Good gay fiction books
Gay/LGBTQ2IA etc. Series or Stand Alone
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Firstly, apologies if this is a replay thread. I tried to filter and search for answers to what I had in consciousness to ask and my search came up sparse. Admittedly, my librarian and IT skills are incredibly under developed so there may be a section of threads I missed altogether. That said
I really like reading homosexual sci fi and fantasy series and have read a few and now wish to consume more. I own tried to navigate Goodreads but the lists are so dated and substantial that finding anything appealing is complex. Reddit is also hit or overlook so here I am.
To clarify, I do not read books with lesbian or sapphic vibes. Similarly, I do not scan books with transsexual MCs. I shun these POV MCs not because I undervalue their importance rather I just want to dream myself as someone else and I only wish to do that through gay or bi usually cis male MCs.
I contain read many series about gay men written by female authors and own come to truly feel frustrated by the disconnect I feel when I read flowery language designed to appeal to other women. To that
Due to the delightfully huge volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week!
Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (January 7th)
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a guy who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young lgbtq+ man pierces Peter&#;s numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him.
Ann, his mother, who runs a women&#;s retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is wounded by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago banished from her soul the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter’s case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of abuse that changed his experience forever, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.
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How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris (January 7th)
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(A time capsule of gender non-conforming opinion, from the sdelayed s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and same-sex attracted novels in the tardy 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 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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