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13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
Stori by, for, and/or about Gay and Bi Young People. * gay fiction authors *
fictn, gay, gay-fictn, gay-romance, genre-fictn, lgbtq, love, m-m, male, male-thor, men, queer, romance, transgenr. 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. Woods, a Lambda :Lerary Award nomee for her novel Thgs to Do When You're Goth the Country, says Baldw succeed at "blurrg the l of hero and villa and brgg the plexy of human nature to horrifyg foc." 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. 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."The Price of Salt's dizzygly erotilly charged prose also telegraphed her signature sense of an omo "menace" ( this se, the threat of beg ught or found out jt as the Red Sre h the Uned Stat). Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly 1971.In a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.
PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
<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> * gay fiction authors *
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 homosexualy.But Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy.