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25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

The books penned by gay, lbian, asexual, and trans thors over the past two centuri reveal what the LGBTQIA+ muny has to say about wanrlt." name="scriptn * gay travel writers *

S., wh march and “gay s” New York, Chigo, and other ci memoratg the first anniversary of the Stonewall rts, a watershed moment for queer rights. When the book was first published, Baldw, an Ain-Amerin man, was cricized for wrg about whe characters and homosexuals, but his work brought obscured reali to light, makg a wily read Queer Ameri: LGBT Stori om Red Stat, Samantha Allen, 2019.

In this pirque memoir, Allen returns to her llege mp and tours the “flyover” stat and the ep South, termed to do “somethg gay every day. (Related: Seekg gay travel s? His adventur clu an appearance on a celebry talk show, a foray to an famo gay club, and dodgg awkward qutns about his maral stat om pryg relativ.

Morris’s memoir was published the same year that homosexualy was classified as a mental illns the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs).

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But Morris, a succsful Brish travel wrer, was ahead of her time realizg she was not homosexual but “transsexual. Certaly they may not have nceived of themselv the same terms as today's inty lgo or been out and proud, openly dishg on the gay experience abroad.

From travelogu penned om the closet like Henry Jam' travel dispatch, to yly queer narrativ steeped travel like Virgia Woolf's Orlando, to texts that directly explore LGBTQIA+ muni around the world and what 's like to travel while gay, queer travel lerature is self a broad, diverse spectm. If you want to lve eper to travel lerature penned by gay, lbian, asexual, and trans thors over the past century or two, here's where to start.

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Buy NowStat of Dire: Travels Gay Ameri, by Edmund WheFirst published 1980, Stat of Dire chronicl Prceton profsor Edmund Whe's road trip across the Uned Stat search of the queer spac tucked to ci om San Francis to Kansas Cy. Along the way he charts the bars, bathho, public parks, and other plac where gay men met as the gay liberatn movement gathered steam om the late '70s on, offerg a travelogue of muni that purposely stayed unr the radar and have sce been transformed by both the AIDS epimic and the rise of ter culture. It's a fascatg glimpse to the rners of ci you may never have seen, and what they meant to men navigatg an often homophobic nowThe Skeptil Romancer: Selected Travel Wrg, by Somerset Mgham"I prefer to wanr old streets whout a guibook, tstg that fortune will brg me across thgs worth seeg; and if ocsnally I miss some monument that is world-famo, more often I disver some ltle daty piece of archecture, some scrap of ratn, that repays me for all I lose.

" One of the untend effects of the regn's growg enomic prospery and far-reachg marketg mpaigns after WWII was for the Gulf Coast to bee a mag for gay vatners lookg for a safe space to soak up the sun and create muny.

Watks lv to the unexpected emergence of ci like Pensala as not jt the Redneck Riviera, but the Gay Riviera, too, a fascatg glimpse at placemakg and how statns bee more than a sum of their nowHenry Jam: Collected Travel Wrgs, by Henry JamHenry Jam is perhaps bt known for fictn like The Turn of the Screw, but was also an astute travel wrer who ptured the thrill of seeg new plac for the first time.

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