Books shelved as gay-thors: Adventure-Pom! by Sean Dryn, On Earth We're Briefly Geo by Ocean Vuong, The Importance of Beg Earnt by Osr Wil...
Contents:
- GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
* gay fiction writers *
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.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
"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.
PL BURSTON'S TOP 10 GAY FICTN BOOKS
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. Hollghurst set his pen on the sexual hypocrisi of homophobic policians, many of whom had their own discretns behd closed doors.