西方同性文学20部经典

在美国，关于允许不允许同性恋伴侣通过合法手续结婚的斗争进行的如火如荼。大法官先是否定了一些州已经开禁的做法，然后，有大量反对的声音和倡导，又有了转折，现在又在等待新的法官判决。同性婚姻获得通过的希望日渐增加。

在这样的大氛围下， 洛杉矶时报的一篇文字梳理出20本同性文学的经典著作，颇有些理直气壮的味道。

20 classic works of gay literature: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/08/20-classic-works-of-gay-literature.html

"Giovanni’s Room" by James Baldwin -- a man discovers his sexual identity in Paris

"Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes -- early postmodern fiction of women in Paris in love

"Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" by Alison Bechdel -- a graphic novel memoir of her troubled gay father and her own coming out

"Rubyfruit Jungle" by Rita Mae Brown -- the 1973 tale of a young woman’s coming of age

"Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs -- the focus of a breakthrough obscenity trial, a landmark experimental novel

"Oscar Wilde" by Richard Elmann -- bio of the lively writer whose gay relationship got him sent to prison for “gross indecency”

"Maurice" by E.M. Forster -- a love story written when homosexuality was illegal in England; published posthumously

"The Well of Loneliness" by Radclyffe Hall -- groundbreaking lesbian novel of the 1920s

"Invisible Life" by E. Lynn Harris -- an African American law student's sexual discovery

"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg -- the poem was subject to an obscenity trial in part because of its explicit gay themes

"Our Lady of the Flowers" by Jean Genet -- published in 1944, sexual adventures in Paris' criminal underground

"American Studies" by Mark Marlis -- an aging man looks back; won the LA Times book prize for first fiction

"Tales of the City" by Armistead Maupin -- in San Francisco, the stories about Michael Tolliver continued in five sequels

"Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir" by Paul Monette. A breathtaking yet matter-of-fact, day by day account of the death of his longtime partner from AIDS.

"Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx -- a story of cowboys in love, from the collection "Close Range"

"City of Night" by John Rechy -- a novel of gay street hustlers in the 1950s 

"The Complete Poems" by Sappho -- a woman's love poetry from the seventh century BC

"The Queen Is Dead" by Hubert Selby Jr. -- a story of a transvestite's death, from the collection "Last Exit to Brooklyn"

"The Master" by Colm Toibin -- an imagining of the life of Henry James

"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" by Jeanette Winterson -- a young woman’s sexual awakening that won the Whitbread Prize for first fiction

-- Carolyn Kellogg, Nick Owchar and David L. Ulin

当经典文学清单被列出来，一个文化的位置也日益稳定。刚看到的South Park里，连Stan的狗都具有同性性取向，并且不是镇上唯一的取向不同的动物。美国的同性文化已经开始从非主流向主流挺进。