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Contents:

• CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
• GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
• VTAGE GAY FICTN
• GAY CLASSIC BOOKS
• TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
• 20 CLASSIC WORKS OF GAY LERATURE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• THE 13 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

Classic, well wrten books that feature gay men or gay upl as the protagonists. Gay Fairy & Folk Tal: More Tradnal Stori Retold for Gay Men.

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GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE

Shared among gay iends, we uld celebrate our growg nfince and visibily wh new work om Alan Hollghurst and Jeate Wterson, velop a mp sensibily by quotg to each other l om EF Benson and Ronald Firbank, image that London uld bee the queer Ardia picted Armistead Mp’s Tal of the we moved towards assiatn the 1990s, Dennis Cooper’s Gee Mil novel cycle was a remr that sexualy was still transgrsive, that sire remaed a dark and disptive force.

It’s a such a tenr moment and a remr of the kdns and nnectn that is possible between all of MenzAuthor of Rabow MilkCeremoni by Essex Hemphill (Pengu)The hugely fluential gay Ain Amerin poet Essex Hemphill died of Aids-related plitns 1995, aged 38, jt one month before the lnch of protease hibors – early antiretrovirals – which might have saved or at least prolonged his life. In the wrgs and radil cema he left behd – cludg llaboratns wh Marlon Riggs Tongu Untied (1989) and Isaac Julien Lookg for Langston (1989) – he provid subsequent generatns wh evince that we lived and loved, and of our fight agast the effects of tersectg whe supremacy, racism, homophobia and heterosexism.

Gay Amerin men had barely one ’s grace between the liberatn movement and the begng of the Aids crisis, which Hemphill wrote about as vally as anyone.

VTAGE GAY FICTN

The value of the novel is the way normalis the gay relatnship. There is an element of dullns and ordars about them that is unual a novel of that time that has homosexualy at the foreont. Although homosexualy was illegal Ireland then, the ps tend to leave gay people alone.

Brorick’s novel is an important document that dramatis hidn gay liv the Dubl of 40 years CreweDebut novel The New Life was published this yearFrank Sargon’s Collected Stori, 1935-1963 (Pengu)Frank Sargon’s short stori are nversatnal. In 1929 Sargon had been nvicted of mtg homosexual acts, and he wrote unr an assumed name (he was born Norris Davey 1903) to avoid beg nnected wh his past. ”Neil BartlettTheatre director, playwright and thor of novels cludg Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall and Addrs BookNocturn for the Kg of Napl by Edmund Whe (Pidor)In 1980, when I was livg a beds and “gay” was a word still largely spoken between ntemptuo verted mas, a chanced-upon newspaper review alerted me to the existence of an unknown Amerin wrer whose third book had jt ma to the UK.

Simply, had never occurred to me that gay life uld be this betiful, or this real. I very much look forward to her follow-up Brawyrms later the KayAward-wng Makar (Natnal Poet for Stland) and thor of fictn and nonfictn cludg Red Dt Road, Tmpet and Bsie SmhSister Outsir by Audre Lor (Pengu Classics)In an terview Ada Gay Griff and Michelle Parkerson’s 1995 documentary about her life, A Lany for Survival (the name of one of Lor’s semal poems), Audre Lor said prciently: “What I leave behd has a life of s own.

GAY CLASSIC BOOKS

He was the epome of the upright, public-spired, homosexual expat, nductg a distguished reer om Alexandria and Athens – two of his bt novels are about life Alexandria, wh illic passn throbbg unr the rtraed surface. I thk only a gay man would have had the patience to observe all the character typ, and renr them wh such unfettable, tty Atherton LEssayist and thor of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, which won the Natnal Book Crics Circle award for tobgraphyReady to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett (Serpent’s Tail, available on worldoarebooks)So often, boy-meets-boy narrativ take place some remote manor or tent, as if romance only occurs far om the maddg gay crowd. The social circle extends to proto-gay ghosts, well-wishers and voyrs om across history who gather around the matrimonial bed.

Bartlett njur agels sensibili while unblkgly pictg a moment of relentls asslt on gay men.

TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY

For another, siarly nversatn-stirrg novel about the plexi of genr, reach for Torrey Peters’s Detransn, Baby (2021) From The Dance by Andrew Holleran (1978)Holleran’s book – dubbed “The gay Great Gatsby” – tak s tle om a Yeats poem. Combg agmented memori of childhood wh an acunt of his first troubled love – Trevor, the 16-year-old son of a tobac farmer – Vuong’s narrative of growg up gay and pg is tenr and heartbreakg.

The says foc on Chee’s personal experienc as a gay Korean-Amerin wrer, and range topic om the wrg life to a logy of a iend lost to AIDS.

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers is a fascatg look at not only the history of gay rights, but the tersectn of how beg a woman played to that journey — and a soberg remr that the work still isn’t done.

20 CLASSIC WORKS OF GAY LERATURE

From drag shows to gay bars to polil ralli, Allen tak rears on a journey to all rners of the Uned Stat, fdg LGBT+ people everywhere and revealg the pri that manag to flourish even the most nservative plac. Another novel set Texas, Orphs Girl tells the story of Raya and Sarah, two lbian teenagers who are sent to nversn mp to have their homosexualy “cured”.

This raw and lyril book don’t flch away om the vastatg btaly of nversn therapy, bravely bearg wns to the mental and physil pa the girls experience as a direct rult of homophobia. Reza, a closeted boy, only unrstands homosexualy through the lens of so many gay men dyg. Judy, an aspirg fashn signer, worships her gay uncle as he fights for jtice.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

And Art, the only openly gay boy at school, documents the AIDS crisis through photography.

For a novel that was ed as evince of Osr Wil’s homosexualy his trial for gross cency 1895, The Picture of Dorian Gray is likely to strike morn rears as remarkably not so homoerotic, after all. This Gothic novel trac the moral cle of Dorian Gray, a young man whose obssn wh his own bety leads him to make some unwise cisns… Askg endurg qutns about art and athetics, Osr Wil’s remarkable novel is a breathtakg tale about the fear of agg, as well as a piece of gay lerary history s own right. Another gay l classic, Gvanni’s Room is the plex story of David, a young Amerin 1950s Paris, who is sperately tryg to accept what society has tght him is morally rrect and appropriate: a heterosexual marriage.

THE 13 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY READ BY NOW

Or read up on the poems of Ey Dickson, who many speculate may have had a homosexual relatnship wh her sister--law. Walker stck down Proposn 8, lg that gays and lbians have a nstutnal right to marry. Proposn 8 was a 2008 ballot iative that banned gay marriage California.

Supreme a day that will fd many gay rights activists celebratg, we look to the books that have provid a richer unrstandg of the joys and challeng particular to gay life.

20 classic works of gay lerature‘Gvanni’s Room’ by Jam Baldw -- a man disvers his sexual inty Paris’Nightwood’ by Djuna Barn -- early postmorn fictn of women Paris love’Fun Home: A Fay Tragiic’ by Alison Bechl -- a graphic novel memoir of her troubled gay father and her own g out’Rubyu Jungle’ by Ra Mae Brown -- the 1973 tale of a young woman’s g of age’Naked Lunch’ by William S. Burroughs -- the foc of a breakthrough obsceny trial, a landmark experimental novel ‘Osr Wil’ by Richard Elmann -- b of the lively wrer whose gay relatnship got him sent to prison for “gross cency” ’Mrice’ by E.