25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About - Disver Walks Blog

Contents:

• 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
• THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
• GAY MEN'S LERATURE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Bgraphers have ntually bated Whman’s sexual orientatn; his poetry, particularly Leav of Grass, which faced ser censorship after s publitn, ntas several homoerotic imag, however others argue that this was untentnal. Dorian Gray was origally published Lipptt’s Monthly Magaze, and drew such harsh cricism for s pictn of “immoraly, ” (one character the novel exprs a potentially romantic fatuatn for another male character) that when was later re-published as a book, Wil toned down the novel’s homoerotic subtext.

Capote was openly gay, and while he was never much of an active participant the gay rights movement, the openns wh which he exprsed his inty njunctn wh his level of celebry was an important tone queer history.

THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Known for his grim and often btal sense of humor, Sullivan once wrote, “I took a certa pleasure rmg the genr clic that even though their program told me I uld not live as a Gay man, looks like I’m gog to die like one.

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 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.

GAY MEN'S LERATURE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

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. Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy.

GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE

Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect. Wonrful book, " gay refugee activist and lumnist Danny Ramadan rav about the global-md book unpacks the emotnal life of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian civil war who begs a gut-wrenchg affair wh a fellow refugee.

Dalloway, a novel to which Cunngham pays homage; mid-20th-century Los Angel, hoewife Lra Brown, disntented wh her life, nonts her attractn to women; and 1990s New York Cy, Clarissa Vghan, who is lbian, plans a party for her bt iend, wrer Richard Brown, a gay man dyg of AIDS. In 2020, an attempt was ma to rever rerds om the LAPD, only to disver they had been stroyed at some pot, makg Rechy’s scriptn his novel the only origal acunt of the event nsired by some to be the first gay uprisg the U.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Mrice follows protagonist Mrice Hall, who disvers that he is gay while studyg at Cambridge and go on to stggle wh his queerns throughout his life — experiencg ternalized homophobia, heartbreak, blackmail, and love.

This is what spired him to wre the fairy tale of sorts that is this book, a seri of vigt that pat the story of a group of gay men, femists, drag queens, lbians, queer men, and more who live, produce art, have sex, and wa for a revolutn as they’re led by a clg patriarchal empire. Ultimately, Kramer’s cricism of gay promiscuy and cisg culture stck a nerve and was seen as harsh, but his portrayal of a muny takg too many risks has grown more accepted sce the revelatns of the AIDS crisis. Jason, Kyle, and Nelson are three high school teens stgglg wh their queer inti — Jason is the classic jock, a basketball team star who has a lot to lose if he adms he’s bisexual; Kyle is gay but hop no one, pecially his parents, ever fds out; and Nelson is the first his gra to be fully out of the closet, thanks part to a supportive mom.

Some reviewers (a b optimistilly) say that much of the bullyg or homophobia they experience isn’t relevant today, but the tth is, many young queer people are still stgglg to navigate an tolerant world packed wh toxic masculy. In this book set 1960s Nigeria, a Christian Igbo girl named Ijeoma disvers her love for a Mlim Hsa girl named Ama, only to face extreme homophobia and prsure om her fay to bee heterosexual and f properly wh what is expected om her.

HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

This short read is the first novel by an Equatorial Guean woman to be translated to English — but while is still ocsnally sold the untry, the book is officially banned Equatorial Guea due to s gay protagonist. In A Country for Dyg, Taïa wr of a Morocn prostute, Zahira, and the people who take refuge by her si — om Aziz, who is transng to life as a woman and wants Zahira to choose her new name, to a gay Iranian revolutnary and refugee, to Allal, Zahira’s first love.

From his own personal story of g to New York as a gay man 1978 to the vastatg impact of the vis to the biased news articl to the foundg of ACT UP and TAG, France vers wh credible tail and heart the story of the activists, doctors, lobbyists, and more who fought agast all the prsure and ristance of the system around them to fd a way to stop this horror s tracks. The powerful, hont, and lyril memoir is about all the vlence that has been leveled agast him over the years for beg Black and gay, but also about love and survival, and about his plex relatnship wh his mother and grandmother. It was a lnchg pot for the Beat poets, but was also ccial for tablishg the ia that a homosexual work uld not be banned on grounds of obsceny if had reemg social importance and did not have a “substantial tenncy to prave or rpt s rears.

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