Contemporary gay literature
Brilliant LGBTQ+ books you may not verb discovered yet
Books contain the power to make you touch like you fit to something bigger, and that's particularly relevant to LGBTQ+ literature. These are groundbreaking books that celebrate otherness and queerness, and produce you feel a part of something. Most importantly, they are about adore. They are about being utterly and uniquely yourself.
This following list of must-read LGBTQ+ fiction and non-fiction doesn’t search to provide a detailed account of the queer canon, but rather to give you a starting point, or an ‘I necessitate to read that again’ moment, or simply to remind you that there are lots of other people in this world who felt the similar strange kick in the gut when they read Giovanni’s Room, or Genet, or Hollinghurst for the first time, or who recognised the oddly liberating sorrow of Jeanette Winterson’s coming-out-gone-wrong in Why Be Joyful When You Could Be Normal?, or enjoyed the comforting company of community in the inhabitants of Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco.
To nab a phrase from Allen Ginsberg, we’re &
13 New Queer Novels We Can&#;t Linger 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, author Ursula Villarreal-Moura uses dual timelines to tell the story of Tatum Vega, a woman who years ago shared a destructive relationship with a well-known 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 tough truths in the present, the second timeline, told through a letter Tatum writes to Domínguez, takes us back to the decade she spent in New York Capital and the complex, destructive relationsh
Welcome, Welcome, one and all. Wherever you are, whatever declare of the world we&#;re all in right now, whatever uphill battles you&#;re facing, I pray this blog finds you in a place where you can find aspire and joy somewhere, somehow. Now, more than ever, I find myself reaching for more and more queer stories in my everyday life. Sometimes, that&#;s in articles online, podcasts, documentaries, but more often, I&#;m reaching for books. Queer authors writing today are at the top of their game; they&#;re more experimental, more liberating, more challenging, more exciting. Against the backdrop of all that&#;s happening, they refuse to stop writing queer stories, and there&#;s something wonderful about that.
Rather than hold pouring my heart out about my love for queer literature, let&#;s earn cracking with this summer&#;s reading list! Here are the cherry-picked titles I think you demand to watch out for in the coming months. You can still discover our full, rolling list of brilliant LGBTQIA+ releases on Bookshop (or via your sales rep), but for today, I want to give you a taste of what&#;s
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women trying to discover somewhere, or someone, to call home.
In , the bookshop I work for decided to launch a couple of book clubs, and I offered to become the host and organise these meetings. They became something to convey people together (online) during a pandemic, and they provided a way to continue to study in community.
For Instruct Yourself Book Club — where we read books on subjects like racism, feminism, LGBTQIAP+ identity, fatphobia, and ableism — we grab fiction and nonfiction books we yearn to read together, and then we discuss what we have learned, bringing the books and our personal stories to the table.
No one in this group is an expert; we remain respectful and expose to learning, using the tools at hand, and exchanging stories. It’s a humbling and intriguing way to expend more time thinking about social matters, our own privileges, an