Recently started reading In Search of Lost Time, found a copy of a book by W.Somerset Maugham, and bought Where Angels Fear to Tread. Got home and looked up the authors, all gay, all gay, gay.
Really interested in gay lit, now.
You'd think a simple Google search would help, but Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman came up who I know were not totally gay or gay at all! Which gay writers do you guys like??
Why do you want “gay” authors?
>>7856092
Yukio mishima, the man was an absolute fairy.
>>7856114
I'll admit it. I... am gay. I want to explore my new-found, gay identity.
>>7856114
to speculate on what a work might be like if anyone on /lit/ got published
>>7856120
It isn't a “community” and it's stupid as hell to search for homosexual authors and not homosexual stories. Neither Marcel Proust nor Yukio Mishima were “LGBT”.
>>7856114
I am gay, but >>7856120 is not me.
In the gay community, guys are always talking about knowing our "herstory", but their idea of knowing our history is just watching vintage gay documentaries and wikipedia articles. I really want to read the perspectives of gay authors, even if they're not writing about gay things, they're writing from a gay perspective.
>>7856122
and also this, a lil bit.
http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/books/the-way-of-men/
>>7856135
Besides the “gay community” being a completely pointless, shallow concept no writer old enough to be a “classic” actually considered himself “gay”. Marcel Proust, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, André Gide or even Jean Genet were nothing like authors of “gay literature”.
>>7856157
and a cat doesn't know that it is a cat
But it does everything a cat would do.
Who cares if they didn't think themselves "gay".
Besides, today's authors of "gay literature" are cringe worthy.
>>7856120
>>7856138
I had to drop it since that one since it was too tryhard, it's rare when people stylize their fetish into a worldview
>>7856178
A “gay” who doesn't consider himself a “gay” is homosexual and that's all. Who cares? I would say “you” since you want so much to understand their perspectives, and none of them wrote while bearing in mind this fraudulent, political conception behind “gay”.
Of course gay literature is cringy. It makes no sense. Homosexuals aren't link together, they don't share anything. “Being gay” refers to nothing and making up a community out of this cannot be something but a total failure.
I think being gay is just as much of a link as being christian or something. I mean, craving cock has to alter your worldview from the pussy craving worldview of straight men somehow.
Maybe read the beats. They were all fags.
>>7856120
>my new-found, gay identity.
this is something you have constructed, not "found".
people invent identities because they want to forget that they have a will. The man who is into child porn, or bestiality, or anything else that disgusts the sensible human being, generally has some notion that he can't help it. It's somehow inherent in him. He could never get off to the vanilla stuff.
then they can ignore questions about an overindulged sexual imagination. they can ignore their conscience telling them that they need to kick the habit. they can't help it! it's just who they are!
"identity" shit is pure fatalism. you're just a human being like everyone else.
>>7856339
>"identity" shit is pure fatalism
estrogen-high processed foodstuffs, genetics, and dissolution of sexuality by hypermedia are kinda fatalistic
>>7856339
Go back to your cross-eyed grave Sartre
>>7856343
you're absolutely right that those are the things that fatalists love to talk about
>>7856339
Are you assaulting my gayness by denying its existence, and even comparing it to pedophilia and zoosexual? Implying it's a habit I should kick? Implying I could "turn straight" if I just tried?
Wow. Wow. /pol/ is that way, you charlatanous BIGOT.
>>7856360
>denying its existence
in a limited sense, yes
>comparing it to pedophilia and zoosexual
those were extreme examples, but yes, they are comparable
>it's a habit I should kick?
yes
>I could "turn straight" if I just tried?
I don't think you could conceive an identical passion for women, nor should I want you to. I do think you could give up your gay passions.
>>7856339
This x100000000
Wilde
Yukio Mishima and Pier Paolo Pasolini
