Hi so I am looking for a book of really any genre about unhinged gay men. The only book I have read that was similar was Exquisite Corpse. Though maybe something a little less extreme than that.
James Robert Baker was kind of an unhinged gay man himself. He wrote Tim and Pete and, under the name James Dillinger, Adrenaline. Both about unhinged gay men, or just gay men in an unhinged world.
Glamorama and, to a somewhat lesser extent Lunar Park, are both probably close enough to what you’re looking for and both by Bret Easton Ellis.
William S. Burroughs, of course, was another unhinged gay man who wrote some unhinged gay stuff. But, depending on your temperment, it’s just as extreme as Exquisite Corpse or moreso.
If you want your unhinged gay men to have a more hinged veneer about them, you can’t go wrong with Yukio Mishima. Confessions of a Mask especially, and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea in a more subtle way.
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Frankenstein
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These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
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Most books by Jean Genet
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/r/extremehorrorlit is the sub you are looking for
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Dennis Cooper. Pick anything and dig in. The Sluts is standalone if you want to start there.
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I dunno how unhinged you need. “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer is about a gay man who embarks on an around the world trip in order to have a good excuse to avoid his ex’s wedding. Hilarity ensues. It’s unhinged but in a wholesome way.
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Picture of Dorian Gray
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I don’t believe the MC is explicitly stated to be gay due to the time period it was written, but if you like classics then “The Picture of Dorian Grey” is filllllled with homoereotic subtext.
In fact, it was used as evidence when the author, Oscar Wilde, was tried and convicted in 1895 of “gross indecency” aka being gay
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Open Throat. Except it’s a gay mountain lion
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These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
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Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
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The Caricature of Love by Hervey Cleckley, MD, is a serious, serious eye-opener on gay men. And it’s non-fiction.
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‘Hawk Mountain’ by Conner Habib
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A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James.
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Bath Haus by PJ Vernon
Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
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James Robert Baker was kind of an unhinged gay man himself. He wrote Tim and Pete and, under the name James Dillinger, Adrenaline. Both about unhinged gay men, or just gay men in an unhinged world.
Glamorama and, to a somewhat lesser extent Lunar Park, are both probably close enough to what you’re looking for and both by Bret Easton Ellis.
William S. Burroughs, of course, was another unhinged gay man who wrote some unhinged gay stuff. But, depending on your temperment, it’s just as extreme as Exquisite Corpse or moreso.
If you want your unhinged gay men to have a more hinged veneer about them, you can’t go wrong with Yukio Mishima. Confessions of a Mask especially, and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea in a more subtle way.
Frankenstein
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
Most books by Jean Genet
/r/extremehorrorlit is the sub you are looking for
Dennis Cooper. Pick anything and dig in. The Sluts is standalone if you want to start there.
I dunno how unhinged you need. “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer is about a gay man who embarks on an around the world trip in order to have a good excuse to avoid his ex’s wedding. Hilarity ensues. It’s unhinged but in a wholesome way.
Picture of Dorian Gray
I don’t believe the MC is explicitly stated to be gay due to the time period it was written, but if you like classics then “The Picture of Dorian Grey” is filllllled with homoereotic subtext.
In fact, it was used as evidence when the author, Oscar Wilde, was tried and convicted in 1895 of “gross indecency” aka being gay
Open Throat. Except it’s a gay mountain lion
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
The Caricature of Love by Hervey Cleckley, MD, is a serious, serious eye-opener on gay men. And it’s non-fiction.
‘Hawk Mountain’ by Conner Habib
A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James.
Bath Haus by PJ Vernon
Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
*Frisk* by Dennis Cooper.