<p>Pl Burston is a journalist and wrer. His first novel, Shamels, was scribed by Will Self as "the sharp tth about gay London" and is now available paperback</p>
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- 30 - ATRALIAN GAY AND LBIAN WRG
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
- THE FAY LIV OF ATRALIAN LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE: A REVIEW OF THE LERATURE AND A REARCH AGENDA
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Shared among gay iends, we uld celebrate our growg nfince and visibily wh new work om Alan Hollghurst and Jeate Wterson, velop a mp sensibily by quotg to each other l om EF Benson and Ronald Firbank, image that London uld bee the queer Ardia picted Armistead Mp’s Tal of the we moved towards assiatn the 1990s, Dennis Cooper’s Gee Mil novel cycle was a remr that sexualy was still transgrsive, that sire remaed a dark and disptive force. It’s a such a tenr moment and a remr of the kdns and nnectn that is possible between all of MenzAuthor of Rabow MilkCeremoni by Essex Hemphill (Pengu)The hugely fluential gay Ain Amerin poet Essex Hemphill died of Aids-related plitns 1995, aged 38, jt one month before the lnch of protease hibors – early antiretrovirals – which might have saved or at least prolonged his life. In the wrgs and radil cema he left behd – cludg llaboratns wh Marlon Riggs Tongu Untied (1989) and Isaac Julien Lookg for Langston (1989) – he provid subsequent generatns wh evince that we lived and loved, and of our fight agast the effects of tersectg whe supremacy, racism, homophobia and heterosexism.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
Well, 's Gay (or LGBT) Pri month the USA, and sce I don't thk we have a specific natnal month here, I thought I'd give a ltle shout out to some of our queer wrers. Now, I'm not sure about labellg, but Readgs bookshop posted three years ago on "queer reads", while Wikipedia has… * australian gay literature *
”Neil BartlettTheatre director, playwright and thor of novels cludg Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall and Addrs BookNocturn for the Kg of Napl by Edmund Whe (Pidor)In 1980, when I was livg a beds and “gay” was a word still largely spoken between ntemptuo verted mas, a chanced-upon newspaper review alerted me to the existence of an unknown Amerin wrer whose third book had jt ma to the UK. I very much look forward to her follow-up Brawyrms later the KayAward-wng Makar (Natnal Poet for Stland) and thor of fictn and nonfictn cludg Red Dt Road, Tmpet and Bsie SmhSister Outsir by Audre Lor (Pengu Classics)In an terview Ada Gay Griff and Michelle Parkerson’s 1995 documentary about her life, A Lany for Survival (the name of one of Lor’s semal poems), Audre Lor said prciently: “What I leave behd has a life of s own. I thk only a gay man would have had the patience to observe all the character typ, and renr them wh such unfettable, tty Atherton LEssayist and thor of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, which won the Natnal Book Crics Circle award for tobgraphyReady to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett (Serpent’s Tail, available on worldoarebooks)So often, boy-meets-boy narrativ take place some remote manor or tent, as if romance only occurs far om the maddg gay crowd.
This is surprisg nsirg that her ovre rang om the male homosocialy and homoeroticism of Mrice Gut (1908), to same-sex female sire her classic Bildungsroman, The Gettg of Wisdom (1910), and the almost spectral eroticism of the much lbian-anthologized short stori om “The Growg Pas” sectn of The End of a Childhood (1934), pecially “Two Hanged Women.
PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
”Bee of the tenncy among crics to set asi early texts which problematize (hetero)sexual inty, and to adm as “gay or lbian wrg” only those works which explicly foreground sexual relatnships, Kenh “Seaforth” Mackenzie’s The Young Dire It (1937) is often ced as the first Atralian homosexual novel, alg as do wh a teacher’s unfulfilled sire for his stunt. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
THE FAY LIV OF ATRALIAN LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE: A REVIEW OF THE LERATURE AND A REARCH AGENDA
“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.