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Yourcenar was a Lesbian, partnered with Grace Flick, yet she had a habit of falling in love with gay men. All her novels, that I know of, have a gay man as the main protagonist.
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The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White. One of the greatest mysteries to me is how Patrick White is such a relative unknown in this country, particularly among queers. This was an openly gay man who won the Nobel Prize for literature for crying out loud.
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Twyborn is a masterpiece. White is a master stylist, his language is incredibly beautiful. I can recommend many of his novels, but in this one he deals with issues of gender, some 30 yrs before it became popular to do so.
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Time Remaining by James McCourt, a mess of a book. I truly believe that McCourt wrote it while on crystal meth or something, but one again, this is pitch perfect. I consider it the best AIDS novel ever.
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The story is in two parts, the second of which is told by an older, erudite, drag queen with a keen intelligence, Odette O'Day (yes, he's referencing Proust), as she travels on a train in the middle of the night. A whole world comes to life, everything we lost.
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Corydon by André Gide. This book meant the world to me when I was growing up. It consists of Socratic arguments about homosexuality, originally published almost 100 years ago. I believe Gide was the first openly gay man to win a Nobel.
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To close, The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories by Allen Barnett. I love this book because it came out at the height of the AIDS epidemic. He died not too long after. It's a stunning book, both artistically and as a record of the times.
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That's all for now. It's only five books (If I were to add a lesbian book, my favorite these days is Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw). As I said, this is only a list of books that I think don't get enough attention. I always feel guilty about recommending books on Twitter.
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