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Contents:

• GAY COWBOY ROMANCE BOOKS
• GAY COWBOY
• GAY WTERN COWBOY BOOKS
• THE REAL GAY WBOYS
• VTAGE GAY FICTN
• HIS RELUCTANT COWBOY: A GAY COWBOY ROMANCE (WOODS RANCH BOOK 2) KDLE EDN

GAY COWBOY ROMANCE BOOKS

My novel The Prettit Star, set 1986, asks what happens when a gay, HIV+ man go back to the small town where he grew up. I wanted to wre a story that sh a light on an overlooked part of the AIDS epimic, those gay men who returned to the fai and muni that had rejected them, and on an tersectn we don’t see enough lerature: the queer and the ral. Like many queer kids, I learned about the world, and about myself, through books, gleang unspoken possibili about sexualy, genr, and masculy, om characters like tomboy Sut and her “cur” iend Dill to the homoerotic greasers The Outsirs.

GAY COWBOY

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GAY WTERN COWBOY BOOKS

This lh, poetic, genero, philosophil novel, told om multiple characters’ pots of view, both gay and straight, exam the love and flaws and fivens of fay—whether blogil or chosen: “fay has no fixed boundari but is eternally changg, a river whose banks are formed by all those to whom she choos to bd herself wh the joys and burns of love. A young, gay, black man a small, ral town the South feels trapped by muny, by the opprsive relign of his fay, and by his own sexual reprsn.

THE REAL GAY WBOYS

Though Horace’s story ends tragedy, the novel also clus another gay character, Gion, who’s sassy and brave, a survivor.

VTAGE GAY FICTN

This but novel spans the ral landspe of the Pacific Northwt, the gged mountas of Idaho, and small-town Texas, followg a woman who p her abive hband wh her dghter, and her gay eighteen-year-old son who fds love wh the foreman on a nstctn crew.

"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. 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.

HIS RELUCTANT COWBOY: A GAY COWBOY ROMANCE (WOODS RANCH BOOK 2) KDLE EDN

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.

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. The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo.