Anonymous: What are new gay books that are recommended?

Dennis Drabelle: Does it have to be a new gay book? Not many of these are being published anymore, mostly, I think, because the great gay storyline — coming out — isn’t such a big deal anymore and has been done to death. But here’s a classic you may not have read: Michael Campbell’s Lord Dismiss Us, set in an English boarding school. You can find used copies online, and it’s well worth doing. A masterpiece!

This is from the Washington Post ‘summer reading’ ish or something, but srsly, what a fucking asshole! Only someone who’s never ‘come out’ could say something so ignorant — i.e., ‘it’s not a big deal n e more’ — and not realize that basically every person worth knowing has at one point in his or her life ‘come out’ about something, and that as a result it’s still and always will be a (potentially) great metaphor/storyline whether it’s about sucking cock or not wanting to be a lawyer like your mom or whatever else. Hard to believe that someone like this could be a literary critic at the Washington Post. Or actually, it’s not hard at all to believe. Welcome to the new dark ages. (via Band of Thebes.)
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