Gay and lesbian literature
Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part II
Michael Nava walks through the explosion of gay and lesbian publishing from 1980 to 1995, in this second installment of a three-part series for the LA Review of Books.
THE FIRST PART of this three-part series examined gay and woman loving woman literary output between 1940 and 1980, a period which can be summarized as almost nonexistent — a handful of books, most of them unheralded and quickly forgotten except by lesbian and homosexual readers for whom they were a lifeline. But it was a lifeline made of barbed wire; up until the 1970s, these books that had to conform their vision to the prevailing view of homosexuality as pathological or criminal if they ever hoped the detect their way into a reader’s hands. There were few happily-ever-afters, even if writers tried to drive small moments of triumph through the censors and gatekeepers. The gay and lesbian protagonists of books published in this period were lucky to flee with their lives. The emergence in the 1970s of a mass movement for lesbian and lgbtq+ rights, one that conceived of such legal protections as basic civil and human rights, changed t
Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II: History and Memory
Gay and Woman loving woman Literature Since World War II chronicles the multifaceted explosion of gay and lesbian writing that has taken place in the second half of the twentieth century. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter and a offset of gay and dyke concerns, it includes function by established scholars as well as young theoreticians and archivists who hold initiated new areas of investigation. The contributors’examinations of this rich literary period make it easy to view the half-century from 1948 to 1998 as the Queer Renaissance. Included in Gay and Female homosexual Literature Since World War II are critical and social analyses of literary movements, novels, short fiction, periodicals, and poetry as well as a stare at the challenges of establishing a repository for lesbian cultural history. Specific chapters in this groundbreaking work trace the training of gay poetry in America after World War II; examine how AIDS is represented in the first four Latino novels to deal with the subject matter; and chronicle the birth of lesbian-feminist publishing in the 1970s--showing how it created a flourishing gay literature
LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the legal title is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to swap the term lgbtq+ in reference to the LGBT group beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.
The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for those wLGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and trans. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the legal title gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.
The initialism LGBT is intended to stress a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, or gender nonconforming. To recognize this inclusion, a accepted variant adds the letter Q for
Isaac
ByCurtis Garner
Categories:LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction
A kaleidoscopic, intimate coming-of-age novel of modern queer life
Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Curtis Garner's debut novel, Isaac, is a queer story for our digital age, offering ...
Edited byMegan J. Elias & Alex D. Ketchum
Categories:LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Cooking, Trans & Non-Binary Literature, Lesbian Literature, Anthologies, Diverse Literature, Cultural Studies
An anthology of essays, comics, and recipes that reveals the dynamic and transformative association between queerness and food
Food has long played an important role in gay culture. Lesbian- and gender non-conforming ...
ByKawika Guillermo
Categories:Popular Culture, Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+ Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Cultural Studies, BIPOC, Asian Literature
An immersive journey into the author's lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to originate again
Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of ...
(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the late 1990s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the 100 leading lesbian and same-sex attracted novels in the late 1990s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers queer and straight.
The Triangle’s 100 Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Gal by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami by Audré Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
14. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
15. Dancer from the Dance by A