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 Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:38 pm
I thought it might be nice for people to suggest some not so straight reading. I took a GLBT Lit class a few years ago and kept most of my books. If anyone has some suggestions, or just wants to talk about things they've read I'm pretty open to suggestion. I'm not a bookworm...not at all...
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg: A super powerful story of a WTM. It goes back into her/his childhood, loves lost, and tragedies occuring. It's set pre-Stonewall, and it will make you cry, it is a powerful and beautifully haunting story.
Borrowed Time an Aids Memoir by Paul Monette is a tale of love and struggle for survival. It was the first personal account of AIDS published.
The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt: A young man determines to come out to his parents, who are facing their own problems. His decision prompts his father to also come out of the proverbial closet (in this case a gay porn theater). There is some comedy in between the struggles of both men.
Anyone else feel free to post your picks! I will probably have more, since Maggs has a bunch, but anything by Dan Savage heart (especially The Kid, which is their adoption story) is pretty good and well humored.
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:39 pm
This thread makes me happy. I know of a few, but I can't think of them right off hand. I'll have to remind myself to look them up and post here later. :]
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 3:49 pm
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:00 pm
iGangstalicious Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson I've only heard good things about Rainbow Boys, I'm going to have to pick that up. biggrin I haven't read any of these, but Running With Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking are all on my shelf to be read. They're by Augusten Burroughs. And I'm currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde which is great! Other than that, I haven't really read anything with a prevalent gay theme. If you're looking for anything involving gender, Shakespeare is huge on messing with gender. My favorite play of his is Twelfth Night.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:31 pm
Heartless Virtue This thread makes me happy. I know of a few, but I can't think of them right off hand. I'll have to remind myself to look them up and post here later. :]
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:33 pm
iMito iGangstalicious Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson I've only heard good things about Rainbow Boys, I'm going to have to pick that up. biggrin I haven't read any of these, but Running With Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking are all on my shelf to be read. They're by Augusten Burroughs. And I'm currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde which is great! Other than that, I haven't really read anything with a prevalent gay theme. If you're looking for anything involving gender, Shakespeare is huge on messing with gender. My favorite play of his is Twelfth Night. I will have to check out your recommendations.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:53 pm
Annie on My Mind - The compelling story of a perfect up-town girl opening up and accepting herself and her true love, Annie.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:15 pm
Although the plot is by no means centered on homosexuality, the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels have a relatively large cast of homosexual characters. One of the reasons I liked them so much is that these characters don't take the place of gay stereotypes that you oftentimes see in today's media, and are treated just like everyone else.
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:57 pm
Although I was happy enough to read the Rainbow Boys books when I was younger, it was mostly just because it was novel to read a book that featured gay characters. Now, compared to other stuff I've read, I have absolutely nothing good to say about the books. "Let's see how many trite gay cliches we can fit into a series of three books!"
If you're going to read LGBT-themed YA books, I would look into David Levithan before picking up Rainbow Boys.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (cowritten with John Green) is wonderful, as are Wide Awake and The Realm of Possibility. Boy Meets Boy is cute, too, but I don't like it as much as the others, for a lot of the same reasons I didn't enjoy Alex Sanchez's books.
Mercedes Lackey does an interesting fantasy trilogy with a gay protagonist, The Last Herald-Mage trilogy. It's definitely not Tolkien (or Jordan, or Martin, or Pratchett....) but it's not bad.
If you like horror, check out Poppy Z. Brite. My favourite book is Lost Souls, although I think Drawing Blood was technically better written. Her characters (especially in her newer works) are awesome.
Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford is another favourite, as is Pretty Things by Sara Manning.
Anne Rice's son Christopher Rice wrote a sort of crime thriller that was decent, Light Before Day.
Finally, I'm going to second Mito's recommendation for The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's not technically a "gay" book, but it's a good read nonetheless. If you get a chance to see The Importance of Being Earnest (also by Oscar Wilde), do it. It's hysterical.
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:14 pm
Women of the Silk, by Gail Tsukiyama heart
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:47 pm
Perks of Being a Wallflower
It's not strictly LGBT, but there are LGBT characters.
About hardships of being different and all the jazz.
One of my favorites.
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:43 pm
Rubyfruit Jungle
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Funhouse: A Tragicomedy.
The City of Bones series also has some very well written homosexual characters in it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:12 am
I have a BUNCH of recommendations on the G side of LGBT literature:
First, if you want something with a good dose of humor, read Openly Bob and the sequel, Way to Go, Smith. It's comedian Bob Smith's account of coming out, meeting his partner, and eventually adopting a child. Touching and funny.
Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After by Kevin Bentley is a powerful (but very explicit) tale of life in San Francisco in the pre- and post-AIDS eras. It's based on the author's own diaries starting in 1977.
Another nice book is At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. It's a touching, coming-of-age type book about some Irish boys growing up under strict religious influences tinged with the violence of the IRA. Not exactly light reading, but worth the effort.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:28 am
i'm quite a huge fan of books by Mark A. Roeder, some amazing books include
Someone is Watching
Ancient Prejudice: Break to New Mutiny
A Better Place
(the list goes on, there's tons!)
and, of course Mark Kendrick
Desert Sons
Into This World We're Thrown
and a few miscellaneous titles
Icarus in Flight- Hayden Thorne
Hero- Paul Moore
Suicide Notes- Michael Thomas Ford
Peter- Kate Walker
Call Me By Your Name- Andre Acimen
those are just a few of the titles i own. read all of them, although Peter was kind of a let down for me, the same way Call Me By Your Name would be if it weren't so deep through and through
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:45 am
 ---------------------------------------------- The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan; the movie Lost & Delirious was based off this book.
Fingersmith by Sarah Walters
Sugar Rush by Julie Burchill
The Hunger by Whitley Strieber
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Edit: April Showers & Girl In the Shadows "by" V.C. Andrews - the main character struggles with her sexuality, and her sister is a lesbian. ----------------------------------------------
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