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Christopher Rice Recommends 9 LGBTQ Historical Fiction Titles
As Identity festival Month arrives, I&#;d appreciate to thank Book Trib for asking me to present a list of my favorite works of historical fiction in which queer men are the central characters. While I&#;ve been openly gay since publishing my first novel 20 years ago, it wasn&#;t until recently that I launched a adoration series, the Sapphire Cove novels, in which lgbtq+ male characters — their lives, their loves, their desires — were the sole focus.
After years of being pressured to convert my gay men into either a heroine&#;s brother or best confidant, Sapphire Cove became a place to tell the stories I&#;d always wanted to tell about the men I&#;ve loved. But if you sort through my Kindle or the books on my nightstand on any given late hours you&#;re likely to locate titles about the often erased or overlooked contributions queer men have made throughout history. The pickings are more plentiful than they were a limited while ago; these past few years have been a boon for fiction that explores these once lost and hidden lives. To be honest, I&#;ve had some trouble keeping up.
So I&#;ve decided to offer up a list that isn&#;t confined to my usua
Today on the site I&#;m delighted to welcome Rebecca Bendheim, author of the upcoming lesbian Middle Grade When You&#;re Brave Enough, which releases April 7, from Viking Books for Young Readers! Here&#;s the story:
A heartfelt, gorgeously written debut middle grade novel about best friends, first crushes, and coming out—perfect for fans of Kyle Lukoff and Jake Maia Arlow.
Before she moved from Austin to Rhode Island, everybody knew Lacey as one half of an inseparable duo: Lacey-and-Grace, finest friends since they were toddlers. Grace and her moms were practically family. But at school, existence lumped together with overeager, worm-obsessed, crushes-on-everyone Grace meant Lacey never quite fit in—and that’s why at her new middle college, Lacey plans to reinvent herself. This time, she’s going to be fresh . She’s going to be normal.
At first, everything seems to go as planned. Lacey makes new friends right away, she finds a rabbi to support her prepare for the bat mitzvah that got deprioritized by her parents in the chaos of the move, and she even gets cast in the lead role of the eighth-grade musical. Which is when things originate to get stressful, because it turns out the students at
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A celebration of Mexican culture, family, and forging our possess paths all in one, Canto Contigo is also a magnificent enemies-to-lovers romance. It begins with Rafael Alvarez who, in a hour span, led North Amistad Tall School’s Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their 11th consecutive Mariachi de Extravaganza de Nacional first-place win, and he met, made out with, and nearly hooked up with one of the most attractive guys he’s ever met.
Fast forward eight months, and Rafael was on track to lead his team to another win—but that was before his family up and moved to San Antonio his senior year. Not only is he dealing with the passing of his beloved abuelo, but the group at his modern school already has a lead singer, Rey Alvarez, meaning Rafael won’t be leading anyone to victory this year.
The hardest part of it all is that Rey is the guy that Rafael made out with, so despite the fact that they’re both vying for the same spot, Rafie can’t squash his feelings for Rey. Rafie’s abuelo always believed him to be a great Mariachi—but will he choose the people he’s known his entire life, or the one just starting to acquire to know
A couple of days ago, I shared 15 of the Most-Anticipated Queer Books of , but of course, that’s just scratching the surface. There are so many queer books coming out this year that look fantastic. I’ve got about titles in a spreadsheet now—and that’s just the ones we know about now! Collapse is the biggest season in publishing, and most of those haven’t been publicized yet.
I’m always interested in which homosexual books break through to the mainstream reading planet, so in addition to reading dozens of lists of upcoming queer books, I’ve also combed through six of the biggest mainstream lists of most-anticipated books of and pulled out the queer books I spotted. I used lists from Book Riot (naturally), Goodreads, Time, Vulture, Lit Hub, and Barnes & Noble (Fiction, Nonfiction, YA).
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