Best gay literature 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 study 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 break a reading slump than to study 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 Do you still feel as inspired as a writer today as you did, say, a couple of decades ago? Well, a lot of people include said that JackHolmesandHisFriend is my best book, so I guess I’m still writing at the height of my powers. I teach writing, so I have to constantly ponder about writing problems. Is the writing process for you pleasurable or angst-ridden? It’s both angst-ridden and pleasurable. It is pleasurable to finish, I imagine . It’s always angst-ridden to write, with some stretches of pleasure. But it does seem to me that writing a novel is so precarious. It’s as though you’re carrying a bucket of noun up a hill and you’re not quite sure you’re going to create it. But you always seem to make it. Or are there times you haven’t? I consider I wrote three or four novels before one was published, so I certainly know what it’s like to write something and not have it be successful or accepted. Like every writer I’ve been criticised for some of my work. A couple of my novels are considered real failures. How do you react to criticism? Do you LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community commencement in the mid-to-late s. (A time capsule of queer opinion, from the behind s) The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and gay novels in the overdue 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
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The Best of Gay Fiction
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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 Adv of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss 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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