A PLACE ON THE SHELf

摘要

If we read to discover new worlds, we also read to find ourselves. For gays and lesbians, this act of discovery can be problematic: literature has so often excluded them. In the last decades, as gays and lesbians have grown increasingly vocal in the effort to secure their rightful place in society, a broad range of fiction has emerged that effectively captures their concerns. Whether gay or straight, readers interested in the gay/lesbian experience now have a wealth of books from which to choose. [For nonfiction, see Neal Wyatt's Reader's Shelf column "Coming Out in Print: Gay and Lesbian Memoirs," on p. 116.—Ed.].