Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture
by Annie Proulx
from Scribner
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece.
Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.
Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.
The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.
Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men
by Peter Cashorali
from HarperOne
Boys In Shorts
by Chris Kent
from GLB Publishers
Fresh from success with his best-selling novel, "The Boys of Swithins Hall," Chris Kent brings short stories about English school boys to readers who desire more schoolboy tales. These stories concentrate on the holidays and home lives of the school boys he knows and loves so well. When boys get together in the movie theaters, the swimming pools, the vacatons spots, well, boys will be boys in all their randy, wild glory.
The Waterfront Journals
by Daivd Wojnarowicz
from Grove Press
Best Gay Love Stories: Summer Flings (Best Gay Love Stories)
from Alyson Books
Everyone loves to fall in love, and there's no better time than summer. From beachfront bunking to cruising the ocean's waves, this year's edition of gay love stories explores the electric connection between men and men and the sultry sun that melts their hearts.
Brad Nichols also edited Best Gay Love Stories: New York City and the Travelrotica series.
Between Men: Best New Gay Fiction
from Running Press
Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction
from Running Press
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories
by Various
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Best Gay Love Stories: New York City
from Alyson Books
New York City is the world's capital, and every day people fall in love on its streets and in its restaurants, its high rises and even its subways. No matter the season, no matter the borough, there's no better place to find love.
Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling
from White Crane Books
Storytelling can be a way of spinning straw into gold, of showing ourselves we have drawn a long straw in this life. Charmed Lives offers readers a collection of over thirty short works of fiction and personal essays as an alternative to the stories that society often tells about gay men. Some are whimsical with a touch of enchantment, some profoundly spiritual, others romantic--all offer insight into modern gay life that will inspire and shed light on the grace of being gay with tales of hope against adversity and love over loneliness.
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