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10 best books like The Young and Evil (Charles Henri Ford): On Strike Against God, Gemini, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, Ladies Almanack, Island People, The Gallery, Five Novels, Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, Father of Frankenstein

On Strike Against God
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0895941864
I am so frustrated by not taking note of, or action on, this at the time, but I read something the other day that referenced something being "catty," in a "second wave feminist" way. What the fuck. How can I not remember where I read something so appalling? This book is Joanna Russ's only non-sci fi novel....
Gemini
AuthorMichel Tournier
ISBN0801857767
Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call them Jean-Paul. The mysterious bond between them excludes all others; they speak their own language; they are one perfectly harmonious unit; they are, in all innocence, lovers.

For Paul, this...
Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
AuthorAllan Bérubé
ISBN0743210719
This was a fascinating, and sometimes heartbreaking and infuriating, look at the GLBT men and women who came out while serving in the armed forces during WWII. It includes information on being gay on the home front as well.

In the 1940's, sodomy was a criminal act in the United States. Although...
Ladies Almanack
AuthorDjuna Barnes
ISBN1857548272
A nice long quote to show how great this is:

"In my day," said Dame Musset, and at once the look of the Pope, which she carried about with her as a Habit, waned a little, and there was seen to shine forth the Cunning of a Monk in Holy Orders, in some Country too old for Tradition, "in my day I was a Pioneer...
Island People
AuthorColeman Dowell
ISBN1564780937
In this complex novel, a gay man who has fled the violence of the city for an island retreat spends his time keeping a journal and writing stories. He invents a female alter-ego who haunts him, as does the ghost of the murderer who occupied his house in the 19th century; ultimately these hauntings are manifestations...
The Gallery
AuthorJohn Horne Burns
ISBN1590170806
John Horne Burns brought 'The Gallery' back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and...
Five Novels
AuthorRonald Firbank
ISBN0811207994
"Just because I want so much, it's extraordinary how little
I require," says a player in Firbank's fantasia, "Valmouth,"
wherein the bedizened denizens at a UK spa pleasure themselves
with misalliances and infatuations. Capt. Dick Thoroughfare,
heir to Hare-Hatch House, doesn't...
Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
AuthorLillian Faderman
Award-winning historian Lillian Faderman teams with journalist Stuart Timmons to write the first history of gay life in America's ultimate frontier town: Los Angeles
The exhortation to "Go West!" has always had a strong hold on the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered...
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
AuthorDavid K. Johnson
ISBN0226401901
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least...
Father of Frankenstein
AuthorChristopher Bram
ISBN0452273374
James Whale, the elegant director of such classic horror films as"Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein, " was found at his Los Angeles mansion in 1957, dead of unnatural causes. Christopher Bram, whose social insight and wit have earned him comparisons to Henry James and Gore Vidal, explores...
Bertram Cope's Year
AuthorHenry Blake Fuller
ISBN1885983263
In 1918, when Henry Blake Fuller was 62 years old, he completed Bertram Cope's Year. Though Fuller was well known as an accomplished realist and had published twelve previous novels, this was his first to address sexual ambivalence. Bertram Cope, a young college teaching assistant, is befriended...
Halfway Home
AuthorPaul Monette
ISBN0758201893



Paul Monette
* 16. Oktober 1945
† 10. Februar 1995

Dying was nothing to losing.

All my death watches having taught me that the thing itself when it finally came was beyond feeling.

This book is so eloquent, I would have to highlight the whole book to...
My Brother and His Brother
AuthorHåkan Lindquist
ISBN3867870853
"My Brother and His Brother" is a novel about two brothers. The story is told by one of them, Jonas, an 18-year old boy. Throughout his teenage years he has been trying to get an image of Paul, the brother he never met, a brother who died at the age of 16, the year before Jonas himself was born. The story is told...
Sins of the Cities of the Plain
AuthorJack Saul
ISBN1596542861
I don't know quite how to rate this book or if there was a point in my trying seeing as I did read it for school. And, more to the point, because it is Victorian pornography. Do I compare it to other books I read? Do I compare it to erotica, contemporary and past? Do I compare it to other Victorian pornographic...
Totempole
AuthorSanford Friedman
ISBN1590177614
Totempole is Sanford Friedman’s radical coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen’s evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-two-year-old...
Nigger Heaven
AuthorCarl Van Vechten
ISBN0252068602
A controversial but appealing, amusing, and vivacious celebration of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s

No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926. Carl Van Vechten's...
The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
AuthorElla Maillart
Once again Ella Maillart is on her way to Asia, but she is not alone. Christina, (real name Annemarie Schwarzenbach) a friend of Klaus and Erika Mann, accompanies her. She possesses exceptional charm and talent but she is a drug addict. Two courageous women, both highly original, find themselves in...
All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey
AuthorAnnemarie Schwarzenbach
ISBN0857420151
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan’s Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The...
The White Book (Le Livre Blanc)
AuthorJean Cocteau
ISBN0872862380
Man, it's a good thing that there aren't homosexual males today who are shamed by society and emotionally battered by jocko, bible-beating dads, preachers, politicians, and education systems into disingenuous heterosexual marriages with women they could never truly love, often driving them to...
My Body and I
AuthorRené Crevel
ISBN0974968099
In My Body and I (Mon Corps et Moi, 1925), René Crevel attempts to trace with words the geography of a being. Exploring the tension between body and spirit, Crevel’s meditation is a vivid personal journey through illusion and disillusion, secret desire, memory, the possibility and impossibility...
The Temple
AuthorStephen Spender
ISBN0802135242
The story behind this novel by one of twentieth-century Britain's greatest poets and men of letters is nearly as remarkable as the book itself. Not long ago, a friend just returned from America told the author that he had read in the Spender manuscript collection of the University of Texas a novel called...
The Exquisite Corpse
AuthorAlfred Chester
ISBN1574231979
At the end of the green corridor, a woman appeared, a large fat woman in a pink nightgown with two babies in her arms. She too began screaming. Husband and wife were yielding up nightmare screams. Yet, despite all their terror and desperation, Baby heard in their voices and read in their faces something...
Diaries: Volume One, 1939-1960
AuthorChristopher Isherwood
ISBN0061180009
At times pious, at times profane but always unashamedly honest, "The Diaries of Christopher Isherwood" provide an inside look at the life and times of one of the most celebrated writers of the century. Chronicling Isherwood's life from 1939, when he emigrated to the United States, until 1960, these...
The Friendly Young Ladies
AuthorMary Renault
ISBN0375714219
Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naïve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the stifling environment of her parents’ home in Cornwall to seek out her sister, Leo, who had run away nine years earlier. She finds Leo sharing a houseboat,...
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