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The Best Lgbtq+ Short Stories
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(A time capsule of gender non-conforming opinion, from the behind s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and queer novels in the tardy s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and same-sex attracted literature and to promote discussion among all readers queer and straight.
The Triangle&#;s Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Successfully of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
A Boy&#;s Own S
Short Stories
&#;Campus&#; by Aaron H. Aceves (them.)
&#;Birds Surrendered and Rehomed&#; by Kristen Arnett (Oprah Mag)
&#;Honey and Cold Stars&#; by AR Capetta (Everyday Chimeras)
&#;My Next Move&#; by Alexander Chee (The Good Men Project)
&#;13 Crimes Against Love, Or, The Crow&#;s Confession&#; by Alexander Chee (Lodestar Quarterly)
&#;The Shape of My Name&#; by Nino Cipri ()
&#;Your Eyes, My Beacon: Creature an Account of Several Misadventures and How I Found My Way Home&#; by C.L. Clark (Uncanny)
&#;The Cage&#; by A.M. Dellamonica ()
&#;The Tiger is a Metaphor&#; by Alison Evans (Slink Chunk Press)
&#;Pineapple&#; by Sara Farizan (Foreshadow)
&#;Epistolary&#; by Sacha Lamb (Foreshadow)
&#;Paradise&#; by Nina LaCour (Foreshadow)
&#;We Could Be Heroes&#; by Malinda Lo (Autostraddle)
&#;Let All the Children Boogie&#; by Sam J. Miller ()
&#;Unknown Number&#; by Blue (Azure) Neustifter (Facebook)
&#;Poland Itinerary, Class 3B&#; by Leeor Ohayon (Jewish Book Council)
&#;They Called Us&#; by Natalie Parker (The Hanging Gardens)
&#;The Spinner, the
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The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to allude to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for those wLGBT is an initialism that stands for womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, and transsexual . In use since the s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT collective beginning in the mid-to-late s.
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