General FictionGenre
General fiction is a catchall category and can also include “literary fiction” as well as “mainstream fiction” as well Books in this category contain varying degrees of LGBTQ characterization and themes.
Allison, Dorothy / Bastard out of Carolina, Cavedweller
Harris, E.Lynn/ Not A Day Goes By, Any Way The Wind Blows
Lorde, Audre/ Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Maupin, Armistead/ The Night Listener/ Tales of the City
Proulx, Annie/ The Shipping News/ Brokeback Mountain
Drag King Dreams. Leslie Feinburg. 2006. 303p. (Transgender)
Main character Max Rabinowitz is a bouncer turned bartender in this post 9/11 examination of life in New York City. Max has had a mid-life crisis and is tired of battling violent stares and attacks on the streets and subways of New York. Overwhelmed when a friend is murdered and Muslim neighbor disappears, Max re-joins the activist community to make positive changes to her life. Told in first person through dialog and description that is both honest and bleak as the desolate streets Max walks home each morning.
Michael Tolliver Lives. Armistead Maupin. 2007. 277p. (Gay/ Transgender)
The seventh of the Tales of the City is a collection of loosely connected stories that examine love in a HIV positive relationship. Thanks to the wonders of modern drugs, Michael is in a relationship with a man 21 years his junior. Other memorable characters still appear from older books in the series and update us on their lives and loves. Told in first person from a variety of gay-friendly locations in the US. A quick, quirky book that reads like a soap opera.