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Gay sex in literature didn‘t just make me a reader – it humanised my desire by Jamie Valentino: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2023/06/gay-literature-erotic-novels

One of the things I‘m learning about myself as I grow as a reader is that sometimes I just need a hard reset. Today is one of those days for me. I‘m going to DNF these two for now. Though I am interested in Josephine Baker‘s life, this biography is not hitting right for me. I‘m enjoying the tagged but I‘m just not feeling like finishing it right now. Does anyone else relate to this need for a hard reset sometimes?

Classics in the literature of HIV/AIDS and gay life in NYC during the 1980s. These are heartbreaking and highly emotional plays. I‘ve had them on my shelf forever and am glad I used them for the #booked2022 #aboutHIVAIDS prompt. Kramer is semi-autobiographical, especially in Destiny, which I wish I‘d read first. It‘s more of a coming out story. Normal Heart is focused on the early days of the epidemic

Full review https://www.TheBibliophage.com

Stunningly beautiful.
A triumph of its genre.
The Spell explores the entanglement of Robin, Justin, Danny and Alex, as they navigate lust, love, drugs, sex and intrigue with Hollinghurst's distinctive prose.

My full video review is on my BookTube channel: https://youtu.be/mOAnJW6KcZk.

This 1919 American novel by the now-forgotten Chicagoan writer Henry Blake Fuller portrays gay male life so subtly that few of its contemporary readers and reviewers had the foggiest what it was all about. They weren't outraged, just confused as all get-out. Fuller was so put-out he withdrew the novel and died a decade later.

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When you haven't traveled in a year and a half, may as well go big. We've been to Aruba before, but this time felt really special. Wish I had more pictures, but we were enjoying ourselves way too much to pull out our phones 🏖🌞🌴

#julyjourneys

Ace! Love his writing, the way he has female narrator and characters who speak from their inner selves.
This story unfolds to a few real shocks and unforeseen plots. Really great book. ☺😊😍🐱🐈

Drawn to this from the title, started it st breakfast. Think Shadow wants it too 🐈🐱🐈😍😁

For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Essex Hemphill was an American poet (and performance poet) and essay writer. His poetry and essays are published in multiple anthologies, and he's written introductions for anthologies. #pocvoices #blackvoices #lgbtqvoices #lgbtq #poetry #essays

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