Best gay themed novels
13 New Queer Novels We Can&#;t Remain to Read in
Like Happiness is a stunning coming-of-age debut novel that delves into gender, sexual orientation, racial identity, and the charged power dynamics of fame. In the novel, storyteller Ursula Villarreal-Moura uses dual timelines to tell the story of Tatum Vega, a woman who years ago common a destructive affair with a legendary author named M. Domínguez. In the present timeline of , Tatum lives in Chile with her partner Vera and works at a museum in a job that she loves. Her fraught days in New York with M. Domínguez are long behind her. That is, until she gets a call from a reporter asking for an interview, as Domínguez has been accused of sexual assault. In an instant, Tatum’s former life comes flashing back, along with a series of pointed questions: What really happened between her and Domínguez all those years ago? As Tatum grapples with complex truths in the present, the second timeline, told through a letter Tatum writes to Domínguez, takes us advocate to the decade she spent in New York Town and the complex, destructive relationsh
LGBT books: 72 of the best books by Gay authors
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Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
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Detransition, Baby was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in and was applauded by cis, straight and Gay readers alike for its nuanced portrayal of transitioned people.
The blurb: Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in Recent York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. When her previous lover calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After creature attacked in the lane, Amy de-transitioned to develop Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrina's pregnant. Could the three of them create an unconventional family - and raise the toddler together?
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Real Life, Brandon Taylor
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(A time capsule of queer view, from the late s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and same-sex attracted novels in the late 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
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. Brush 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
A Boy&#;s Own S
Due to the delightfully massive 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 consciousness 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 force that changed his animation 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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