Our editors then added our own selections. To this end, The Advocate asked the fiction nominees of the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards to nominate the best LGBTQ+ novels of all time.
Queer people face dangerous and deadly challenges - both in the United States and abroad - and it falls on writers to continue to bring these stories to light. “And in our culture at least those things are no longer the case.” With all due respect to Hollinghurst, it is still an urgent time to write (and read) about LGBTQ+ lives. “There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thing,” said the gay author, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. Recently, Alan Hollinghurst said the gay novel is dead.
