Best gay books to read
60 LGBTQ+ Books That Reaaally Deserve a Spot on Your Shelf
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Your Driver is Waiting, by Priya Guns
This gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 's film Taxi Driver follows a rideshare driver who is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial securityuntil she decides she's done waiting.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
When magazine reporter Monique Grant is summoned by aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo, she's determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career. Evelyn is finally ready to tell the fact about her glamorous and scandalous life, which includes tales of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great love she's kept secret for decades. Monique begins to form a real connection to the legendary star, but as her sto
Today on the site I&#;m delighted to welcome Rebecca Bendheim, author of the upcoming lesbian Middle Grade When You&#;re Brave Enough, which releases April 7, from Viking Books for Young Readers! Here&#;s the story:
A heartfelt, gorgeously written debut middle grade novel about best friends, first crushes, and coming out—perfect for fans of Kyle Lukoff and Jake Maia Arlow.
Before she moved from Austin to Rhode Island, everybody knew Lacey as one half of an inseparable duo: Lacey-and-Grace, best friends since they were toddlers. Grace and her moms were practically family. But at school, being lumped together with overeager, worm-obsessed, crushes-on-everyone Grace meant Lacey never quite fit in—and that’s why at her modern middle school, Lacey plans to reinvent herself. This time, she’s going to be cool. She’s going to be normal.
At first, everything seems to go as planned. Lacey makes new friends right away, she finds a rabbi to help her organize for the bat mitzvah that got deprioritized by her parents in the chaos of the move, and she even gets cast in the lead role of the eigh
(A time capsule of queer noun, from the late s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and gay novels in the late s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay 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. Touch 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
A Boy&#;s Own S
Feed your gay wanderlust with our roundup of the best gay books to read whilst traveling!
RuPaul has always taught us that reading is, what….? FUNDAMENTAL!
Neither of us had read much for pleasure since our schoolboy days (don’t judge us, we were too busy being fabulous…). So, we decided to stop scrolling on our phones and taking selfies on our bus/train/plane journeys, replacing that time with some reading instead. Just like the olden days.
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And what better way to shatter a reading slump than to read books with gay content and exciting travel locations? Not only are we getting a representation of ourselves in literature, but it gets us pumped up for our next destination.
And sure, you might think: “But guys, gay fiction is all sappy romance, com