16 Best queer books like The Milkman's on His Way by David Rees

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Similar categories in E.M. Forster's Maurice book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• fiction
• lgbt
• gay
• queer

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

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• lgbt
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• queer

"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Similar categories in Taichi Yamada's Strangers book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• queer

"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Similar categories in Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• fiction
• queer

"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

Similar categories in Graeme Macrae Burnet's Case Study book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

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"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• fiction
• queer

"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

Similar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• fiction
• lgbt
• gay
• queer

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Mayflies book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• fiction

"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

Similar categories in Seán Hewitt's All Down Darkness Wide book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• gay
• queer

"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• fiction
• queer

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• queer

"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

Similar categories in Colin Walsh's Kala book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• fiction

"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• fiction
• queer

"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• fiction
• queer

Similar categories in Percival Everett's The Trees book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• fiction

"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

Similar categories in Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• fiction
• lgbt
• gay
• queer

Similar categories in Ruth Coker Burks's All The Young Men book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

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• gay
• queer

"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

Similar categories in Paul Baker's Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• lgbt
• queer

Similar categories in Christopher Castellani's Leading Men book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

• fiction
• lgbt
• gay
• queer

Similar categories in David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way book and David Rees's The Milkman's on His Way

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