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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
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Patricia Highsmith originally published her 1952 work under the pseudonym ‘Claire Morgan’, using an alias as she didn’t wish to be branded a “lesbian-book writer”. Carol depicts the relationship of the eponymous heroine Therese Belivet, a young woman living in Manhattan. "She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?" The Price of Salt (aka Carol) by Patricia Highsmith (1952) This list certainly doesn’t seek to provide a detailed account of the queer canon, but rather to give you a starting point, or an ‘I need to read that again’ moment, or simply to remind you that there are lots of other folk in this world, folk who felt the same strange kick in the gut when they read Giovanni’s Room, or Genet, or Hollinghurst for the first time, or who recognised the oddly liberating sorrow of Jeanette Winterson’s coming out gone wrong in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, or enjoyed the comforting company of community in the inhabitants of Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco. To nab a phrase from Allen Ginsberg, we’re "putting queer shoulder to the wheel", and we’d very much like for you, wherever you are in your journey, to join us. They are about being utterly and uniquely yourself. Others were written when being LGBTQ+ was finally something you could safely celebrate. Some were written at times when being LGBTQ+ was something too dangerous to admit to. They are different, often groundbreaking. They are also books that celebrate otherness and queerness. These are books that make you feel strange in the pit of your stomach books that make you feel a part of something books that make you feel like you belong to something bigger.