Listeners follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor's office where he was diagnosed a "high-risk homosexual". In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold onto pride for survival, but excessive male pride is often what we are battling, both in ourselves and in others."Ī debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez's uncle's cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at 13-years-old to become a man. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity. The abundance is magnificent."I've always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. But - you guessed it - there are so many more amazing queer books from this year I don’t mention here. Those titles bring the whole list up to 50. I only chose one book for each category, but I’ve included a few extra recommendations below the main title because I couldn’t resist. I’ve included the major genres in fiction and nonfiction, as well as a few non-genre categories, like essay collections, short story collections, and YA. They’re silly and heartbreaking and joyful, funny and serious and challenging, thought-provoking and sexy and complicated These are books that I personally have loved and that my fellow Rioters have loved. Together, these books represent the spirit of this year’s queer lit. What I’ve done instead is select 12 amazing queer books across a wide variety of genres.
So making a relatively short list of the best queer books of the year just isn’t possible. And I don’t say that lightly, because it hasn’t always been the case. Romance, fantasy, contemporary fiction, speculative fiction, mystery, memoir: I dare you to name a genre that hasn’t had at least a few incredible queer releases this year. This has been an incredible year for LGBTQ+ lit. It’s a list of 12 of the best queer books of 2022. Let me start by saying this is not a list of the best queer books of 2022.
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