BOOKS

Gay literature is a collective term for literature produced by or for the LGBT community, or which involves characters, plot lines or themes portraying male homosexual behavior.The term is now used most commonly to cover specifically gay male literature, with a separate genre of lesbian literature existing for women, although historically the term "gay literature" was sometimes used to cover both gay male and lesbian literatures.

 

THE CREATIVE REALM'S RECOMMENDED LESBIAN THEMED BOOKS 

 

1. Patricia Highsmith - Carol 
2. Sarah Waters - Paying Guests 
3. Nell Zink - Mislaid 
4. Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop 
5. Jeanne McCann - Love Times Four 

 

THE CREATIVE REALM'S RECOMMENDED GAY THEMED BOOKS

 

1. Darryl Pinckney - Black Deutschland 
2. Garth Greenwell - What Belongs To You 
3. Augusten Burroughs - Running With Scissors 
4. Armistead Maupin - The Night Listener 
5. John Sam Jones - Fishboys of Vernazza 

 

THE CREATIVE REALM'S RECOMMENDED BISEXUAL THEMED BOOKS 

 

1. Michael Cunningham - A Home At The End Of The World
2. Anais Nin - Delta Of Venus 
3. Ben Monopoli - The Cranberry Hush 
4. Brandon Williams - Teenage Rewrite 
5. Malena Watrous - If You Follow Me 

 

THE CREATIVE REALM'S RECOMMENDED TRANSGENDER THEMED BOOKS 

 

1. David Ebershoff - The Danish Girl 
2. Virginia Woolf - Orlando 
3. Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex 
4. Julie Anne Peters - Luna 
5. William Shakespeare - The Merchant Of Venice