LGBT books: 7 powerful queer love stories that moved Naoise Dolan
Author Naoise Dolan chooses seven of her favourite queer novels from recent year and past centuries. I was going to call this piece “the best queer love stories”, but isn’t that exclusivity, that hierarchy, the whole problem with ‘representation’? When art is presented as zero-sum, we tear everything to pieces that doesn’t speak to us personally. In reality, the more queer stories there are, the less burden there is on any book to represent all of us, which would be boring even if it were possible. If I wanted to see myself a million times I’d go to a funhouse. So I won’t pret...