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I was 12 when I read it-and cried buckets. “Surely the earliest and most love-driven novel ever written in the genre. “I think Hall was writing about, and for, all of us.” On Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness Framing it in terms of a gay subject actually increases penetration and understanding of the text and characters rather than causing a shallowness of view.”
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But it’s an inherently ‘gay’ quantum in terms of the aesthetics obsessively doted upon and the shear scope of ambition. “It’s taken a long time for Proust’s world to traverse the journey from great literary classic to major work of ‘gay’ fiction. On Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time “It was the first one written specifically with gay characters.” A hundred years later, we now are able to celebrate our relationships and marriages, something Forster could not imagine at the time.” The author resisted publication because he feared reaction to the same-sex content. “Although it was only published in 1971, Maurice was originally written in 1913. Dorian Gray, as much as I love the book, is veiled so thickly in the gauze of Victorian innuendo that, even in the unexpurgated version released last year by Harvard University Press, we have to read between the lines.” “For me, Maurice is the first novel about explicitly romantic and sexual same-sex relationships. “Although not published until Forster’s death, this is the first openly gay novel on the list and the first book to describe homosexuality as a way of being in the 20th century.”
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“Dorian’s exploits are full of dark unspecified atrocities which, though not clearly stated (unless you read the more recent unexpurgated version, which has been fully restored), are veiled and coded for queer sensibilities.” On Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: So that was my first gay novel.”Ĭomments on the Eight Nominees spotlighted in the current issue included these: I saw it in a bookstore here in Seattle a few years ago in a vintage collection for about twenty dollars. It was a paperback for thirty-five cents. “The Young and The Evil was also published in 1933 but is more queer than gay.” Not today’s style, not well known, but there it is, a definite gay novel.”īetter Angel, by Ralph Meeker. “Published in 1870, before any of the others and a lot gayer, too, than the earliest on your list.
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“It would seem to me ‘the first’ means the first, which surely refers to date? Is that a semantic quibble or what? The first gay novel I know of is from the late first century AD as The Satyricon, by Gaius Petronius.”īayard Taylor’s Joseph and his Friend. Nominees from the 20th century included Better Angel, by Ralph Meeker (1933) Sam: A Frank Novel of Life and Loves in a Strange Twilight World, by Lonnie Coleman (1959) and John Rechy’s City of Night (1963).Ĭomments on “Other” Nominees included the following: Another book that preceded our lineup was Bayard Taylor’s Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania, published in 1870, with the additional subtitle of “The First Gay Novel” in a recent edition. (See chart.)Īs always in surveys of this kind, some of the most interesting responses came from those who didn’t find their selection on our list. Among the books they nominated were Homer’s Iliad and Petronius’ Satyricon from ancient times, which gets us into the definition of a “novel.” One reader thought something by the Marquis de Sade should have been included. Rounding out the roster were: The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (1928) Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1920s in English) James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) Mary Renault’s The Charioteer (1953) and Isherwood’s A Single Man (1964). Interestingly enough, all of the nominees received at least some votes.
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In second place was Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948), followed closely by Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). We received around sixty responses, and the clear winner was E. We offered the eight choices that are discussed in this issue, and also invited you to add a different book if your preference was not included. THE RESULTS ARE IN! We asked you to cast your vote for “the first gay novel” – which is the theme of the new issue of The GLR.