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I think I might be gay. What books should I read?

>> No.8188627

>>8188616
start with the greeks.

>> No.8188628
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>>8185779

>> No.8188636

fan fiction

>> No.8188637
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>>8188616
read a magazine

>> No.8188644

>>8188616
is there a correlation between your bi-curiousity and your book request?
there's a lot you should read, but do you want specifically some gay shit?

Try A Single Man. The protagonist is homosexual, but it's a minor theme. There's no romance, his husband is dead and the main themes are loss, solitude, and detachment.

>> No.8188648

>>8188616

well memes are pretty faggy

try stirner

>> No.8188650

>>8188627
I've read Hegel and Heidegger

>> No.8188658

>>8188637
cool it omar

>> No.8188668

>>8188650
why would you even say that dumb shit

>> No.8188701

>>8188668
I don't know

>> No.8188707

>>8188616
Androphilia by Jack Donovan

>>8188644
Not OP but I've seen the movie and wasn't impressed. Is the book better or at least worth the read?

>> No.8188712

>>8188616
a book on how to identify and treat mental illness.

>> No.8188714

>>8188712
I'm too patrician for a therapist

>> No.8188719

The Greeks & Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
by James Davidson

>> No.8188731

I used to think I was bisexual a couple of months ago, but that was before my awakening. You realise there is really a leftist agenda in the media, promotion of deviant lifestyles....Subversive psychological warfare. The puzzle pieces fall together, PC culture, immigration, Marxism. Guess who controls the porn industry? Hint: it's Jews

We gotta be strong, bro

>> No.8188744

>>8188616
Oscar Wilde, especially De Profundis and Dorian G(r)ay. Alan Moore's Mirror of Love is good too.

>> No.8188767

>>8188731
I'm not joking. I haven't talked to anyone in months and I sleep for 10+ hours everyday. I have no idea what I'm doing. I think I'm insane and it's only a matter of time before I snap and kill someone.

>> No.8188768

>>8188707
I only saw half of the movie and I don't remember much.

The book is good, though. Very similar to Stoner, but shorter and more introspective. Hits this really dry British-as-fuck part towards the end though.

>> No.8188788

>>8188731
>>8188767
you could always do us a favor and kill yourself

>> No.8188881

>>8188616
If you believe that being gay means you have to read gay books, then I recommend anything with graphic descriptions of hot, juicy cocks and tight, musky assholes.

I don't know of any such books, but I remember The Forever War has an interesting depiction of gay acceptance in a future society.

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Does this painting give you a boner?

>> No.8188909

>>8188901
I'm not sure. I've kissed two boys before tho.

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>>8188909
what about this one

(this is a classic test of homosexuality)

>> No.8188926

>>8188914
No, but that's because I have no sex drive because of depression. I masturbate rarely and when I do I masturbate to torturing my childhood self to death. This comes across in my words and actions I feel.

>> No.8188934

>>8188926
Confessions of a Mask by Mishima ASAP

>> No.8188947

>>8188767
you can talk to us

>> No.8188989

>>8188767
There have been gay people for as long as man itself. Some civilisations didn't bat an eyelid.

You have to ask yourself why you would hate being gay. If you hate yourself because of how others may negatively receive your being gay, then you are not hating yourself because of homosexuality in itself, but because of bigotry.

>> No.8189003

Read some Proust. Doesn't matter if you're gay or not, you need some Proust.

If you like that and want something more gay and contemporary, try Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman. If I remember correctly, Aciman is a Proust scholar and he does a great job replicating that style.

>> No.8189207

>>8188989
I hate myself because I can't remember things and I don't have a therapist or a gf to help me out. Should I get really fucking high next time I get the chance? Is that what I'm supposed to do?

>> No.8189232

>>8188616

Mein Kampf
The Ego and His Own
Atlas Shrugged

>> No.8189309

Symposium
Faggots by Larry Kramer

>> No.8189342

>>8188616
Leviticus, and then kill yourself.

>> No.8189346

>>8188901
yes
>>8188914
no

what does it means??

>> No.8189360

>>8189232
this pretty much

>> No.8189383

>>8189360
you would think that

>> No.8189463
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Pretty much all Mishima is top tier gay writing, even the ones that don't have explicit homo in them.

An author heterosexuals will never understand tbvh

>> No.8189470

>...For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.... And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone)
What did he mean by this?

>> No.8189501

>>8188616
>reading books to confirm your sexual identity.
Go suck a dick and if you don't feel regret afterwards you're gay.

>> No.8189950

>>8188701
>>8188668
>>8188650
>>8188627
wow this is some quality dialogue. you guys mind if i used it in my book?