Best gay literature
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In the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression. In a variety of styles and genres, same-sex attracted men have increasingly begun to articulate their sexual identities. At the same time, gay writers and scholars have begun in earnest the search for a literary history long denied by the refusal to recognize lesbian love as an integral part of Western literature. Yet to date, no single volume has brought together the full range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that portray love between men.
From the Epic of Gilgamesh to the poems of Allen Ginsberg and gay literature of the s and '90s, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature draws together hundreds of texts from Western literary history that describe experiences of love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex among men. While other anthologies include focused primarily on poetry, drama, or fiction, this volume is the first to include a full range of ge
Gay/LGBTQ2IA etc. Series or Rise Alone
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I really like reading gay sci fi and fantasy series and have read a few and now long for to consume more. I have tried to navigate Goodreads but the lists are so dated and massive that finding anything appealing is difficult. Reddit is also hit or miss so here I am.
To clarify, I do not read books with lesbian or sapphic vibes. Similarly, I execute not read books with trans MCs. I escape these POV MCs not because I undervalue their importance rather I just want to imagine myself as someone else and I only wish to do that through lgbtq+ or bi usually cis male MCs.
I hold read many series about gay men written by female authors and hold come to truly sense frustrated by the disconnect I feel when I read flowery language crafted to appeal to other women. To that
(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the late s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best sapphic and gay novels in the adv s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and same-sex attracted literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.
The Triangle&#;s Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Embrace of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
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A confession: I very nearly quit putting this list together.
Throughout the year I keep a running list, adding new names whenever I learn about an upcoming queer book—from Tweets, publicist pitches, endless NetGalley scrolls—and I usually originate writing the blurbs for each book a not many months before the list is due. Let me also add that, because I am a novelist myself, someone who works very hard to place words on the page in a good-enough instruction for someone to respond to them, I strive and read at least a little of each book featured. And here’s an incredible truth that’s both deeply satisfying and makes my job surprisingly difficult: there are more and more queer books published every year. There was a time when I could complete a list like this in an afternoon; I was lucky to find a dozen explicitly queer titles. Now there’s a lovely solid chance I fail to catch a good number of them.
In mid-December—at the half-way point, and a couple days after my birthday—I looked at the list, halfway done then, and thought, “There’s no way I can do this. There’s no way I can finish putting together this