Will a setback with his horse make him second guess his goals? And can he open up enough to let Xan into his life?

https://books2read.com/SecondJoy2

#Equestrian #Transgender #QueerLit

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im finally reading EM Forster's groundbreaking gay classic "Maurice" and while the English class politics are beyond me, the idea of being so disconnected from your body you take a long, long time to figure out your sexuality is familiar to me and poignant to read #pride #queerlit

โ€œI want my writing to be this oasis, this thing thatโ€™s just for meโ€

Douglas Stuart talks about his new novel, JOHN OF JOHN. He discusses the bookโ€™s origins, the communities & landscapes that shape his characters, & why he continues to write about the kind of people mainstream British fiction so often overlooks

@bookstodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOP12bOLRow

#Scottish #literature #novel #LGBTQ #QueerLit #QueerWriters

Observer Book Club with Douglas Stuart

YouTube

Power From Things Not Declared

Poet, novelist & translator Christopher Whyte in conversation with Michael Shaw, reflecting on queerness, Glasgow & poetry with Edwin Morgan as a central figure

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https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/10/26/power-from-things-not-declared/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Glasgow #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Queer #QueerLit #QueerWriters #EdwinMorgan

POWER FROM THINGS NOT DECLARED

Our October #HoldHandsAmongTheAtoms video release is a conversation between Christopher Whyte, poet, novelist and translator and Michael Shaw,  Lecturer in Scottish Literature, University of Sโ€ฆ

There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
of the open french windowโ€ฆ

โ€”Edwin Morgan, โ€œStrawberriesโ€๐Ÿ“
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

A poem for Pride Month ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #lovepoem #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #QueerLit

Will a setback with his horse make him second guess his goals? And can he open up enough to let Xan into his life?

https://books2read.com/SecondJoy2

#Equestrian #Transgender #QueerLit

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Douglas Stuart in conversation with Kevin MacNeil
29 May, An Lanntair, Stornoway โ€“ ยฃ12/ยฃ10

โ€œJOHN OF JOHN is Douglas Stuartโ€™s finest novel yetโ€ฆ he infuses his narrative with an authentic understanding of the essence of Hebridean identityโ€ฆ a contemporary masterpieceโ€

https://lanntair.com/events/event/douglas-stuart-john-of-john-book-tour/

#Scottish #literature #novel #DouglasStuart #LGBT #QueerLit #Hebrides

Will a setback with his horse make him second guess his goals? And can he open up enough to let Xan into his life?

https://books2read.com/SecondJoy2

#Equestrian #Transgender #QueerLit

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Will a setback with his horse make him second guess his goals? And can he open up enough to let Xan into his life?

https://books2read.com/SecondJoy2

#Equestrian #Transgender #QueerLit

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Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons, fled in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, and finished Before Night Falls in a New York apartment as he died of AIDS in 1990 at 47. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its most ambitious theatrical engagement in Angels in America (1991). Jewelle Gomez wrote The Gilda Stories (1991) โ€” Black lesbian vampires who refused to be killed politely, because survival in this country has always required speaking the violence aloud before the violence wrote the obituary. The thread is the same: people too small to be expected to matter, who insisted on mattering anyway.
Read: https://twp.ai/4hrVd4
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily #QueerWriters #BookCommunity