45 discsn posts. Charl said: ***Sce I've been bchg that what this fom needs is a short lson the history of the gay novel, i....
Contents:
- NU REVIEWS/RATGS FOR GAY NOVELS (BL, GL, ETC.)
- THE BACKLOT GAY BOOK FOM DISCSN
- 60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
NU REVIEWS/RATGS FOR GAY NOVELS (BL, GL, ETC.)
Stori by, for, and/or about Gay and Bi Young People. * gay novel forum *
Homophobia, unfortunately, is still pretty prevalent here NU, though isn't somethg you directly see so also isn't somethg you uld jt openly discs, but exists. I've read several ttimoni regardg bl, gl translators beg sent ath threats for translatg 'trash' and pretty much sayg that they should stop promotg gay novels bee 's dEtRimeNtAl to society. I'm not sayg all 1 star ratgs were ma by homophobics, so let's skip to that 'not everyone' ment.
THE BACKLOT GAY BOOK FOM DISCSN
**[image error]*[image error]Sce I've been bchg that what this fom needs is a short lson the history of the gay novel, i. You click your Kdle or Nook "on, " and beg to download an almost unlimed variety of gay lerature: ser, fantastic, erotic (each often masqueradg one as the other. ) So, a spir of gratu, perhaps we n take a quick glance over our shoulrs, tip our hats, and murmur a heartfelt "thank you" to those men (and pecially those women) who helped batter down the societal g that imprisoned (figuratively and lerally) all of our "bent, " and ma today's gay lerature surge appear to have e a very *five me* straight a uple of guil need to be set out: First, and most important, this isn't a ntt for anyone's very most favort novel or seri, ever read any of our relatively short readg reers.
Sendly, and lastly, nothg is really out-of-bounds, as long as enpass some aspect of gay and lbian world history and you n make a se for .
)Sce I kicked this snowball down the Matterhorn, I'll go first:***********1978***********One of the most important works of gay lerature, this hntg, brilliant novel is a seric remembrance of thgs past -- and still poignantly prent. It picts the adventur of Malone, a betiful young man searchg for love amid New York's emergg gay scene.
60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
Hilar, wty, and ultimately heartbreakg, Dancer From the Dance is tthful, provotive, outrageo fictn told a voice as close to lghter as to novel revolv around two ma characters: Anthony Malone, a young man om the Midwt who leav behd his “straight” life as a lawyer to immerse himself the gay life of 1970s New York, and Andrew Sutherland, varly scribed as a speed addict, a sociale, and a drag queen. And, yet, 's as pletely accsible to a young man today as was to my younger self moong over fashn, dancg and, of urse, men, back when the book was, que lerally, is Gay Life 101.
"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. "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.
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.