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Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
• GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
• GAY AUTHORS
• 60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
• THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021). Armistead MpMp’s effervcent novels about gay life San Francis, startg wh Tal of the Cy (1978), brought to life a i foreign to much of the JordanJordan primarily wrote through the lens of bisexualy and racial jtice.

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Shared among gay iends, we uld celebrate our growg nfince and visibily wh new work om Alan Hollghurst and Jeate Wterson, velop a mp sensibily by quotg to each other l om EF Benson and Ronald Firbank, image that London uld bee the queer Ardia picted Armistead Mp’s Tal of the we moved towards assiatn the 1990s, Dennis Cooper’s Gee Mil novel cycle was a remr that sexualy was still transgrsive, that sire remaed a dark and disptive force. It’s a such a tenr moment and a remr of the kdns and nnectn that is possible between all of MenzAuthor of Rabow MilkCeremoni by Essex Hemphill (Pengu)The hugely fluential gay Ain Amerin poet Essex Hemphill died of Aids-related plitns 1995, aged 38, jt one month before the lnch of protease hibors – early antiretrovirals – which might have saved or at least prolonged his life.

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In the wrgs and radil cema he left behd – cludg llaboratns wh Marlon Riggs Tongu Untied (1989) and Isaac Julien Lookg for Langston (1989) – he provid subsequent generatns wh evince that we lived and loved, and of our fight agast the effects of tersectg whe supremacy, racism, homophobia and heterosexism.

Brorick’s novel is an important document that dramatis hidn gay liv the Dubl of 40 years CreweDebut novel The New Life was published this yearFrank Sargon’s Collected Stori, 1935-1963 (Pengu)Frank Sargon’s short stori are nversatnal. ”Neil BartlettTheatre director, playwright and thor of novels cludg Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall and Addrs BookNocturn for the Kg of Napl by Edmund Whe (Pidor)In 1980, when I was livg a beds and “gay” was a word still largely spoken between ntemptuo verted mas, a chanced-upon newspaper review alerted me to the existence of an unknown Amerin wrer whose third book had jt ma to the UK. I very much look forward to her follow-up Brawyrms later the KayAward-wng Makar (Natnal Poet for Stland) and thor of fictn and nonfictn cludg Red Dt Road, Tmpet and Bsie SmhSister Outsir by Audre Lor (Pengu Classics)In an terview Ada Gay Griff and Michelle Parkerson’s 1995 documentary about her life, A Lany for Survival (the name of one of Lor’s semal poems), Audre Lor said prciently: “What I leave behd has a life of s own.

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He was the epome of the upright, public-spired, homosexual expat, nductg a distguished reer om Alexandria and Athens – two of his bt novels are about life Alexandria, wh illic passn throbbg unr the rtraed surface.

I thk only a gay man would have had the patience to observe all the character typ, and renr them wh such unfettable, tty Atherton LEssayist and thor of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, which won the Natnal Book Crics Circle award for tobgraphyReady to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett (Serpent’s Tail, available on worldoarebooks)So often, boy-meets-boy narrativ take place some remote manor or tent, as if romance only occurs far om the maddg gay crowd. In ls than 90 pag, Louis scrib the sual vlence, poverty, homophobia and shame that blight both father and son, while layg full rponsibily at the feet of a polil ele whose polici mean the difference between life and ath for society’s most ’s no cince that the book’s tle lacks a qutn mark; Louis has receipts and nam nam.

Advertisement - Contue Readg Below16Cy of Night by John Rechy16Cy of Night by John RechyNow 11% OffCred: Grove PrsTake a trip to the unrground world of gay htlers, drag queens, and sex workers this book that sndalized the lerary world when first me out but went on to bee a mt-read. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.

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The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy.

The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo. The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici.

Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy. Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect. Wonrful book, " gay refugee activist and lumnist Danny Ramadan rav about the global-md book unpacks the emotnal life of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian civil war who begs a gut-wrenchg affair wh a fellow refugee.

60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI

Dalloway, a novel to which Cunngham pays homage; mid-20th-century Los Angel, hoewife Lra Brown, disntented wh her life, nonts her attractn to women; and 1990s New York Cy, Clarissa Vghan, who is lbian, plans a party for her bt iend, wrer Richard Brown, a gay man dyg of AIDS. Bgraphers have ntually bated Whman’s sexual orientatn; his poetry, particularly Leav of Grass, which faced ser censorship after s publitn, ntas several homoerotic imag, however others argue that this was untentnal.

