mundo Cel by Luis Negrón Luis Negrón’s story llectn Mundo Cel addrs the tight-kn world of Puerto Rin gay culture. Fgersmh by Sarah Waters Sarah Waters has done an enormo service to lerature, gay and otherwise, wh her exploratns of lbian love Victorian society. But her breakthrough, arguably, may be 2000’s Valencia, which brgs to life San Francis’s thrivg gay subculture, pictg sado-masochism and g-of-age stori through twenty-one vigte-like chapters where we meet such characters as the trospective poet Willa and Iris, a southern-raised butch adaptg to life the cy.