“Why Be Happy” tells the story of Winterson’s troubled childhood and her journey to overcome her trauma. Her mother is a religious zealot who mistreats her gay adoptive daughter with beatings or by locking her out of the house all night. Winterson,” at the center of the narrative in this memoir. The author, acclaimed for her autoiographical first novel, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,” places her mother, “Mrs. WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? (2012) By Jeanette Winterson Yet while the book starts in the third person, “we” turns to “I” and “they” as the narrator’s seuxality distances him from his brothers, who smell his “sharp, sad, pansy scent.” They are mixed race (their father is Puerto Rican and their mother white.) On the narrator’s seventh birthday, his mother is recovering in bed from a severe beating by their abusive father - and their family troubles bring the boys closer together. This semi-autobiographical novel is about a 7-year-old boy and his two brothers, all trying to find their place in upstate New York, where they do not fit in with the white working-class children. It evocatively captures the time when they were a young couple, both unknown and on the brink of fame. Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction, this memoir documents Smith’s relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer later known for his sadomasochistic imagery, before he came out as gay. This debut novel is a beautiful twist on the gay coming-of-age story. Then, one day, Kiran starts to think that he might be a descendant of Krishna, a Hindu god, and starts to model his life after him. Kiran Sharma, a 12-year-old gay Indian-American boy, chooses ballet over basketball and wears his mother’s perfume to school, becoming a social outcast and upending his parents’ expectations. McDermott captures theater life well, and infuses the book with an international cast of characters. But while there, he is caught up in a romance and a frenzied schedule that cause him to neglect his medication, putting his health at risk leading up to opening night.
When his former mentor, William Weiss, calls on him to participate in a final production, he hops a plane to Italy to join the cast. This novel by longtime theater actor Keith McDermott follows Gerald Barnett, a retired actor suffering from AIDS. This novel, set between 18, treads the line between fiction and biography, exploring the later life of Henry James, the writer known as “the Master.” Colm Toibin imagines, with vivid detail, members of James’s circle - like his devoted manservant, Burgess Noakes - as well as James’s feelings of guilt, regret and homosexual longing. Grappling with feelings of inadequacy in the lavish “looking-glass world,” he discovers metropolitan gay life through a friendship with Leo, a civil servant. This book, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2004, takes place in pre-AIDS London and follows Nicholas Guest after he is invited to stay in the mansion of his Oxford friend’s father, Gerald Fedden, M.P. THE LINE OF BEAUTY (2004) By Alan Hollinghurst Corporate World: What is it like to transition while working for Wall Street? A Goldman Sachs’ employee shares her experience.They are now preparing to return to the office.
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The book was later turned into a movie starring Eddie Redmayne. In this fictionalized account of the surgical transition of the Danish painter Einar Wegener from man to woman, Ebershoff explores how the events might have affected Wegener’s family and life. THE DANISH GIRL (2000) By David Ebershoff “Firebird” explores his mother’s alcoholism, the challenges involved in being a “chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent,” and how art saved him. Mark Doty’s gay coming-of-age memoir follows Doty and his family across the country as they move from Tucson, Ariz., to Sweetwater, Tenn., for his dad’s job as an Army engineer. The women’s lives intersect in a surprising and beautiful way. The third central character is Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife in the late 1940s who feels suffocated by her life. Meanwhile Clarissa Vaughan lives in modern day New York City with her lover, Sally, and is planning a party in honor of her friend Richard, an AIDS-stricken poet who is set to receive an award. Dalloway.” In fact, Woolf is one of the three characters the story follows, as we find her in a suburb of London in 1923, beginning to write the novel. Awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “The Hours” is a riff on Virgina Woolf’s “Mrs.