it's friday my friends and i'm just browsing through my collection of gay books...pretty covers, pretty writers; it's great to end my week with these contemporary gay authors...i'm getting awfully slow in updating my websites except for this gay one because it's the easiest to work on. it allows me to yada yada yada lots of non-sense. my other websites require lots of focus, concentration, seriousness and time which i can't afford right now, yeah (who cares?) i just wanna tell you i'm not going through the infamous ningas-kogon, i'm still dreaming the la vida loca de literatura, it's just that my  articles might get shorter and shorter from now on, because of( need i say it again? i'd say it anyway, work and night school...)but then, come to think of it, nowadays, people have short attention spans and reading a very long story is no no no. the following are contemporary gay fiction books, their descriptions are directly copied from their back covers...you're right, haven't found the time to read them all :(YET!

(from the backcover - Since 1976 Amistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed a singular trail through popular culture - from groundbraking newspaper serial to a best selling novel to a highly acclaimed television miniseries that has entranced viewers around the world. The first of six novels about denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era.)

Maybe the Moon Amistead Maupin(haven't read  yet)

 In this extraordinary collection, the most talented gay writers of our time turn their hearts and psyches inside out to show us the families who gave birth to them, raised them, exiled them, and loved them. Each of these 24 original essays describes a family that is unique and so idiosyncratic that it can belong only to its author - and so familiar and universal that it startingly reminds us of our own. John Preston begins the anthology by recalling the angry letter he left for his parents the day he moved out of their home forever, and the unsuspected impact that letter had on his younger brother...

i've read this before but i can't exactly remember it anymore:
     Toby Sligh is about to graduate from Sacred heart Catholic High School and his life is a mess. His mom has moved out of the house for no apparent reason, his dad is overwhelmed with worry and confusion at her departure, and his best friend is one of the biggest crackdealers in town. All Toby really wants is to dance with his boyfriend, Ian, at the prom and finally reveal the truth about himself. But Ian is becoming mysteriously aloof and has left Toby with the responsibility of caring for the Jesuit priest dying of AIDS, who tells him, "To hear an honest person, to hear one authentic voice...all our lives, you know, we're searching for just that."
But in Toby's world, everyone has a secret to hide, a trust to betray, and a lie to tell. Told with humor and candid honesty, Toby's Lie is a poetic coming-of-age stroy for our time.

Robert Rodi, the reigning king of gay satire, is back to tackle the reigning queen of gay archetypes - the bewitching, bewildering, bewigged drag queen. In a story that crosses the Parent Trap with Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the well-ordered life of Mitchell Sayer, a stodgy, successful gay attorney, is thrown into upheaval. His eccentric mother drops a bomb that she's managed to keep a secret ever since his birth: Mitchell has an identical twin. This long-lost, separated-at-birth sibling isn't hard to find - but he may be hard to take. For while his driver's license reads Donald Sweet, he's better known in Chicago's deimonde as Kitten Kaboodle(HAH! do you read this Divina the divine?), the gloriously gowned, stupendously stilleto-heeled star of the Tam-Tam Club's "all-girl" review...

The Violet Quill Club brought together the finest and most important gay wrtiers  to emerge in the first generation after Stonewall, writers who consciously set out to create gay literature. Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Robert Ferro, Felice Picano, George Whitmore, Michael Grumley, and Christopher Cox - these are the writers whose novels, plays , short stories, and journalism defined what it was to be gay in that golden decade or so between the Stonewall Riots and the first announcements of AIDS...

This is the story of two years in the life of B.J. Rosenthal: pre-AIDS 1980, when his only mission is to find himself a boyfriend; and 1986, when a deadly virus pervades his world and attacks his friends and ex-tricks. Combining high-wire wit with genuine emotional resonance, Eighty-Sixed explores the pressing matters of life in contemporary America: maintaining a long-term relationship with a person of suitable gender and appropriate species; staying cool in the face of bad haircuts, appaling sex, and mortal illness; and other issues like life, death, despair, therpay, sex, God, more sex, Jewish guilt, abstinence...

Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy...and he was gay. Faced with an insolvable conflict - for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong" - Bobby chose to take his own life...this is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's mother, a fearful churchgoer who first prayed that her son would be "healed", then anguished over his suicide, and ultimately transformed herself into a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth....