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Contents:
- 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
- GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
- PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
- CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
- 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
Stori by, for, and/or about Gay and Bi Young People. * male gay authors *
fictn, gay, gay-fictn, gay-romance, genre-fictn, lgbtq, love, m-m, male, male-thor, men, queer, romance, transgenr. Their varly humane and hilar portras of queerns and same-sex love and lt—and the everyday liv of those who experience them—are illumatg, whether you’re gay, straight, or somewhere between.
Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021). Michael ChabonChabon has long had a gay followg due to his 1988 novel The Mysteri of Ptsburgh, which featur a protagonist who has both homosexual and heterosexual enunters. Many of his later works feature gay characters, though their sexualy is ambient rather than LorLor’s wrg reflects her experience as a Black lbian and a mother.
The closens of the iendship between the two young men hts at homosexualy. Wgh’s own homosexual relatnships lend crence to that terpretatn.
GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
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Christopher IsherwoodIsherwood, 1966Camera Prs/Pictorial ParaIsherwood’s 1964 novel A Sgle Man follows a gay man grievg for his lover over the urse of a day. Armistead MpMp’s effervcent novels about gay life San Francis, startg wh Tal of the Cy (1978), brought to life a i foreign to much of the JordanJordan primarily wrote through the lens of bisexualy and racial jtice.
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. He often nied that there was any homoerotic subtext his wrg, yet those who knew him claimed that their relatnships, he was rather ank about his sexualy. Osr Wil (who also appears on this list), after meetg Whman 1882, was adamant that Whman was gay, and even told the activist Gee Cecil Iv, “I have the kiss of Walt Whman still on my lips.
PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-thors: Adventure-Pom! by Sean Dryn, On Earth We're Briefly Geo by Ocean Vuong, L'importanza di sere onto by Osr Wil... * male gay authors *
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. Locke was gay, and acted as a mentor and role mol to several other gay members of the Harlem Renaissance, cludg Countee Cullen, who appears on this list. García Lor was gay, and due to his cln of homoromantic them his work, he was heavily censored durg his lifetime—his work was generally banned Spa until 1953.
CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
<p>Pl Burston is a journalist and wrer. His first novel, Shamels, was scribed by Will Self as "the sharp tth about gay London" and is now available paperback</p> * male gay authors *
He was a target of Spa’s Fran-era ernment; official reports scribe García Lor as a “socialist” and participant “homosexual and abnormal practic.
Like Whman, is believed that he worked homoromantic subtext to many of his works, but some bgraphers argue that Hugh may have been asexual. In 1956, Baldw published Gvanni’s Room, a novel that drew tense attentn and cricism for s portrayal of homosexualy and bisexualy and is often ced as one of the most important queer novels ever wrten.
25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
In the 70s and 80s, Baldw boldly and openly wrote about homosexualy and homophobia several says.
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.