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frankenshane

LIST OF LITERATURE WITH LGBT THEMES (My Personal Rec List for silamai & Anyone Else)

Mar 29, 2011 23:21

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde*
The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde*
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (I also suggest Close Range, the book of short stories it comes in.)
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman (Especially the section called Calamus, as it's full of his poems about being attracted ( Read more... )

books: full of the gay, books: other voices other rooms, books: allen ginsberg; beatnik slut, books: the hours, books: poetry, books: classic sci-fi, books: havemercy, books: breakfast at tiffany's, books: woolf is hbic, books: brideshead revisited, books: tipping the velvet, books: modern classics, books: stephen fry's a bamf, books: mrs dalloway, lj: public post, books: classics, books: walt whitman is a bamf, books: making history, books: are my life, books: wicked, books: truman capote is my twu lub, books: oscar drives me wilde, books: maurice

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oywidapoodles March 30 2011, 07:13:31 UTC

/bookmarks/

SEE WHAT I DID THAR

frankenshane March 30 2011, 07:24:22 UTC

I DO, AND I THINK IT'S QUITE CLEVER.

silamai March 30 2011, 07:54:51 UTC

For the Wicked stuff I would recommend the second book, Son of a Witch. It follows Liir and his attempts to find and rescue the kids he grew up with after Elphaba exiled herself to the west near the end of the last book, and he briefly ends up in a relationship with a soldier.

I'm with you on the Vampire Chronicles, too. I never could bring myself to read past Body Thief, I was so annoyed with Lestat. I liked him better as a crazy villain who danced with corpses. Him as a romantic hero just made me roll my eyes so hard.

frankenshane March 30 2011, 08:59:15 UTC

Oh, now that's shiny! I'm going to get to that one as soon as I can now, oh my god.

I KNOW RIGHT? It only got better when some of the other vampires swooped in and decided to give their back stories in sexy detail. That and Lestat was effectively in some sort of (temporary) coma, so the situation was a win/win.

antinous_wild March 30 2011, 17:18:50 UTC

Unsolicited recs (sorry).

You should give At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill, and Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman, a try. Two of my favorites. As for Wilde, De Profundis is pretty explicit -- it's a love letter (of sorts) to Bosie. In terms of poetry, Crush by Richard Siken is pretty fabulous. The graphic novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is one of my favorites. Orlando by Virginia Woolf has some really interesting gender-bending. And Nightwood by Djuna Barnes features both lesbian relationships and a character implied to be trans* (though the term didn't exist back then).

frankenshane March 30 2011, 17:40:49 UTC

You know me, I love recs even when they're unsolicited. So, thanks!

I've actually got a copy of At Swim, Two Boys, Nightwood, and Orlando, I've just not gotten to reading them yet. AND I AM SO EXCITED TO READ THEM. But they'll have to wait a bit because my brain is being consumed by The Dark Tower. (Sososo good, but I'm biased because I love King's brain that lives off my terror and fascination.)

De Profundis is a (sort of) love letter?! I didn't know that, now it's near the top of my list. /makes note of the others you mentioned