![]() But this was a modern gay experience, and I was hesitant to read something so much closer to home. I had seen the title, probably from Googling ‘gay novels’ on lonesome adolescent evenings. I was 17 when a friend suggested I read Holding the Man, written in 1995 by Timothy Conigrave. Like me, these men struggled to reconcile their public heterosexual image with that of their private lustful desires. Of their many meanings and stories, I could only really appreciate their portrayal of closeted gay men. While these books reflected my own angst-ridden, introspective teen years, they only seemed to offer antiquated portraits of homosexuality, as their social and political landscape had long since passed. ![]() ![]() These might include Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948) or James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956). ![]() There are many books we queers hold sacred.įor many of us they are mementos of our troubled and tormented adolescence. ![]()
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