“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn’t have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam in the greenwood. […] Happiness is its keynote–which byContinue reading “On Happy Endings and Gay Fiction: E.M. Forster’s [Maurice]”
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John Donovan’s [I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip] – The First YA Novel With Gay Content
During the same political and cultural climate that produced the 1969 Stonewall Riots, John Donovan’s I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip was published. Although the riots were not causal of the books publication, it is no coincidence that both events were symptomatic of the tensions and pressures faced by the newly forming gayContinue reading “John Donovan’s [I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip] – The First YA Novel With Gay Content”
Dr. Angel Daniel Matos 