Homosexual Literature
Homosexual Literature
Joined: 12/31/69
#0Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:23amIs it too gay that I want to buy every novel that deals with homosexuality (and not the x-rated ones) at amazon.com? Updated On: 2/1/05 at 04:23 AM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: How cliche is too cliche?
Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:49amCurious about what? My sexuality...or cliche's?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:06amYeah, I am I curious. I've read some stuff, like Chris Rice's novels, and then the horrible Rainbow boys. Has anyone read Desert Son?
#5Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:37amIf you want a hoot of a read, order GAYWYCK by Vincent Virga. It was the first gay gothic romance bodice ripper novel.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#6Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:38amCan it be gay and a bodice ripper? Surely it would be a breeches ripper, no?
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#7Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:39amI'd like a gay bodice-ripper story...
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 9:39am
Okay...Thanks for that. I'll check it out. Can you give me more of a synopsis?
Rath, haha. That made me laugh.
Updated On: 2/1/05 at 09:39 AM
#9Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:25am
I also loved "Gaywyck"
The sequel..."Vadriel Vail" not quite as good.
Originally published in 1980, Gaywyck, the first gay gothic romance, tread firmly in beloved territory, both honoring it and reinventing it. Classic in style, Vincent Virga creates a world as authentic as anything penned by DuMaurier, retaining the creaking ancestral mansion and mysterious and brooding master of the manor, while replacing the traditional damsel in distress with the young and handsome Robert Whyte, who was hired to catalog the vast library at Gaywyck. But before he can perform his real duty--of soothing the master's tortured heart--young Robert must first uncover the hidden evil lurking in the background and dodge murder and blackmail to root out the dark family secrets threatening to destroy him. Praised for its authentic use of language and setting as well as its honest portrayal of gay life and love in fin di secle America, Gaywyck is a classic of both gay and gothic fiction.
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#10Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:28am
But before he can perform his real duty--of soothing the master's tortured heart--
It probably shouldn't have done, but that made me laugh. Hard.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#11Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:30amThat came from Amazon...not me!
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
#12Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:45am
I agree with Jimmicf's assessment that the sequel, VADRIEL VALE, isn't as good as GAYWYCK. But truth be told, GAYWYCK aint no VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
The problem, to me, with the narrative of GAYWYCK is that Virga tries to throw in every ding-dang reference to the period (I think it's the early 1900s) that he can come up with. You find yourself wading and trudging through endless references to literature, architecture, drama, food, ad infinitum ad nauseum. Sometimes I wanted to just scream "fer gawd's sake, get to the good stuff!"
I know -- underneath this cultured exterior, I'm really just fascinated with Penthouse Forum descriptions. LOL
Get a load of the cover art!
Our Young Hero is in supplication to the Master of the Manor
Updated On: 2/1/05 at 10:45 AM
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#13Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:49amWho told you there was a cultured exterior?
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#14Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:50amYou know, even though you reek of tea and crumpets and all things Brideshead, this colonist will still slap the sh*t out of you, Pippa. :)
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#15Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:51am
You promise? 
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#16Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:52am
Why don't you buy the x rated ones? There's x rated and then there's books with "good parts".
Some of the fondest memories of my adolescence was reading forbidden novels and knowing where "the good parts" were.
None of them were gay, mind you. There weren't overtly gay people or even homosexuals in pop lit in the early 60s.
Peyton Place
The Carpetbaggers
Valley of the Dolls
Horseman, Pass By (McMurtry and the source of the movie Hud)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
among many others
Who needed hygiene classes when D.H. Lawrence was on the scene?
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#17Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 10:55amYou forgot COFFEE, TEA, OR ME -- a cautionary tale about the misadventures of 2 randy stewardesses. LOL
#18Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:25amChances and Hollywood Wives were it for me
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
#19Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:28am
Cue the ACL original cast album:
"Locked in the bathroom with 'Peyton Place'...."
#20Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:29amJudy Blume's "Forever" was the book passed around our high school cafeteria.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#21Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:37amPass the snack mix, Beav.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#22Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:39am*leaves*
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#23Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:44amI would never consider "Gaywyck" or Jackie Collins as literature...I guess the thread title should be "pot-boilers"
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
#24Homosexual Literature
Posted: 2/1/05 at 11:50amEntries From a Hot Pink Notebook by Todd Brown is by far the best gay novel I've read (three times). I also enjoyed Fag Hag by Robert Rodi (Toni Collette would be a perfect choice for a film version) and of course, the Tales of the City series by Armisted Maupin.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
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