what is your favorite gay book?

Question

what is your favorite gay book?

Answer 1

"The Best Little Boy In The World" by Andrew Tobias

Answer 2

"Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg. It's an older book, but it's become an absolute classic and is one of the few I know that intimately speaks from the perspective of a lower-class butch/transgender lesbian in pre-Stonewall days. It delves deeply into everything it possibily could, and always touches me when I read it. I think everyone should read it- even though it doesn't intimately deal with them, it still has value and meaning for gay/bisexual men and non-butch gay/bisexual women, as well as other transgender/transsexual genderqueer individuals.



It's one of my top ones.

Answer 3

Oh my God. I don't like the sound of the book above.



Yeah my favourite gay book is 'The line of beauty' by Hollinghurst. It's clever and sexy.

Answer 4

'Eating Chinese Food Naked' by Mei Ng



I read this just before I came out and it gave me a lot of inspiration to see that other people were confused sexually as well.

Answer 5

Skipping Towards Gomorrah,

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America. by Dan Savage



(A review of the book)

Life, Liberty and the Freedom to Sin



There are those of us who adopt a "different strokes for different folks" philosophy when it comes to other people's actions and preferences. And then there are those of us who see lifestyles like homosexuality, promiscuity and drug use as morally wrong and who want to discourage the masses from practicing term. Terms for these people range from 'virtuous' to "virtuecrats," or, as Andrew Sullivan refers to them, "scolds." These people are the target of, and inspiration for Dan Savage as he wrote his book Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America.



As a sex columnist, atheist and homosexual, Savage obviously has an axe to grind with his muses, who include William J. Bennett, Patrick Buchanan and Robert Bork (author of Slouching Towards Gomorrah), as they all oppose his way of life and the sins he explores. As he sees it, despite their claims of virtue or patriotism or guidance, their attempts to discourage people from living their lives as they see fit or pleasurable is denying one of the main tenets of this country: the pursuit of happiness. "They've convinced themselves that the pursuit of happiness by less virtuous Americans is both a personal and a political attack." Their continued attempts to change people actually makes them inherently bad, explains Savage, as they prevent others from their right to pursue happiness. He adds, "Sinners, unlike the virtuous, do not attempt to impose their definition of happiness on others," as he talks about his failure to ever meet a pot smoker who tried to force non-drug users to toke or gay people out to convince straights to become homosexuals.



In order to prove his point, that is, that America's sinners can be and often are good people, Savage took a tour of the country, committing the seven deadly sins and meeting those who take pleasure in lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, anger and pride. Savage respectively meets with an Orthodox Jewish couple from Illinois who swings, attended at National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance convention in Las Vegas (where he also gambled, of course), smoked pot and lay in bed watching movies at home, spent a week at an exclusive and outrageously expensive spa in California, fired off some rounds at a shooting range in Texas and attended the Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco.

Answer 6

There all good for all sorts of different reasons,



A LOT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU FIRST READ THEM



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 Woman by Manuel Puig

9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

10. Zami: a new spelling of my name by Audre 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 Andrew Holleran

16. Maurice by E. M. Forster

17. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

18. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

19. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

20. Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

21. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

22. City of Night by John Rechy

23. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal

24. Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

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

26. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

27. The Bostonians by Henry James

28. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

29. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

30. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

31. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

32. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

33. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

34. The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

35. Olivia by Dorothy Bussy (out of print)

36. The Price of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith

37. Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw

38. Another Country by James Baldwin

39. Cheri by Colette

40. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

41. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

42. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

43. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

44. The Friendly Young Ladies (The Middle Mist) by Mary Renault (out of print)

45. Young Tšrless by Robert Musil

46. Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy

47. The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews (out of print)

48. The Gallery by John Horne Burns (out of print)

49. Sister Gin by June Arnold

50. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett (out of print)

51. Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

52. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

53. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

54. The Young and Evil by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler

55. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

56. A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan

57. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein

58. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli by Ronald Firbank (out of print)

59. Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman (out of print)

60. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

61. The Counterfeiters by André Gide

62. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

63. Lover by Bertha Harris

64. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

65. La Batarde by Violette Leduc

66. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

67. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

68. The Satyricon by Petronius

69. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

70. Special Friendships by Roger Peyrefitte

71. The Changelings by Jo Sinclair

72. Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima

73. Sheeper by Irving Rosenthal (out of print)

74. Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig

75. The Child Manuela (Madchen in Uniform) by Christa Winsloe

76. An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis

77. The Gaudy Image by William Talsman

78. The Exquisite Corpse by Alfred Chester (out of print)

79. Was by Geoff Ryman

80. Therese and Isabelle by Violette Leduc (out of print)

81. Gemini by Michel Tournier

82. The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White

83. The Children's Crusade by Rebecca Brown (out of print)

84. The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin

85. The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) by Jean Cocteau

86. Hell Has No Limits by Josè Donoso

87. Riverfinger Women by Elana Nachman (Dykewomon) (out of print)

88. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer

89. Closer by Dennis Cooper

90. Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac

91. Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley (out of print)

92. Rene's Flesh by Virgilio Pinera

93. Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai

94. Wasteland by Jo Sinclair (out of print)

95. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton

96. Sea of Tranquillity by Paul Russell (out of print)

97. Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson (out of print)

98. In Thrall by Jane DeLynn

99. On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ (out of print)

100. Sita by Kate Millett (out of print)