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Top 10 landmarks in gay and lesbian literature

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | 7:11 AM

From Walt Whitman to Colette and even Virginia Woolf, these books offer readers a vision of how we might live differently, and better

Ask me on another day and it would be other books: Shakespeare’s sonnets, Gilgamesh, the Greek Anthology, Sappho, Katherine Philips, Plato, Jean Genet, Ronald Firbank … So these 10 items are mere suggestions, not commandments.

My favourite working definition is that a gay text is one that is amenable to a gay reading. As simple as that. These categories exist not for their own sake, or for critics’, but in the service of the reader – the gay or lesbian reader first of all, but others too.

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