5. Thom Creed – Hero The amount of LGBT fiction which is targeted toward young adults always seems surprising at first, although when you stop to think, it actually makes a lot of sense. The teenage years are some...
6. Liza Winthrop – Annie on my Mind Coming to terms with your sexuality is typically not an easy thing to do, especially when you’re a bit different from the rest of the crowd. Going through it alone is...
7. Idgie Threadgoode – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café It’s a commonly held belief that books are typically better than the movies made out of them. While Fried Green Tomatoes was actually a...
8. Alec Scudder – Maurice. E.M. Forster’s novel: Maurice Great Britain, in the period leading to the First World War, wasn’t an especially inviting place for homosexuals. Even though E.M. Forster wrote and...
There is music created by gay people. There is “gay music” that is supposed to be supportive but comes off as pandering. And then there is music so unbelievable and unabashedly gay that it hits you in the face with...
9. Nancy Astley – Tipping the Velvet The beginning of Tipping the Velvet finds our protagonist, Nancy Astley, living as a naïve oyster girl in her family’s restaurant. She seems resigned to what appears to be...
10. Sam Clay – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon’s novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay pretty much has it all. You’ll find love, sex, death, comic books, harrowing...
