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Brother & Sister Enter the Forest by Richard Mirabella

The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

2023 Literary Fiction Featuring Queer Men

49 books — 45 voters

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

The Coward Does It with a Kiss by Rohase Piercy

The Case of the Pederast's Wife by Clare Elfman

Featuring Wives of Gay Men

6 books — 4 voters

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Gay Dads

90 books — 11 voters

HomoAmerican - The Secret Society by Michael K. Dane

Gay Male Culture

144 books — 14 voters

The Painting of Porcupine City by Ben Monopoli

True to Life Gay Protags

5 books — 3 voters

All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy

2022 Releases Featuring Queer Men

182 books — 129 voters

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“ As long as she lived Stephen never forgot her first impressions of the bar known as Alec's—that meeting-place of the most miserable of all those who comprised the miserable army. That merciless, drug-dealing, death-dealing haunt to which flocked the battered remnants of men whom their fellow-men had at last stamped under; who, despised of the world, must despise themselves beyond all hope, it seemed, of salvation. There they sat, closely herded together at the tables, creatures shabby yet tawdry As long as she lived Stephen never forgot her first impressions of the bar known as Alec's—that meeting-place of the most miserable of all those who comprised the miserable army. That merciless, drug-dealing, death-dealing haunt to which flocked the battered remnants of men whom their fellow-men had at last stamped under; who, despised of the world, must despise themselves beyond all hope, it seemed, of salvation. There they sat, closely herded together at the tables, creatures shabby yet tawdry, timid yet defiant—and their eyes, Stephen never forgot their eyes, those haunted, tormented eyes of the invert. Of all ages, all degrees of despondency, all grades of mental and physical ill-being, they must yet laugh shrilly from time to time, must yet tap their feet to the rhythm of music, must yet dance together in response to the band—and that dance seemed the Dance of Death to Stephen. On more than one hand was a large, ornate ring, on more than one wrist a conspicuous bracelet; they wore jewellery that might only be worn by these men when they thus gathered together. At Alec's they could dare to give way to such tastes—what was left of themselves they became at Alec's. Bereft of all social dignity, of all social charts contrived for man's guidance, of the fellowship that by right divine should belong to each breathing, living creature; abhorred, spat upon, from their earliest days the prey to a ceaseless persecution, they were now even lower than their enemies knew, and more hopeless than the veriest dregs of creation. For since all that to many of them had seemed fine, a fine selfless and at times even noble emotion, had been covered with shame, called unholy and vile, so gradually they themselves had sunk down to the level upon which the world placed their emotions. And looking with abhorrence upon these men, drink-sodden, doped as were only too many, Stephen yet felt that some terrifying thing stalked abroad in that unhappy room at Alec's; terrifying because if there were a God His anger must rise at such vast injustice. More pitiful even than her lot was theirs, and because of them mighty should be the world's reckoning. ...more ”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

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“ The odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness? ”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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