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Below is fashion designer turned novelistDouglas Stuarts list.
But if I did survive long enough, then I think what I would miss most would be love.
It might even prove useful; Ive cried at all of these books.
The rescue party could follow the sound of my sobbing.
This is my favourite of Toibins works.
Set in the early eighties, Argentina is controlled by oil-rich Americans and power-hungry Generals.
A young English professor has been living in the shadow of his mother and hiding his sexual desires.
The loss and grief in the third act left me reeling for days.
I love Grecian sandals, and I love to find queer representation in historical fiction.
Renaults eye for intimacy is amazing and its really moving to see the warrior through his lovers adoring gaze.
Youll be left wishing that someone worshipped you like that.
Beckwith is enormously privileged and totally unapologetic about his sexual promiscuity.
Its a glimpse of queer London before the scourge of AIDS.
Set in Maine, Fee is part of a group of boys who are abused by their choir leader.
Ive read this seven or eight times.
Its a fleshy, brutal epic that reads like a Gericault painting.
This is my pure pleasure read.
Its sort of like myWuthering Heightsin that it really rips my bodice.
This is about self-love!
As a boy, Quentin Crisps flamboyant, lavender coif terrified me.
Whenever he appeared on television, it made me hide away inside myself.
What extraordinary courage to be gender nonconforming in 1930s Britain, in the face of such mockery and loathing.
This is a wonderfully wry book, and it is so quotable.
Read it for the encounter with the Australian soldier.
Enough has been said about this book by better writers than me.
This is Baldwins tale of desire and the failure of that desire, set in 1950s Paris.
The abandonment at the end is heart-breaking.
Lingering in my mind is the beautiful quote: If you cannot love me, I will die.
Before you came, I wanted to die, I have told you many times.
It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.
Its a shining, haunting story of two women who dare to fall in love.
Philip is trying to find the courage to come out to his parents.
Philips father is also hiding his own homosexuality, while he spends his weekends frequenting gay-porn cinemas.
This is about the secrets we keep from the ones we love the most.
A real British classic.
Jeanette is being raised into the missionary life, but she starts to develop sexual attraction towards other women.
After the church finds out, they give a shot to exorcise the demons from her.
Like they performa real-life exorcismfor the gayness.
It made me glad that the only homophobia I faced growing up was just a swift kicking.
