Best books with gay main characters
LESS, by Andrew Sean Greer. Comical, sweet, and beautifully written, with lovable, fallible characters, great comic timing, exotic locales, and moments of real insight into human nature. I adore this guide, though sometimes it hits a little too close to home: The main character is a neurotic novelist who bumbles through life and relationships, just as I do.
AT SWIM, TWO BOYS, by Jamie O’Neill. Historical fiction at its best, centered around the Easter Rising in Dublin in but primarily a devotion story about two teenage boys caught up in the violence happening all around them. Intelligent, thoughtful, and well-researched, it’s also sexy as hell without being overly graphic. The writing is top-notch, alternately funny and poignant, though sometimes I found the Irish dialect a challenge.
CLICKING BEAT ON THE BRINK OF NADA, by Keith Hale. Originally published in , this is a great coming-of-age story about adolescent first loves. The writing is crisp and straightforward, with tons of heart and some attractive erotic momen
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Gay characters and instances of queer representation have been taking up headlines at a surprisingly regular rate for the last few years, and often for not the most positive reasons. Entire movies like ‘Strange World’ and ‘Lightyear’ have bombed and had their lack of success attributed to their queer representation, regardless of whether this factor was due to the actual characters or simply audience reactions.
But how does the scene for queer characters look in the writing world, where things are less sensationalized, and the content stays viable for longer? It can definitely be said that gay characters in literature have an easier time with the opposition than those in film, given that books adhere closer to their individual niches and are marketed less strongly, but their variety and prominence have come to rise and fall over the years.
In the times of ancient Greek and Roman literature,
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I haven&#;t done a top ten in a while, so I figured it was noun. I usually try to scan more LGBTQ+ books during Pride Month, but since I got off to a slow initiate and didn&#;t post anything for basically the first half of the month, I figured I&#;d overcompensate with an extra-long list that includes both books that I&#;ve loved for years and some that I&#;ve just discovered recently.
Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdomby Leigh Bardugo
Genre: YA Fantasy
Queer Representation: Of the main characters, two are bisexual and one is gay. There is one major m/m romance and one additional minor queer character. In the sequel series, there is a queer relationship between a bisexual woman and a trans guy (note: he does not arrive out until near the end&#;to anyone, including himself&#; and therefore presents as female and uses she/her pronouns until then).
Brief Review: Six of Crows has posthaste become one of my all-time favorite books. It’s basically Ocean’s Eleven with actually amazing characters dumped into a uniquely inspired fantasy setting. There are limited
The debut elder novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena is a treasure story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women trying to find somewhere, or someone, to call home.
In , the bookshop I work for decided to start a couple of book clubs, and I offered to become the host and organise these meetings. They became something to bring people together (online) during a pandemic, and they provided a way to continue to learn in community.
For Educate Yourself Book Club — where we read books on subjects like racism, feminism, LGBTQIAP+ identity, fatphobia, and ableism — we pick fiction and nonfiction books we want to scan together, and then we verb what we have learned, bringing the books and our personal stories to the table.
No one in this group is an expert; we stay respectful and open to learning, using the tools at hand, and exchanging stories. It’s a humbling and interesting way to spend more time thinking about social matters, our own privileges, an