![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This wonderful collection of LGBTQ+ love poetry is a veritable who’s who of the queer canon, including voices from Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, Federico García Lorca, Sappho and Hart Crane, to name but a few. This list certainly doesn’t seek to provide a detailed account of the queer canon, but rather to give you a starting point, or an ‘I need to read that again’ moment, or simply to remind you that there are lots of other folk in this world, folk who felt the same strange kick in the gut when they read Giovanni’s Room, or Genet, or Hollinghurst for the first time, or who recognised the oddly liberating sorrow of Jeanette Winterson’s coming out gone wrong in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, or enjoyed the comforting company of community in the inhabitants of Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco. To nab a phrase from Allen Ginsberg, we’re "putting queer shoulder to the wheel", and we’d very much like for you, wherever you are in your journey, to join us. They are about being utterly and uniquely yourself. Others were written when being LGBTQ+ was finally something you could safely celebrate. Some were written at times when being LGBTQ+ was something too dangerous to admit to. ![]() They are different, often groundbreaking. They are also books that celebrate otherness and queerness. These are books that make you feel a part of something books that make you feel like you belong to something bigger. ![]()
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