Gay Dramatic Novels - Gay Fiction Book Listings on Rainbowsauce GLBT Media Resources

You might want to get out the tissues for these novels! This section features gritty lifestyle dramas, heart wrenching family stories, dramatic coming out stories, historical dramas and much more.

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	All Books by Michael Arditti - Author of : The Celibate Hardcover - 341 pages Reprint edition (June 1997) Soho Press, Inc.; ISBN: 1569470898 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Michael Arditti's The Celibate is an ambitious work that challenges the standard parameters of the gay novel: although it could be classified as a coming-out tale, the book is more accurately described as the record of a spiritual journey with historical and overtly sexual overtones. Told in the first person, The Celibate is the story of an almost-priest who, after a nervous breakdown, begins dealing with his sexuality, a path that includes hustlers and s&m. The narrator's day job is guiding tourists through Jack the Ripper's crime scenes, and Arditti uses this material to show how the historical and the personal, the spiritual and the political inform one another, giving The Celibate depth and compassion. It is, in essence, a meditation on sex, violence, forgiveness, and faith." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Reinaldo Arenas - Author of : Singing from the Well Paperback - 206 pages (July 3, 2000) Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 014009444X "Gay Dramatic Novels; Overwhelmed by the cruelty of his family, a young boy tries to escape to a fantasy world in the hills surrounding his home. - This first novel in Arenas's "secret history of Cuba"-- a quintet he called the Pentagonia--is a powerful story of growing up in a world where nightmare has become reality, and fantasy provides the only escape." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Laura Argiri - Author of : The God in Flight Paperback Reprint (May 1996) Penguin USA (P); ISBN: 0140254137 "Gay Dramatic Novels; In 1878, while attending Yale University and trying to escape his father's abusiveness, Simion Satterwhite meets art professor Doriskos Klionarios, and they begin a tumultuous love affair scorned by their society." Click to buy this book in USA or UK:
	All Books by James Baldwin - Author of : Just Above My Head Paperback - 544 pages (June 13, 2000) Delta; ISBN: 0385334567 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Gay Dramatic Novels; The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to a church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It On The Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Pat Barker - Author of : The Eye in the Door Paperback Reprint edition (April 1995) Plume; ISBN: 0452272726 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Drawing of the history of the Pemberton Billing libel trial in which all Britain's military troubles were laid at the door of the British homosexuals, themes of persecution and prejudice are explored alongside questions of class and identity. By the author of "Regeneration" and "Union Street"." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Eddie Beverage - Author of : 200 Beats Per Minute Paperback - 168 pages (September 15, 1998) Sure Shot Publishing; ISBN: 0966429702 "Gay Dramatic Novels; From the Author: I decided I really wanted to reach people with this novel. I wanted them to feel the bass, and see the lights, but I also wanted it to be more than that. When you read 200 Beats, you're witnessing the maturation process in action; the maturation of Danny Boyle.. and of myself, as a writer and a person" Click to buy this book in USA:
	All Books by Thomas Boggs - Author of : Tokyo Vanilla Paperback - 256 pages (February 1998) Gay Men's Press; ISBN: 0854492550 "Gay Dramatic Novels; The story of a Japanese college student who gradually realizes his sexual orientation and falls in unrequited love with a handsome Japanese heartbreaker." Click to buy this book in USA or UK:
	All Books by Brian Bouldrey - Author of : Love, the Magician (Gay Men's Fiction) Hardcover - 220 pages (October 2000) Haworth Press; ISBN: 156023993X "Gay Dramatic Novels; This novel shows the ordeals that AIDS survivors face, and how being HIV positive no longer equals a slow, painful death. In April of 1997, Tristan Broder makes a pilgrimage from San Francisco to the prickly desert and scalped mountains around Tucson, Arizona, the place where he helped bury his partner Joe, who died of AIDS five years before. Guided by a lingering and deep-seated love, he wanders back towards renewal and resurrection, memory and mystery, deadly secrets and dark intentions. There are plenty of people in the desert who still love Tristan as much as they did Joe. There's Maria, Joe's wild sister, now a born-again Christian; her truck-driving husband Earl; Joe's mother with the dog Murphy she found one day abandoned in the desert; and Joe's best friend Mik, a tough-minded Punjabi Muslim whose one vanity is his long silken hair. With open hearts, they join Tristan to help him make a memorial to the memorable man he loved. Yet, despite the fact that they are all bound, like Tristan, by the love for the friend who once lived among them, every one of them is hiding something far darker..." Click to buy this book in USA or Canada:

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