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Originally Posted by Todd Young
Most gay fiction these days is written by women. It can work well, but often rings a little false. There's this whole idea of women fulfilling a fantasy and writing "a chick with a dick". In the last gay novel I read, a guy was in a restaurant with his boyfriend and he was jealous because the waitress was coming onto his boyfriend, which, to a gay guy, is laughable. If his boyfriend's gay, why would he care about the waitress? He'd be more likely to feel sorry for the girl, so yeah, things like that are annoying.
But the larger picture of having you imagine reading what it would be like to watch two girls fall in love (or two guys). For a gay guy, that's just about every book and movie we've ever seen - two straight people falling in love.
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The Donald Strachey books by Richard Stevenson are wonderful as are the movies, and I liked the Dave Brandstetter books by Joseph Hansen. Also Josh Lanyon and Anthony Bidulka are worth reading.
Lots of others but memory fails at the moment.
BTW you don't have to be gay to enjoy these books, they are just IMO good books
Helen