I'm reading my first gay novel!

[Adrenaline]

Thought you'd like to know.

 

[BBWetKitty]

is it Fabuuuulous?

 

[restlessnights]

How gay is it? Is it Mysteries of Pittsburgh gay or more so?

 

[ma_guy]

How do you know it's a gay novel? Did you catch it on the book shelf blowing another novel???

 

[Adrenaline]

I forgot that I had started this thread (I had been drinking) but really, I must post more on it.

is it Fabuuuulous?

Pretty fabulous. It makes London seem like a veritable gay universe. Quite educational.

How gay is it? Is it Mysteries of Pittsburgh gay or more so?

I don't know what that is, but it is very gay. It has a posh, handsome young gay aristocrat, schooled in british public schools (can't get gayer than that), who works out at a men's club filled with gays and seems to find a sexual opportunity in almost every encounter he has with another man. And it has the most explicit scenes I've ever read in a "literary" novel. I blushed.

How do you know it's a gay novel? Did you catch it on the book shelf blowing another novel???

No one likes a smart ass.

 

[Adrenaline]

Did you know that Benjamin Britten was gay!? I had no fucking idea. We never got to learn the interesting bits in music class.

 

[Sean]

Did you know that Benjamin Britten was gay!? I had no fucking idea. We never got to learn the interesting bits in music class.

So was Liberace.

 

[hogjack]

So was Liberace.

Liberace had a novel approach to playing the piano. He often dressed as Liberace.

 

[Adrenaline]

So was Liberace.

They taught you about Liberace? How...novel.

 

[glynndah]

So was Liberace.

Another illusion shattered.

 

[phrodeau]

Did you know that Benjamin Britten was gay!? I had no fucking idea. We never got to learn the interesting bits in music class.

Did you know Gian Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber were an item?

 

[Adrenaline]

Did you know Gian Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber were an item?

Ha ha. I don't do radio opera.

(Am I supposed to know about the sex lives of people who died before I was born? Unless they were famous for being gay of course.)

 

[Sean]

They taught you about Liberace? How...novel.

Didn't you know? Lesson one in any discipline, in any British school, goes something like, "First, let's laugh at Americans."
It engages pupils right from the get go.

 

[phrodeau]

Ha ha. I don't do radio opera.

(Am I supposed to know about the sex lives of people who died before I was born? Unless they were famous for being gay of course.)

Well, Menotti only passed away in February.

 

[Adrenaline]

Well, Menotti only passed away in February.

Yes, but that still doesn't explain why I should know who he had sex with.

 

[Adrenaline]

Didn't you know? Lesson one in any discipline, in any British school, goes something like, "First, let's laugh at Americans."
It engages pupils right from the get go.

I'm sure things only get more enlightening from there.

 

[KRCummings]

So was Liberace.

You lie!
He was a mans man!

 

[Sean]

I'm sure things only get more enlightening from there.

Yeah, after Liberace we move straight on to Hanson.

LOL, sorry can't keep it up.

 

[MunchinMark]

You lie!
He was a mans man!

In a way. As was Quentin Crisp.

N.B. for those who don't know. Senior boys in public (read private) schools apparently used to have younger boys work for them as unpaid unofficial servants.

It may or may not be true that buggery was/is rife, but the job of serving a senior boy was referred to as 'fagging.'

 

[Darla_Darling]

I don't know what that is, but it is very gay. It has a posh, handsome young gay aristocrat, schooled in british public schools (can't get gayer than that), who works out at a men's club filled with gays and seems to find a sexual opportunity in almost every encounter he has with another man. And it has the most explicit scenes I've ever read in a "literary" novel. I blushed.

Hot. What's it called? Who wrote it?

 

[Sean]

In a way. As was Quentin Crisp.

N.B. for those who don't know. Senior boys in public (read private) schools apparently used to have younger boys work for them as unpaid unofficial servants.

It may or may not be true that buggery was/is rife, but the job of serving a senior boy was referred to as 'fagging.'

Explaining to them, it's condescending.

Well done.

 

[Adrenaline]

Hot. What's it called? Who wrote it?

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst. He's a fan of Ronald Firbank, one of whose novels I read and, considering the style of writing, that might have actually been my first queer novel.

But seriously! I'm curious as to how this novel was received in the US review pages. We get analingus and everything. Murakami Haruki and...probably Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are the two authors who've wrote the most "explicit" sex scenes in literary novels, and only Adichie's could be said to be written erotically (and it's still pretty mild).

 

[Adrenaline]

Explaining to them, it's condescending.

Well done.

Why would that be condescending? You are so. odd.

 

[Darla_Darling]

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst. He's a fan of Ronald Firbank, one of whose novels I read and, considering the style of writing, that might have actually been my first queer novel.

But seriously! I'm curious as to how this novel was received in the US review pages. We get analingus and everything. Murakami Haruki and...probably Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are the two authors who've wrote the most "explicit" sex scenes in literary novels, and only Adichie's could be said to be written erotically (and it's still pretty mild).

There's absolutely no way I am not going to read this now. There's nothing I love more in life than English schoolboys fucking.

 

[Sean]

Why would that be condescending? You are so. odd.

That's interesting. Someone explained what I assumed to be common knowledge. I thought it was condescending. I...see it differently than you, I think.