Free (Kindle DRM-free) The Giddy Death of the Gays [LGBT Wales Literary Satire Novel]

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The Giddy Death of the Gays and the Strange Demise of the Straights by Redfern Jon Barrett (ISFDB) is his contemporary literary relationship drama comedy of manners satire novel set in a bleak industrial small town in Wales with LGBT and polyamory themes, centred around the increasingly complicated relationship shenanigans of various people of assorted orientations who become involved with each other, or not, after disaster strikes a local landmark, free courtesy of LGBT specialty publisher Lethe Press (Wikipedia).

Currently free (and DRM-free) for the next few days @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and worldwide wherever Amazon sells, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program).

Description (frankendescription with bits spliced in from the B&N paperback, which had a rather better-sounding one)
"My boyfriend told me he's in love with a man. A weird, geeky, supposedly--also--straight man. I suppose you're going to tell me that doesn't make him gay? That I should stay with him, in some weird little totally-heterosexual trio?''

Caroline and her Dom live out their normal lives amongst the poverty, alcoholics, and street preachers of Swansea. But when Dom and his straight roommate fall in love--a passionate, secret, non-sexual love--their lives are transformed into a queer chaos of cross-dressing, gender bending and free love. Will Dom hold on to his relationship? Can religious fundamentalists be adopted as pets? And just what are The Lesbians up to? The battle between preachers and drag queens, skinheads and sex workers, boyfriend and girlfriend, is set to change the city forever.

When a local pub burns down, people from all over Swansea, Wales, make the trek to watch it crumble into ashes. Among them are Caroline, her boyfriend Dom, and Dom’s new roommate Richard. Surrounded by poverty, alcoholics, street preachers, drag queens, and strong-willed friends, their lives start to shift as Dom and Richard realize that they love one another. However, Dom also loves Caroline, opening the trio up to a queer polyamorous relationship that none of them are sure is even possible. The battle over whether their relationship can last its awkward first days lies at the heart of Barrett’s The Giddy Death of the Gays and the Strange Demise of Straights.