Gay literature
(A time capsule of homosexual opinion, from the belated 1990s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the late 1990s. 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 100 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. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami by Audré Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
14. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
15. Dancer from the Dance by A
Visibility. It’s one of the most decisive needs of the queer community. To be understood, to be accepted, the LGBTQIA+ community needs first to be seen. This has meant that centuries of authors writing about the experiences, love, and pain of the gay community have been crucial in making progress towards a radical acceptance.
From the delicate art build of the semi-autobiographical novel — a life story veiled behind fictional names and twists — to the roar of poetry to a deep dive into the history that has too often been erased and purged, homosexual literature has helped to challenge, travel, and shape generations of readers.
As a pansexual, demisexual cis woman on my way into another Pride Month, researching and crafting this list was a singular pleasure. I have many books to lay on hold at my local library. Many stories to encounter. Many histories to educate myself on.
Because gay texts help to increase our representation to the “outside” world, but they also increase internal visibility and acknowledgment. Today, transphobia is rampant among the queer community, and there are still plenty of issues (biphobia, acephobia), histories, and experiences that the best-educated homosexual pers
Isaac
ByCurtis Garner
Categories:Fiction, LGBTQ+, Homosexual Literature
A kaleidoscopic, intimate coming-of-age novel of modern queer life
Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Curtis Garner's debut novel, Isaac, is a lgbtq+ story for our digital age, offering ...
Edited byMegan J. Elias & Alex D. Ketchum
Categories:Cultural Studies, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Cooking, Trans & Non-Binary Literature, Diverse Literature, Anthologies, Female homosexual Literature
An anthology of essays, comics, and recipes that reveals the dynamic and transformative relationship between queerness and food
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What are the "gay novels of the 1940s and 1950s"?
astro1
I was reading the wiki on Gore Vidal’s novel “The City and the Pillar” and at the end this comment was noted.
The City and the Pillar sparked a public scandal, including notoriety and criticism, not only since it was released at a time when homosexuality was commonly considered immoral, but also because it was the first book by an approved American author to portray overt homosexuality as a natural behavior.[3] The controversial reception began before the novel hit bookshelves. Prior to its even being published, an editor at EP Dutton said to Vidal, “You will never be forgiven for this book. Twenty years from now you will still be attacked for it.”[5] Looking back in retrospect from 2009, it is considered by Ian Young to be “perhaps the most notorious of the gay novels of the 1940s and 1950s.”[7]
What are these “gay novels”?
Horatio_Hellpop2
Naked Lunch and Gentlemen’s Agreement come to mind.
Exapno_Mapcase3
The New York Times recent obituary of Tereska Torres, author of Women’s Barracks, provides a fascinating look at the period.
SantaMan4
I started to look up “Well