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Bt Gay Prison Romanc. Books featurg gay (m/m) characters prisons, or recently released om prison and on parole.

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More gay prison books... 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.

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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.

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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 gay lerary classic, and rightly so.

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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.

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"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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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.

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