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Feed your gay wanderlust with our roundup of the best 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 busy being fabulous…). So, we decided to stop scrolling on our phones and taking selfies on our bus/train/plane journeys, replacing that time with some reading instead. Just like the olden days.
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And what better way to shatter 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 What was it like to be a gay man in Paris in ? While researching my novel The Beasts of Paris, I couldn’t find much in 19th-century writing about homosexual verb, and even later there are strangely few literary, queer, period-set love stories (shout outs to Sarah Waters and Mary Renault), so I’m pushing the boundaries of both ‘love story’ and ‘historical’ here. All I create in 19th-century accounts is an occasional minor character – e.g. in Zola’s Nana – or documentary reports of police raids, or porn (thank you, Jack Saul). I delved into novels, paintings and photographs as adequately as history. And if my historical period stretches from Ancient Greece to the early s – well, you take what you can get. — Maurice by E.M. Forster The daddy of all gay love stories. Although written in , Forster’s book was not published until after his death, in He was inspired to write it after meeting the writer and activist Edward Carpenter and his long-term partner George Merrill. It’s a deeply kind picture of a man who experiences intense pass
Gay love stories in historical fiction
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