Books about unrequited gay love
Unrequited love
Generally it goes something like this: girl arrives in new town (*)--> girl meets strange and intriguing guy --> strange and intriguing guy turns out to be werewolf/ vampire/ vampire hunter/ Elf Lord (or whatever) --> girl and intriguing guy get it together and things lose their edge rather.
The important plot element as far as you're concerned (I think) is what happens next. In many of these books there's another 'love' story going alongside the boy meets girl intimacy thing and it's the unrequited one. In most of the books I've read, this is actually the interesting story. Here's a list off the foremost of my head:
- in the Morganville vampire stories, there's a dangerous-sexy-hopelessly-insane vampire not-really-love-interest who's much sexier and more intriguing than the actual love interest (there's a ghost love story in the first of those books as well)
- in Michelle Sagara's Cast series there's a shockingly sexy and mysterious Elf Lord (though actually the main love
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Welcome, Welcome, one and all. Wherever you are, whatever state of the nature we&#;re all in right now, whatever uphill battles you&#;re facing, I aspire this blog finds you in a place where you can find optimism and joy somewhere, somehow. Now, more than ever, I find myself reaching for more and more queer stories in my everyday life. Sometimes, that&#;s in articles online, podcasts, documentaries, but more often, I&#;m reaching for books. Queer authors writing today are at the foremost of their game; they&#;re more experimental, more liberating, more challenging, more stimulating. Against the backdrop of all that&#;s happening, they refuse to stop writing queer stories, and there&#;s something wonderful about that.
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Book Review: Despised and Rejected
A. T. Fitzroy’s Despised and Rejected is one of many books described as “the first gay novel ever published,” although as noted in the preface, it was at least thirty years too overdue to claim that honor. Always dangerous to claim that anything is the first X! There’s always some obscure tome waiting in the wings to prove you wrong!
However, Despised and Rejected was published in , so it’s certainly an first contender to the male lover novel sweepstakes. Soon after its publication it was prosecuted, technically for its pacifist themes rather than its homosexual ones, although the latter kept coming up at trial till the judge complained testily that the book wasn’t up on obscenity charges.
So what’s it about? We start with Antoinette, who has bopped through her life cheerfully getting crushes on women, with nary a thought that this might be odd in any way. Away on a visit, she meets Dennis, who soon after starts writing her passionate letters, because she has sparked something in his soul and he is hoping desperately that he can blow this spark up