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QUEER HERO OF MYTH AND LEGEND: A CELEBRATN OF GAY GODS, SAPPHIC SATS, AND QUEERNS THROUGH THE AG
Growg up gay, reprentatn lerature mattered. Lerature was my key to navigatg the future – gave me role mols to look up to; an unrstandg of gay culture and muny; and warned me of the challeng I might face growg up different. ‘Lerature was my key to navigatg the future – gave me role mols to look up to; an unrstandg of gay culture and muny; and warned me of the challeng I might face growg up different.
Queer, once a beatg stick ed to attack gay and bisexual men and women, has bee a tool of power wield by to break the limatns of inti. This queer lens has changed the way we read, allowg to look beyond the immediately gay protagonists of past lerature, and to disver all shap and siz of queer characters lurkg the shadows. The Le of Betyby Alan HollghurstI have already mentned Hollghurst’s protagonist Nick Gut what might be my favoure gay novel of all time, but on revisg, the te queer hero of the text is Nick’s first love, Leo Charl.
Immediately distguished by his race, Leo not only has the challenge of beg gay the 1980s but also those of beg black Thatchere Bra. Not bee of gay ntent, however, but due to s shockg and misogynistic portrayal of vlence towards women.