Top ten gay books
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 verb 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 (A time capsule of queer view, 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 Top Ten Gay Romance brings together the best-selling brief stories published by JMS Books that year. GENRE Romance A Gay Pride Month special which I survey the LBGTQ writing that spoke to me most as a young reader and gave me a sense of what life outside the closet might be. Today is the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the symbolic birth of the modern gay liberation movement. Like many gay men of my generation, I grew up in a conservative society where homosexuality was all but invisible. In a pre-Internet age, books became the way I learned about gay history and started to imagine what a gay community might stare like. While I created this blog to explore classic works of fiction that I&#;d not yet read, occasionally I&#;m tempted to revisit a much-loved aged classic and see how adv it&#;s held up over the years. Today feels like an ideal moment to recall ten of my most cherished reads from the LGBTQ canon. I&#;ve given myself a bit more leeway than normal in this blog, by allowing non-fiction and short stories as well as fiction. In compiling this list, I went with books that felt like favourites, rather than trying to make an &#;inclusive&#; list of
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. Peck 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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From first treasure to true love, from submission to sensual, from heat to sweet and everything in between, the couples in these stories are sure to keep you turning the pages as you fall in love with them.
With stories by Kris T. Bethke, Jamie Craig, Holly Afternoon, Ofelia Gränd, Pat Henshaw, Nell Iris, A.C. Katt, Shawn Lane, Wayne Mansfield, and K.L. Noone, this head-over-heels collection goes beyond bedtime reading. Whether happily ever after or happy for now, there's an ending for everyone in here!
Contains the stories: Gingerbread and Good Tidings by Kris T. Bethke, First and Always by Jamie Craig, Blown Away by Holly Day, Kisses and Cabins by Ofelia Gränd, A Kiss in Time by Pat Henshaw, Wake Him with a Kiss by Nell Iris, A Permanent Arrangement by A.C. Katt, Holly Jolly by Shawn Lane, Ugly by Wayne Mansfield, and Cinnamon and Strawberries by K.L. Noone. More Books Prefer This
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