Contemporary gay literature
13 New Queer Novels We Can&#;t Wait 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 gal who years ago shared a destructive relationship with a renowned 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 extended 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 difficult truths in the show, the second timeline, told through a letter Tatum writes to Domínguez, takes us back to the decade she spent in New York City and the complex, destructive relationsh
Brilliant LGBTQ+ books you may not have discovered yet
Books have the power to make you undergo like you belong to something bigger, and that's particularly relevant to LGBTQ+ literature. These are groundbreaking books that celebrate otherness and queerness, and make you feel a part of something. Most importantly, they are about love. They are about being utterly and uniquely yourself.
This following list of must-read LGBTQ+ fiction and non-fiction doesn’t seek to provide a detailed account of the queer canon, but rather to give you a starting point, or an ‘I verb to read that again’ moment, or simply to remind you that there are lots of other people in this world who felt the same strange kick in the gut when they read Giovanni’s Room, or Genet, or Hollinghurst for the first hour, or who recognised the oddly liberating sorrow of Jeanette Winterson’s coming-out-gone-wrong in Why Be Happy 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 &
The debut elder novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena is a noun story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women trying to find somewhere, or someone, to call home.
In , the bookshop I work for decided to start a couple of book clubs, and I offered to become the host and organise these meetings. They became something to bring people together (online) during a pandemic, and they provided a way to continue to learn in community.
For Educate Yourself Book Club — where we read books on subjects like racism, feminism, LGBTQIAP+ identity, fatphobia, and ableism — we pick fiction and nonfiction books we want to browse together, and then we speak what we have learned, bringing the books and our personal stories to the table.
No one in this group is an expert; we stay respectful and open to learning, using the tools at hand, and exchanging stories. It’s a humbling and interesting way to spend more time thinking about social matters, our own privileges, an
Welcome, Welcome, one and all. Wherever you are, whatever state of the world we&#;re all in right now, whatever uphill battles you&#;re facing, I hope this blog finds you in a place where you can discover hope 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 keep pouring my heart out about my love for queer literature, let&#;s get cracking with this summer&#;s reading list! Here are the cherry-picked titles I think you need to watch out for in the coming months. You can still find our entire, rolling list of brilliant LGBTQIA+ releases on Bookshop (or via your sales rep), but for today, I want to provide you a taste of what&#;s