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Gay Romance
Gay Love affair in Majorca
- By: Anthony McDonald
- Narrated by: Anthony McDonald
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The loveliest person ever sits next to you on the plane. But he’s in the wrong seat. You lose him, only to find him again, then lose him in the crowd This is the story of English Daniel, 23, and French Daniel, 22, on holiday separately, then together, in Majorca – or on Mallorca. Of their complex love tri-tangle with year-old Dunk and their revelation in the end that only Daniel will execute. Of how their holiday romance grows into something stronger, and how their holiday island becomes their home. This book contains a few frankly described scenes of gay sex.
Gay love stories in historical fiction
What was it prefer to be a lgbtq+ man in Paris in ? While researching my novel The Beasts of Paris, I couldn’t detect much in 19th-century writing about homosexual love, and even later there are strangely few literary, homosexual, period-set love stories (shout outs to Sarah Waters and Mary Renault), so I’m pushing the boundaries of both ‘love story’ and ‘historical’ here. All I found in 19th-century accounts is an occasional minor character – e.g. in Zola’s Nana – or documentary reports of police raids, or porn (thank you, Jack Saul). I delved into novels, paintings and photographs as well as history. And if my historical period stretches from Ancient Greece to the early s – well, you get what you can get.
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Maurice by E.M. Forster
The daddy of all gay romance stories. Although written in , Forster’s book was not published until after his death, in He was inspired to note it after meeting the writer and activist Edward Carpenter and his long-term partner George Merrill. It’s a deeply sympathetic picture of a man who experiences intense passion, first with his closeted optimal friend Clive, and then, after Clive’s marriage, with the self-acce
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