From James Baldwin to Sarah Waters, writers have been telling rich, nuanced LGBTQ+ tales for decades – here are some good titles to try
Keely Hawes, left, and Rachael Stirling as Kitty Butler and Nan Astley in the 2002 BBC adaptation of Tipping the Velvet.Keely Hawes, left, and Rachael Stirling as Kitty Butler and Nan Astley in the 2002 BBC adaptation of Tipping the Velvet.
inema listings seem to be stacked with films about queer relationships at the moment. From the eerie yet tender romance into the electric sapphic fling in the forthcoming Love Lies Bleeding, these new offerings feel refreshingly nuanced, placing LGBTQ+ characters centre stage without pandering to reductive narratives or heteronormative taste.
moments along the way. It’s funny, raunchy and extremely camp, but Tipping the Velvet is also a whistle-stop tour through different corners of British lesbian history, building fiction around real-life subcultures. Rotting fruit, flies and urine may not be the typical markers of a sexual awakening tale, but somehow Jenny Hval’s strange, feverish world perfectly captures the dizzying feelings associated with unspoken, and unfamiliar, sexual chemistry. After responding to a newspaper ad from another girl at her college, Jo finds herself sharing a dank warehouse flat with no walls and little privacy; tension between the two roommates swells as boundaries break down.
Despite being written in 1956 – more than half a century before most of the books on this list, when homosexuality was still criminalised – Giovanni’s Room is a story of queer desire, identity and loss that still feels pertinent. Gazing out from his bedroom window one night, the protagonist recounts his short yet fiery fling with an Italian bartender in Paris while his fiancee is out of town.
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