LGBT - what are your favourite gay interest novels?

Question

I like all of Sarah Waters' stuff. Also 'Carol' by Patricia Highsmith and 'Rubyfruit Jungle' by Rita Mae Brown, not to mention 'Hood' by Emma Donoghue.

What are your favourites and why do you think many of the contemporary gay/lesbian classics are now out of print?

Thanks in advance.

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Answer 1

Stone Butch Blues.


It was like reading the story of my life..really.

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Answer 2

Gordon Merrick's trilogy: 'The Lord Won't Mind', 'One For the Gods', and 'Forth into Light' were very entertaining.

I also loved Michael Craft's 'Mark Manning' series. This was when he was actually a good writer and didn't "switch teams" and exclusively write for the straight population. Such a shame, so much talent. It would've been fine if they were good, but they weren't. He's going in unknown territory. You write what you know not what you think people want to read.

Anyway I digress.....One author I can't stand Felice Picano. His most noted I believe would be 'Men Who Loved Me'......God what a superficial @sshole. LOL. Sorry but if you read his work you would most likely agree, the only people who do love his work are the people who lived similar lives or people who wanted to live similar lives as he.

Authors to look out for: Bart Yates, Alex Cunningham, Michael Thomas Ford, Matthew Rettenmund......there's more but I would have to use Google. But these are the ones that stand out in my mind.

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Answer 3

Brokeback Mountain adaptation. Or was it Humpback mountain? Brokedick mountain? I think it was Buttcrack Mountain.

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Answer 4

I LOVE YOU, EMMA!! *lots of hugs and kisses*

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Sorry this answer isn't more helpful.

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Answer 5

Idk.

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Answer 6

I like the classics - Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" or Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City".

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Answer 7

I like Mary Wings novels: She Came To Castro, She Came In Drag, and so on.
I liked reading Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer.
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg is nicely lesbian themed.
Also, they have reprinted Ann Bannon's pulp novels.
Books resurge after a spell, and it is just the natural ebb and flow of the literary world.

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Answer 8

"The Lord Won't Mind" by Gordon Merrick.
(Umm, it's pretty graphic though. I found it in a local gay book store years ago.)

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