Novels about gay men
11 gay books every queer gentleman should read, at least once
By Emen8, updated 2 months ago in Lifestyle / Entertainment
Whether your interest is in complex gay characters or historically poignant homosexual love stories, here are eleven gay books every queer man should read, at least once.
Here are some of the foremost gay books for anyone looking to lose themselves in beautifully crafted stories. This list of gay books contains some of the stories that aide shape our understandings of the queer experience, our history, our loves and our families. If you have already read them all, please get in touch, I reflect we may be soulmates. While you&#;re at it you can also review out our 6 gay fantasy novels to add to your reading list.
1. Call Me by Your Name, Andre Aciman
Many will realize the gorgeous motion picture by the equal title, starring Timothée Chalamet, the king of the direct twinks. Well, 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 like affair with his father’s PhD stu
(A time capsule of homosexual opinion, from the tardy s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and male lover novels in the belated s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and homosexual literature and to promote discussion among all readers same-sex attracted 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 Adequately 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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The Best of Gay Fiction
Do you still feel as inspired as a scribe today as you did, say, a couple of decades ago?
Well, a lot of people contain 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 believe 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 believe. 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 moisture up a hill and you’re not quite sure you’re going to produce it.
But you always seem to make it. Or are there times you haven’t?
I believe 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 recognized. 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