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Tales tops gay book list
Tales of the City is top gay book
Armistead Maupinââ¬â¢s Tales of the City is the best gay book of all time
In a recent search for the fifty best gay books, readers of gay entertainment website AfterElton voted the book into top position by a large margin.
The book first ran as a serial in the San Francisco Chronicle before appearing in book form in 1978.
A funny and affectionate account of life and love in gay (and straight) San Francisco, it was quickly followed by six other books in the same series, and was also made into a TV mini series starring Olympia Dukakis.
Runner-up was Maurice, E.M Forster’s tale of gay love in the early twentieth century. Maurice was written in 1913, but because of its subject matter was only published in 1971 after Forster’s death.
Also appearing in the top ten were Patricia Nell Warren’s novel The Front Runner, about a gay Olympic athlete, and Booker Prize winner The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.
The full list of all fifty titles can be found at AfterElton.com
