Best Gay Fiction
This is a list for gay fiction. Please do not rate or add memoirs, biographies, etc.
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Aug 24, 2010 06:56AM
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I don't mind Brokeback mountain being close to the top. Although one case where the movie is better than the book I think. Not hard since the story is only 30-40 pages but what a beautiful movie.
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Everybody can add books to listopia lists, Hania -- there's a tab up top next to "all votes".
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Everybody can add books to this list, David -- there's a tab up top next to "all votes."
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But I've voted for about 10 books because there are many good ones on this list!
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Anna, reminds me of an interview someone did with Johnny Depp. He was asked which of all the movie characters he had played were gay. His answer? "All of them."
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Leon, I recently revisited "Front Runner" as I was getting ready to read the next in the series. I was surprised how well it has held up, it's really good. But my #1 choice has got to be "The God In Flight." That said, I just noticed "As Meat Loves Salt" on the "Notable Books" section at the library, the cover facing outward. Never heard of it till now and it's really good so far!
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I haven’t read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (currently #290) but my understanding was that it was homophobic.
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Does the list creator have a position on spam?
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Does the list creator have a position on spam?"
Yes, he doesn't like spam.
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That's not how I understood it... Kärleken for instance (which I voted for, by the way) has, as far as I know, not been translated into English (although it has been translated into other languages).
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That's not how I understood it... Kärleken for ..."
Thank you - please understand that I do not mind this book being there - it was just such a contrast to the generally paucity of even notable gay works or works by gay authors in translation from the list. I know that people like Genet and Mishima are well represented and there are others but I am sure if I after I have carefully gone through the whole list (I would only claim maybe 50%+ I would find many many authors I love - I have to admit only in translation because I cannot properly read any foreign language sufficiently well - absent. Also it was the first work in a foreign language I came across again based on only a partial reading of the list.
Let me apologize if I have caused any upset or confusion.
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I would question if Running With Scissors (I haven't read Dry, or any of the other books mentioned as being memoirs yet) properly counts as a 'memoir' in the sense that an autobiography is memoir. Surely it is more like In Cold Blood by Capote, which while based on true events is not really a 'true crime' book. I certainly read Running With Scissors knowing that it was based on the author's life but reading it as a work of literature, not a factually account, and thus a work of fiction. It would be interested to know if libraries catalogued as a fiction or non-fiction book. Thank you
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I just wanted to say I couldn't agree more and when it comes to these lists an element of definition might be useful while recognizing that the term gay will always be problematic for authors of earlier times and particularly non-Western cultures like Mishima.
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Not sure how often you are able to do maintenance on the list with RL and all, but I have noticed duplicates on the list.
Specifically, This Is How You Lose the Time War is on Page 18 & Page 13. Or it was before added my vote to them. 🙄🤓
Now now on p7 & p5
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