Dorian Gray was origally published Lipptt’s Monthly Magaze, and drew such harsh cricism for s pictn of “immoraly, ” (one character the novel exprs a potentially romantic fatuatn for another male character) that when was later re-published as a book, Wil toned down the novel’s homoerotic subtext. Known for his grim and often btal sense of humor, Sullivan once wrote, “I took a certa pleasure rmg the genr clic that even though their program told me I uld not live as a Gay man, looks like I’m gog to die like one.

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But I love his 1990 novel, A Home at the End of the World, which centers on an alternative fay: a gay man and his bt iend plan to have a baby together, and end up lettg an old llege iend jo Here To BuyRa Mae Brown Rubyu Jungle is one of the bt g out books I've ever read, partly bee the protagonist is all like: Yeah, I like women, what's so weird about that?

In this bizarre book, the genr-fluid ma character liv throughout several centuri as both men and Here To Buy David Levhan We n thank David Levhan for beg one of the first thors to troduce gay characters to the YA mastream. " While we nnot rightfully claim that McCullers was transsexual, her observatns on the fluidy of genr show that her perspective on sexualy was ahead of s Here To BuyBret Easton Ellis Whether Ellis is gay, straight, bi, asexual, or anythg else on the rabow of sexualy, he's not tellg. Women have been attracted to women for far longer than we have been acceptg them, and Waters's exploratn of women's sexualy wh genr ually dited to heterosexual upl opens the door for other thors to do the Here To BuyLangston Hugh It isn't known whether Hugh was gay, straight, bi, or asexual, but he was portrayed as a black gay in filmmaker Isaac Julien's 1989 film Lookg for Langston.

Peters normaliz the LGBTQIA experience for teens by wrg lerature which people like them are not tomatilly Here To BuyChristopher Isherwood Inic gay thor Christopher Isherwood wrote A Sgle Man (which was adapted to a movie) and Goodbye to Berl (which, fun fact, is what Cabaret is based on).

“This is the story of Pl, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerlears ri Harleys, the homeg queen ed to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infe Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance.

From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivisn Florida where neighbors nform, pete, and spy on each other, Gay livers a wry, betiful, hntg visn of morn Ameri remiscent of Merrt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July. “From the thor of the prize-wng llectn Quarante, an sightful, pellg but novel set ral Ameri and India the 1980s and `90s, part g-of-age story about a gay Indian Amerin boy, part fay saga about an immigrant fay’s stggl each to fd a sense of belongg, inty, and hope.

Several of Brant’s (The Mohawk Trail) stori nsir the need to e to terms wh ath: ‘This Place, ’ a medice man whose ‘good medice’ rang om butter tarts and old Hank Williams songs to a snakk and chantg helps a gay man afflicted wh AIDS fd the urage to ‘see ath g and n to meet . This ternatnally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the ey of Js Goldberg, a mascule girl growg up the ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ McCarthy era and g out as a young butch lbian the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-llar town.

“In this grippg memoir of the AIDS years (1981–1996), Sarah Schulman rells how much of the rebell queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay nservative spokpeople and mastream nsumerism. When Garrard was a neteen-year-old llege stunt, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changg cisn: eher agree to attend a church-supported nversn therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexualy; or risk losg fay, iends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. "Advertisement - Contue Readg Below4Beebo Brker by Ann Bannon4Beebo Brker by Ann BannonCarol Anshaw, thor of Right after the Weather:"I’d like to say the book that nfirmed my spicn that I was gay was somethg lerary like Orlando or Mrice, but fact was one of the 1950s-1960s pulp novels by Ann Bannon—Beebo Brker, Journey to a Woman.

"Advertisement - Contue Readg Below11The Swimmg-Pool Library by Alan Hollghurst11The Swimmg-Pool Library by Alan HollghurstChristopher Bollen, thor of A Betiful Crime:"I spent a lot of my youth huntg for glimps of gay characters books. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below113th Balloon by Mark Bibbs113th Balloon by Mark BibbsDedited part to a lover who died of AIDS, Bibbs's heart-wrenchg (yet still wistfully humoro) memoir--verse lays bare the large and small griefs of gay life the shadow of an epimic: "Strange to look valy for onelf history/and stranger to realize/that there is a chance/one might fd onelf there.