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Celebrate wh the bt LGBTQ books and books wh gay characters or om LGBTQ thors. Empower yourself by addg the spirg books to your readg list.

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13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

Books shelved as genre-gay-fictn: Hotel Regenbogen by Neela Faye, All easy?! by Eve Flavian, Janours Sekretär by Eve Flavian, Kristallsche by Eve F... * good gay fiction *

In the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (based on the mt read non-fictn book by Vo Rso), the narrator explas, “Hollywood…tght straight people what to thk about gays and gay people what to thk about themselv.

This ternatnally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the ey of Js Goldberg, a mascule girl growg up the McCarthy era and g out as a young butch lbian the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-llar town. Baldw’s hntg and ntroversial send novel is his most staed treatment of sexualy, and a classic of gay lerature.

Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them by Tony Khner. Rt Grrl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gag some legimacy, but the queers are rtg agast assiatn; cktail AIDS dgs are startg to work, and the cy walls on eher si of the Ma are spray-pated wh the words YES or NO. Lucky and her hband, Krishna, are gay.

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But the two s of their iendship, om the first stirrgs of gay liberatn through the tastrophe of AIDS, Jack remas voted to Will. A few weeks before he leav for universy, however, he forms a close bond wh Sediba, one of his childhood iends, nfirmg his long-held spicn that he is gay.

Peter’s own journey is obstcted by playground bulli, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-prent shadow of his Che father. No one knows except Meredh, his bt his father accintally disvers Ni is gay, the fallout is btal and swift. 2022-releas, achillean, adult-fictn, bisexual, gay, lbian, lgbtq, mlm, nonfictn, queer, sapphic, transgenr, wlw, ya-fictn.

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Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad.

"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. " Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. "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.

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