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- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- DONALD WDHAM WROTE THE ESSENTIAL GAY FICTN YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU WERE MISSG
IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
* essential gay reading *
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Books about the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or qutng (LGBTQ) experience have the power to te, spire, and empower rears both si, and outsi, the LGBTQ muny. Stand by Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn by Jim Downs. In Stand By Me, historian Jim Downs chronicl s of LGBTQ activism, om the Stonewall rts to the often fotten figur who lnched the gay rights movement.
Raised ral Pennsylvania by a closeted gay father, Bechl says Fun Hoe is as much about her journey as is her father’s. After her parents’ tragic ath, teenage protagonist Cameron Post nsol herself by realizg she never has to tell her parents she’s gay. This don’t stop others om learng the tth, though, which prompts Cameron’s nt to send her to a relig-based gay “nversn” mp, where the book’s plot unfolds.
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Whether you intify as lbian, bisexual, pansexual, gay, or queer—or somethg else entirely—you n learn somethg om Ask a Queer Chick’s bunkg of many romantic and sexual stereotyp female partnerships. In his 2018 llectn, Calypso, Sedaris reflects on many life benchmarks, cludg agg, g out, datg men, and married gay life. Judd Wick’s memoir, Pedro and Me, centers on another kd of love—that of his iendship wh his gay bt iend, Pedro Zamora.
The pair met on the third season of MTV’s The Real World: San Francis, where Zamora was the show’s first openly gay hoemate—and one of the first openly gay people on any televisn seri. Lynn Harris, who died 2009, was a popular Ain-Amerin thor, and nearly three s ago, he was one of the few openly gay black thors. But now, as the gay and trans civil rights movements progrs worldwi, new thors are penng morn masterpiec a time of growg love for the LGBTQ muny.
DONALD WDHAM WROTE THE ESSENTIAL GAY FICTN YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU WERE MISSG
That said, we’ve also clud classic books that explore the trmatic history of gay muni wh unflchg honty. English and Queer Studi om Vanrbilt Universy and won a Lambda Lerary Award Gay Studi for his first book The Isherwood Century 1999. He intifi as a gay man and tak the LGBTQ+ lerature space very serly.