From the return of a legendary gay novelist to a blazg new memoir about parenthood, the are the queer books you should be readg this Pri Month—and beyond.
Contents:
- IN 1970, A GAY TECTIVE BUTED ‘FAOUT.’ HIS CREATOR’S STGGLE LIV ON.
- MOST POPULAR GAY ROMANCE MYSTERY ROMANCE BOOKS
IN 1970, A GAY TECTIVE BUTED ‘FAOUT.’ HIS CREATOR’S STGGLE LIV ON.
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In his wry acceptance speech—preced by an troductn om filmmaker John Waters who lled Whe a “lerary top”—Whe discsed the stggle of havg tried to publish gay fictn pre-Stonewall and even many s later; how his work was rejected for beg both too explic and too subtle, statg that the “faiar is more threateng than the exotic”; and how “only” took him half a century to go om one of the most maligned wrers Amerin letters to beg honored. This we know: Jeanna Kadlec has long been a champn for other queer wrers, a steadfast challenger to the many iqui of the media world, and a lightful live-tweeter of films filled wh gay subtext.
MOST POPULAR GAY ROMANCE MYSTERY ROMANCE BOOKS
” From the creator and star of the Netflix edy Special—adapted om the thor’s memoir about beg a gay man wh cerebral palsy— the story of a televisn wrer livg his supposed bt life (the aforementned betiful man wh the betiful penis, a job for which he mak “a dumb amount of money”) who’s nohels unable to settle to ntentment, a book about the pfalls and pratfalls of sirg external validatn and the importance of self-acceptance. The thor of the semal queer classic Dancer om the Dance returns wh a wi-eyed and wise novel about the ecstasi and agoni of beg an agg gay—how disorientg and vast the chasm is between feelg young and lookg young, the pas of a still-puerile sire vers the ach of a body cle. Set an alternate versn of Ameri which the weddg-dtrial plex has bee (even more) ranged—like, Midsommar-level ranged—Laskey’s eic send novel centers on Rob, a gay amic whose tranged straight iend asks her to be the maid of honor for her upg nuptials.
High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir by Edgar Gomez (Jan. From his uncle’s ckfightg rg Niragua to gay bars and bedrooms, Gomez’s lnhearted memoir chronicl g of age as a queer, Latx person, wrtlg wh a mdset that at once embrac and rejects the trappgs of machismo, navigatg love and lt the time of PrEP, and learng how to refe (and reclaim) pri.
In this dishy memoir, the r Tony Award-wng actor, playwright, and gay in reveals the trials and triumphs behd some of showbiz’s most lible productns and performanc. She dispatch her son, a chronilly sgle gay man who swore off public affairs and is wrg a mil about Joan Didn lled “Hello to All That! Andy is a closeted gay p who’s fired om the San Francis police force after he’s ught a raid at a gay bar.