What exactly is gay literature? Mileage could be an inventory of writers who have addressed the issue explicitly gay novels, poems and essays published over time. Sappho, Oscar Wilde, Federico García Lorca and Salvador Novo are some of the most famous but never, to my knowledge, claimed a personal space that was not the literary.
Until recently, he had to overcome many difficulties before finding texts that talk about it. Now specialist bookshops have been responsible for placing a gay corner within their shelves. However, the only thing that reveals this is the unbridled desire we have for the classifications, although they have some benefit in the management of the world, moreover seriously distort reality and simplified in the extreme.
When Marguerite Yourcenar wrote "Alexis or the treaty to combat useless, for example, spoke clearly a major problem: the authenticity of the homosexual. Did he at some point that it was homosexual literature? Of course not. Just wrote literature. Marguerite wrote and he did splendidly pure literary vocation. If she spoke of this condition was because he intimately touched and willed it so.
was addressed to all and not a particular ghetto. He had only to do nothing more. In this sense, oddly enough the issue will always be secondary.
When we talk about literature, talk about obsessive and passionate stories fictional character whose mirror feeds broken a reality marked by injustice, abuses, inequality and widespread discrimination. Because even that which is monstrous In view of the "good conscience" should be in
