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imagine saying "i don't define being gay as same-sex attraction" and thinking you're the voice of gay people

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Non-exhaustive List of Gay Literature for Pride Month 2020

Few of these books will be from the past decade because gender ideology has sucked the life out of gay literature. Sorry. If you can, try to purchase these from a local gay or independent bookstore!

(Legend: 🌈 The author is/was also homosexual.)

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill 🌈

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White 🌈

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee 🌈

Family Dancing by David Leavitt 🌈

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 🌈

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg 🌈

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 🌈

Lie With Me (Arrête avec tes mensonges) by Philippe Besson 🌈

The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt 🌈

Maurice by E.M. Forster 🌈

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 🌈

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 🌈

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood 🌈

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski 🌈

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

Young Adult

Geography Club by Brent Hartinger 🌈

Hero by Perry Moore 🌈

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera 🌈

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan 🌈

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan 🌈 and John Green

I notice there are a lot of books involving swimming. Weird.

I am working on a lesbian list as well, but I would love some input from actual lesbians about which books they enjoyed!

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Coming Soon: Gay and Lesbian Book Lists

After struggling to find any book lists that weren’t drowned in LGBTQIA2SP+++ genderspeak, which included books about straight people that was somehow still labeled “queer”, I decided to work on my own lists that hopefully can be shared widely.

I feel bad for the gay and lesbian kids who are growing up now. When they go to the “LGBTQIA+” shelf only to find stories about gender non-conforming kids like themselves transitioning, it truly is anti-gay, conversion therapy propaganda. So I need to do something to fix that.

Please feel free to send me suggestions directly!