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I'm gonna post this in /gaygen/ too but is there a good male homosexual literature reading list anyone could rec me? Even just a book or two? Like, the thought behind and maybe even philosophy behind male homosexuality?

>> No.11270122

>>11270103
Supposedly Proust was literally gay and writing about how gay love is more profound than straight love. Can't give you any details since I learned about this from secondary sources.

>> No.11270226

Pls help I gotta get some sleep

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>>11270103
Here you go faggot.

>> No.11270544

I'm interested in this too. I've just started reading In Search of Lost Time. Haven't really gotten to any homo stuff yet, but the Moncrieff translation is just so goddamn beautiful.

>> No.11270582

Cocteau, especially Le Livre Blanc

>> No.11270890

>>11270103
Call Me By Your Name
Confessions of a Mask
Forbidden Colors
Death in Venice
Memoirs of Hadrian

Those are all great fiction works that I’ve read and enjoyed. Mishima probably has other good stuff I just haven’t read yet.

>> No.11270898

>>11270103
bugs... easy on the carrots

>> No.11270915

One figure who hasn't been mentioned who is definitely worth checking out is Thom Gunn. He was an English poet, active 1950s-80s, who moved to California in (I think) the mid-60s. It's very interesting to look at his whole career chronologically. He starts off veiled and allusive and gradually gets more overt. When you re-read his older work in the context of the newer, you see almost everything he wrote is at least partly influenced by his homosexuality.

Some key poems:

>Lofty in the Palais de Danse
Talking about picking up a stranger, deliberately leaves the sex ambiguous (the way Auden did in a lot of early poems).

>For a Birthday
"I have reached a time when words no longer help..." The first sign he's beginning to chafe at not being able to speak directly.

>On the Move
One of his most famous poems; a good example of an early work that need not seem particularly sexual but becomes much more so when you revisit it with hindsight.

>Market at Turk
Uses the idea of the flick-knife in the pocket as a phallic symbol exactly the way Charles Laughton did in the film Night of the Hunter, and for the same purpose.

>The Allegory of the Wolf Boy
Once you know this is about being homosexual in England in the 1950s it makes perfect sense. Only anonymously at night can he indulge his true nature.

>The Feel Of Hands
Concentrates on a few minute physical details gives him some "plausible deniability".

>Touch
Similar to "Lofty in the Palais de Danse", he doesn't specifically mention the sex of his companion.

>Moly
Surrendering to his own sexuality.

>Jack Straw's Castle
Much more overt by this stage in his career.

>Sweet Things & Venetian Blind
Hedonistic homosexual hook-up culture.

>The Man With Night Sweats
AIDS.