Top 10 gay novels
(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the late s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best queer woman and gay novels in the delayed s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and male lover 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. Smooch 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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11 gay books every queer man should study, at least once
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Whether your interest is in complex gay characters or historically poignant homosexual adoration stories, here are eleven gay books every lgbtq+ man should read, at least once.
Here are some of the best queer books for anyone looking to lose themselves in beautifully crafted stories. This list of gay books contains some of the stories that help shape our understandings of the gay experience, our history, our loves and our families. If you own already read them all, please get in feel, I think we may be soulmates. While you&#;re at it you can also check out our 6 gay fantasy novels to add to your reading list.
1. Call Me by Your Name, Andre Aciman
Many will know the gorgeous film by the same title, starring Timothée Chalamet, the king of the straight twinks. Good, the book it’s based on, written by the talented Andre Aciman, is equally captivating. For those unfamiliar, the novel follows year-old Elio Pearlman’s summer love affair with his father’s PhD stu
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'The Lost Weekend' by Charles Jackson
Yes, this is the book that inspired Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning film about writers’ block and alcoholism. But what do you suppose makes Jackson’s original novel’s clue character, a novelist named Don Birnham, a blocked alcoholic? He’s a closet case. Wilder and his co-screenwriter, Charles Brackett, eschewed that pesky little issue and left the root cause of Birnham’s dipsomania unstated. Why? They had no choice; it would have violated the Movie Code, though they undertake include a hint in the form of a creepy Bellevue night nurse (Frank Faylen). But Jackson, who wrote the explicitly gay novel The Descent of Valor, includes a vital passage about Birnham’s attraction to another guy in college that leaves no doubt about his underlying psychology. It’s a great novel made even better by its unexpected gay subtext.
'The Town and the Pillar' by Gore Vidal
This landmark novel by the prolific, brilliant, and mouthy “homosexualist” au
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C.E. McGillwas born in Scotland and raised in North Carolina. Their debut novel, Our Hideous Progeny, is forthcoming in May.
For centuries, LGBTQ people have existed in literature just as we have in real life, and for just as long, LGBTQ novels hold been subject to criticism and censorship. With the recent wave of anti-LGBTQ book bans sweeping across the United States, it often feels as though things are moving backward in that regard; nevertheless, we live in an unprecedented era of lgbtq+ visibility in fiction, with more brilliant novels joining the canon every day.
Personally, I care for towards queer characters who are allowed to be messy and complicated, whose stories reveal both the joy of finding oneself and one’s community and the difficulties of living in a heterocisnormative world. As a author of historical fiction, I also frequently find myself writing characters who don’t have access to the language to describe their own identities, or whose comprehension of sexuality and gender is very diff