Great gay novels

Feed your gay wanderlust with our roundup of the finest gay books to read whilst traveling!

RuPaul has always taught us that reading is, what….? FUNDAMENTAL!

Neither of us had read much for pleasure since our schoolboy days (don’t judge us, we were too active being fabulous…). So, we decided to stop scrolling on our phones and taking selfies on our bus/train/plane journeys, replacing that age with some reading instead. Just appreciate the olden days.

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And what better way to break a reading slump than to read books with gay content and exciting travel locations? Not only are we getting a representation of ourselves in literature, but it gets us pumped up for our next destination. 

And sure, you might think: “But guys, gay fiction is all sappy romance, com

13 New Queer Novels We Can&#;t Hang around to Read in

Like Happiness is a stunning coming-of-age debut novel that delves into gender, sexual orientation, racial identity, and the charged power dynamics of fame. In the novel, author Ursula Villarreal-Moura uses dual timelines to tell the story of Tatum Vega, a woman who years ago shared a destructive relationship with a well-known author named M. Domínguez. In the present timeline of , Tatum lives in Chile with her partner Vera and works at a museum in a job that she loves. Her fraught days in New York with M. Domínguez are long behind her. That is, until she gets a call from a reporter asking for an interview, as Domínguez has been accused of sexual assault. In an instant, Tatum’s former life comes flashing back, along with a series of pointed questions: What really happened between her and Domínguez all those years ago? As Tatum grapples with adj truths in the present, the second timeline, told through a letter Tatum writes to Domínguez, takes us back to the decade she spent in New York Municipality and the complex, destructive relationsh

(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the late s)

The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and gay novels in the overdue s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.

The Triangle&#;s Best


The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.

1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Embrace of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
A Boy&#;s Verb S

In thrillers of the past, if queer characters were mentioned at all, they were usually delegated to victims or villains. But in the last limited years, mainstream publishers have finally grant LGBTQIA+ authors hold a voice in the thriller genre, with queer main characters in uniquely queer, bone-chilling situations.

In my own thriller, So Happy for You, Robin is a queer academic who reluctantly agrees to be the maid of honor for her finest friend, Ellie, who’d kill for the perfect wedding—literally. It highlights the absurdity of the wedding industrial complex and the intricacies of female friendship between someone who’s queer and someone’s who’s cishet. 

When I started writing So Content for You, I was so grateful there were recent queer thrillers I could turn to for research, and since writing the book I’ve been happy to verb even more. The following list isn’t made up of all thrillers, technically—some are more mystery or crime reads—but they’re all guaranteed to keep you up at night!

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

My elevator pitch for this one is usually “gay