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Apr 23

LGBTQ* Novels and Literature You Should Know

(Some of) The Gay (Male) Canon

1. Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

2. Maurice by E.M. Forster

3. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal 

4. Queer by William S. Burroughs

5. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

6. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

7. Tales of the City Fruit by Armistead Maupin

8. Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

9. Infants in the Spring by Wallace Thurman (considered the first African-American queer novel)

10. A Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique

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Apr 23

LGBTQ* Novels and Literature You Should Know

(Some of) The Lesbian Canon

1. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall 

2. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf 

3. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein 

4. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

5. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

7. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

8. Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

9. Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

10. The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez 

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Aug 24
LGBTQ* (Canon) Novels You Should Know The City and the Pillar — Gore Vidal A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The first novel of its kind to appear on the American literary landscape, The City and the Pillarremains a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of sexual relationships between men. (from GoodReads.com)

LGBTQ* (Canon) Novels You Should Know

The City and the Pillar — Gore Vidal

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.

Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The first novel of its kind to appear on the American literary landscape, The City and the Pillarremains a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of sexual relationships between men. (from GoodReads.com)

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