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Ernesto (New York Review Books Classics)

by Umberto Saba

Published: 2017-03-28

Paperback: 160 pages

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A coming of age story that is a classic of gay literature, now in English for the first time  An NYRB Classics OriginalErnesto is a classic of gay literature, a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy’s most admired poets. Ernesto is a sixteen-year-old boy from an ed...

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Faggots

by Larry Kramer, Reynolds Price

Published: 2000-06-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one of the best-selling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and reading it today i...

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Numbers

by John Rechy

Published: 1994-01-13

Paperback: 256 pages

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Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the "numbers," the men who wil...

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Notes of a Desolate Man

by Chu T'ien-wen, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Lichun Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun Lin

Published: 2000-11-15

Paperback: 184 pages

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Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan.The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and l...

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Another Morocco: Selected Stories (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

by Abdellah Taïa

Published: 2017-03-24

Paperback: 168 pages

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Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. -- from Another MoroccoIn 2006, Abdellah Taïa returned to his native Morocco to promote the Moroccan release of his second b...

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Mundo Cruel: Stories (Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Fiction)

by Luis Negron

Published: 2013-03-12

Paperback: 96 pages

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Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature...

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Beijing Comrades

by Bei Tong

Published: 2016-03-15

Paperback: 312 pages

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When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naïve, working-class architectural student—the attraction is all consuming.Arrogant and privileged, Handong is unsettled by this desire, while Lan Yu quietly submits. Despite divergent lives, the two men spend ...

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The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973

by Clayton Delery-Edwards

Published: 2014-06-05

Paperback: 216 pages

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On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city's history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who norm...

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God in Pink

by Hasan Namir

Published: 2015-11-17

Paperback: 240 pages

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Lambda Literary Award winner, Best Gay FictionA revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young gay Iraqi struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture. Ammar is a sheikh whose guidance Ramy seeks, and whose tolerance...

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A Love Like Blood

by Victor Yates

Published: 2015-11-12

Paperback: 202 pages

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Half Somali and Cuban, 17-year old Carsten Tynes, deals with the intricacies of sexuality, race, Americanism, syncretism, and migration under his dying father's abusive hand in A Love Like Blood. Set in 1998, his family relocates to Beverly Hills, MI to expand their photography business. His father has...