From the return of a legendary gay novelist to a blazg new memoir about parenthood, the are the queer books you should be readg this Pri Month—and beyond.
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From gay ghosts and nonbary astronts to stirrg poems and movg memoirs, this was a fantastic year for queer lerature. * gay book 2022 *
Andy is a closeted gay p who’s fired om the San Francis police force after he’s ught a raid at a gay bar. See also: High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez, Faltas by Cecilia Gentili, It Came om the Closet eded by Joe Valle. Gay Club!
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In his wry acceptance speech—preced by an troductn om filmmaker John Waters who lled Whe a “lerary top”—Whe discsed the stggle of havg tried to publish gay fictn pre-Stonewall and even many s later; how his work was rejected for beg both too explic and too subtle, statg that the “faiar is more threateng than the exotic”; and how “only” took him half a century to go om one of the most maligned wrers Amerin letters to beg honored. This we know: Jeanna Kadlec has long been a champn for other queer wrers, a steadfast challenger to the many iqui of the media world, and a lightful live-tweeter of films filled wh gay subtext. ” From the creator and star of the Netflix edy Special—adapted om the thor’s memoir about beg a gay man wh cerebral palsy— the story of a televisn wrer livg his supposed bt life (the aforementned betiful man wh the betiful penis, a job for which he mak “a dumb amount of money”) who’s nohels unable to settle to ntentment, a book about the pfalls and pratfalls of sirg external validatn and the importance of self-acceptance.
The thor of the semal queer classic Dancer om the Dance returns wh a wi-eyed and wise novel about the ecstasi and agoni of beg an agg gay—how disorientg and vast the chasm is between feelg young and lookg young, the pas of a still-puerile sire vers the ach of a body cle.