Short gay stories

Paul knew that he possessed none of the characteristics of the gay male stereotype. And in all probability that was equally real of Richard. Not that he knew Richard, the dude he was about to meet, the man who had placed the same-sex attracted ad to which he had replied. Their contact to date had been limited to a single, quite compact, telephone conversation. Yet Paul felt fit already to create up a picture in his consciousness because the specify announced on the telephone had not been unfamiliar. Quite the contrary, in fact, for this stranger was a figure from the past. He had been noted for his involvement in gay liberation a decade ago, extended before Paul had started to reach to terms with his own sexuality.

The prospect of encounter such a human would be daunting to some. Paul, however, merely regarded it as an intriguing prospect. There was nothing strange in this, for, if he had been late in identifying himself as gay, his eventual acceptance had been without reservations. This made him very positive in outlook and strong in manner. The history of Richard’s achievements suggested he might well be Paul’s equal in these respects, and this was appealing to Paul who had long ago dismissed the idea

The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories

September 28, 2018
The theme brings together a most diverse collection of short stories: the authors (men, women, young, vintage, of different sexual preferences); their level of fame (E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, Isherwood versus lesser recognizable names); their approaches to story-telling (old-fashioned rounded plot, vignette, fragments, jargon-filled dialogue); their setting (the park, the castle, the field, the bedroom, the bathroom, the party, the hospital, the prison); their points of view, voices, attitudes; their narrators (the gay man, the gay friend, the straight man of the gay companion, the straight gal of the homosexual friend, the wife, the observer, the teenager, the family man); etc etc etc.

The "gay" small story can be as heartbreaking, as heartwarming, as amusing-charming-distressing-beautiful-strange, as dreamlike or lifelike as any other short story. But it is also unique. I expected nothing less.

Highly recommended. To be read as a whole—if you select and choose, part of the encounter will be lost.



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150+ Gay Short Stories to read

The Best Gay Limited Stories

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