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Queer books of the 1990s
Novelist and salon host Damian Barr describes the 1990s as a "bridging decade" where LGBT novels began to include characters whose stories have happy endings.
Books selected:
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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