Welcome to Adriana Books

The first thing to be said is that much of the American publishing industry is broken and I am now introducing my books to the public on the web and offering them for sale here. Secondly, these books are intensely gay books—by a gay author, about gay people involved in gay issues and written for gay people—although people who are not gay have read them and enjoyed them. I will be coming back to these subjects regularly, particularly in my blog, as I go along.

The books I am introducing are three novels about gay people in gay predicaments in the last half of the twentieth century. Some people have called them “historical novels,” but I don’t think that’s right. The serious issues facing gay people haven’t much changed since 1950—people still have to come out, and ours is still a violent culture, so whatever hostility people have toward gay people is often going to take the form of anti-gay violence, as all three of these books demonstrate. This is also a subject I’ll be coming back to later in my blog. It is also a subject that characters in these novels address again and again. In gaining more power, how much do gay people want to become like straight people, or how much do we want straight people to become like us? And what is “like us?”

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