It seriously stinks that the majority of books on Out.com’s Best in Books list are GAY and not LESBIAN. What is with that? It’s always been that way but it seems to get worse with each passing year. Queer lit might be here to stay but it’s pissing me off. I mean HOW doggone GAY?! (Not that I want to turn this into an us/them sort of thing, I just want a little equality in the list.)
Another thing that is annoying is my library only has one of these (besides the entirely too mainstream "What do you mean those dudes were gay?" Son of a Witch). And as much as I like a good gay boy book (Have I ever told you about my Robert Rodi fixation???) I don’t like them well enough to BUY them. Toss some lesbian books on the list and I might spring for a few. Ya know?
I’m going to have to do some research and make my own BEST of LESBIAN LIT list! Anyone want to help?
Thanks to Daily Dose of Queer for pointing out the OUT list!
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I would if I could but I can’t.
But you post them and I’ll add them to my list of books to read “sometime” (which just keeps growing like a bad weed).
A patron at the library the other day asked me for lesbian teen lit. I had no clue. That’s really narrowing it down a bit.
Ack I can give you a gay teen lit list, some of which you might even have. I’ll get back to you!
Ms Adrienne – I posted a list. 🙂
Let me suggest a lesbian novel that came out in fall 2005, “Crashing America” by Katia Noyes. The book is appropriate for teenagers — Noyes appeared at San Francisco’s School of the Arts to discuss it with creative writing students — and it also appeared on amazon.com’s list of top lesbian/gay books of 2005. It’s a terrific novel.
Ha cool! I have not read that one or seen it in our lesbian bookstore. I’ll add it to me to be read list.
Thanks very much toobeaut!