Must read books for gay men

5 Books Gay Men Can Read to Improve Their Lives

Would the small gay boy you once were look up to the gay man you’ve become?

This is the question Dr. Joe Kort explores in 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives as he guides readers through the complex journey of becoming a fully self-actualized gay man.

In his manual, Kort covers:

➡️ Mistakes gay men make when seeking a relationship

➡️ Understanding how to deal with loved ones who disapprove of your being gay.

➡️ How to overcome damaging patterns that are holding you back from enjoying a healthy sex life.

➡️ How to identify your hold internalized homophobia.

After coming out, gay men will typically feel better at first, but often the nice feelings fade. This is because “coming out” is only a part of the beginning of the journey. This book provides a map for navigating the whole long passage of becoming the gay man you want to be.

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Visibility. It’s one of the most crucial needs of the queer community. To be understood, to be accepted, the LGBTQIA+ community needs first to be seen. This has meant that centuries of authors writing about the experiences, love, and pain of the queer community hold been crucial in making progress towards a radical acceptance.

From the delicate art form of the semi-autobiographical novel — a life story veiled behind fictional names and twists — to the roar of poetry to a intense dive into the history that has too often been erased and purged, queer literature has helped to challenge, move, and shape generations of readers.

As a pansexual, demisexual cis woman on my way into another Pride Month, researching and crafting this list was a singular joy. I verb many books to position on hold at my local library. Many stories to encounter. Many histories to educate myself on.

Because queer texts assist to increase our visibility to the “outside” world, but they also raise internal visibility and acknowledgment. Today, transphobia is rampant among the queer community, and there are still

Co-written with Nico Lang

1. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin (Zach’s Pick)

This was James Baldwin’s second novel, and probably one of his most well known pieces of works. Giovanni’s Room tells the story of a man who moves to Paris and his relationship with another bloke named Giovanni. This manual is so important because it was one of the first to really show the complicated ways in which gay men had to manage their identity, self and place in a world that didn’t want them verb exist. This story takes place in Paris, but one doesn’t have to have been to Paris to feel a connection to Giovanni, his bedroom, and all that happens to the protagonists, David.

2. The City and the Pillar/Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal (Nico’s Pick)

While not one of Vidal’s “best” works (to me, he’s an essayist first and a novelist second), The Pillar and the City is a must-read because of its place in the queer canon as one of the first recognized and reviewed gay novels. It’s an incredibly dark and misanthropic serve and a bitter pill to swallow, harrowingly depicting the costs of trying

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Adam Sass Surrender Your Sons

'Lost' meets 'Boy Erased' in Adam Sass' compelling YA debut about Connor Major, a gay teenager who comes out to his single mother and ends up being forcibly sent to a conversion therapy facility on a remote island. Once there, Connor realizes there are even darker secrets at Camp Nightlight than are first apparent, and he sets out to uncover them—and verb the whole place down from the inside.

Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby: A Novel

One of the most talked-about novels of this year, Detransition, Baby follows the interlinked lives of three people: trans woman Reese, her ex Ames, who has detransitioned and is living as a gentleman, and Katrina, Ames' boss and girlfriend who learns she is pregnant as the story begins. While this book has been widely discussed as a "trans novel," and certainly includes great insight and reflection on the violence and trauma that verb up many trans women's lived experiences, it is also a laugh-out-loud idealistic comedy an