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Contents:

• BT GAY PRISON ROMANC
• GAY PRISON
• GAY PRISON BOOKS
• PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
• “A CONVICT IS HUMAN TOO”: ON CHTER HIM’ GAY NOVEL
• ALPHA HOLE PRISON - ADULTS ONLY 18+ BL, YAOI, GAY, BARA VISUAL NOVEL / DATG SIM
• CHE THOR GETS 10 YEARS PRISON FOR 'OBSCENE' GAY NOVEL
• GAY SEX PRISON: THE 9-STORY BUNDLE PACK OF BEASTS, BCH AND BTAL SEX
• [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY

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His first novel, Shamels, was scribed by Will Self as "the sharp tth about gay London" and is now available Shamels at The Picture of Dorian Gray by Osr Wil (1891)Wil is often creded wh havg vented morn homosexualy and, Dorian Gray, he created an archetype - the betiful young man who sells his soul exchange for perpetual youth. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Ge (1943)For many gay men, Ge reprents a self-loathg homosexualy that went out of fashn wh the birth of gay liberatn. He was certaly a psimist, and one who would have had ltle sympathy wh the feelgood, flag-wavg gay polics of today.

Mp was the first wrer I ever read who prented gay characters as part of life's rich taptry, rather than as creatur habg a world all of their own. It's the happy mix of gay and straight characters that mak him so readable.

PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS

Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran (1978)Set agast the smoke-filled div and gay diss of 70s New York, Dancer From The Dance is a tale of doomed queens, profsnal faggots and the lonels of liv lived out unr the revolvg glter ball.

“A CONVICT IS HUMAN TOO”: ON CHTER HIM’ GAY NOVEL

A gay lerary classic, and rightly so. Lambasted by the gay prs for s allegedly 'negative' portrayal of London's gay muny, 's a far more hont acunt of gay life the big cy than you'll ever read any of the gay bar rags.

For some strange reason, certa gay men seem to have a problem lghg at themselv. It tells the story of four generatns of an Amerin immigrant fay and the var ways which the parents pe wh a gay child the fay and the gay child p wh the sire to create a fay of his own. Load by Christos Tslkas (1997)The tale of a screwed-up, 19-year-old Greek gay lad who go lookg for kicks suburban Melbourne, this is the kd of novel that you read one or two stgs.

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Two Gentlemen Sharg by William Corlett (1997)Two Gentlemen Sharg is one of the funnit gay novels I've read years.

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A edy of manners set a quiet village middle England, revolv around a st of lourful untry typ whose tolerance is tted by the arrival of two gay men settg up home together. 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.

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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 thor of Night Drop, Marshall Thornton lled the novel "the origal gay romance. Alan Hollghurst famoly qutned the future of the gay novel this year, which is strikg sce he's often viewed as helpg make queer books accsible to a mastream dience.

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Hollghurst set his pen on the sexual hypocrisi of homophobic policians, many of whom had their own discretns behd closed doors. The book follows Nick Gut, a gay graduate stunt unofficially adopted by the fay of a schoolmate.

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.

The book is remembered today for this legacy as well as for var them -- Hollywood's glass closet, beg gay the ary, the poisono effects of homophobia on society -- that still reverberate today. 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. Cy of Night, a 1963 novel by John Rechy, is a semal piece of fictn that follows the life of a gay htler New York Cy, Los Angel, New Orleans, and San Francis.