My favourite gay reads, first part

Maurice is a classic, a bit boring in parts, but you have to read it if you're interested in victorian mores and gay people

The only novel of Playwright Noel Coward. Great fun to read, in this parodistic "Samolan" colony being visited by the British Queen!

Armistead Maupin is a great writer, read the first three of the series, it goes downhilll from there. But Michael Tolliver and his lover's plight will move you, and their zany neighbors will make you laugh!

Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter was, if not the first, the most notable of early times' gay sleuths, a revolution in mystery writing, where GLBT people were never portrayed positively, at best as a comic relief. Joseph Hansen brought about a positive image of gay people in Mystery novels back in the early seventies.

Alan Hollinghurst's novels boldly depicted unashamedly realistic gay characters, and this "Spell" is the swifiest and less ponderous novel