Seeing the recommendation posts and the book discussion posts, I'm actually wonder is there anything produced for or with gay people that's worth it? I can name 3 books of the top of my head, all science fiction, with some gay content, worth reading. The vast majority of it, pure shit. Most of it was produced for and by women who fetishize or treat gays like they do little dogs. The rest is produced by butt-squealing faggots from NYC/LA who are the very definition of plague rats.
Is there such thing as good gay content? That is to say, is there media with a gay person featured as a normal person and not some freak. I'm tired of being demonized by the left for not being a flaming whore who shits a new man's cum every 5 minutes and by the right for not being a super-repressed faggot who kills other gays to score points with some crazy deity for being born a filthy sinner homo. Just some regular person. There's got to be.
I recently read a book called Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman. One of the three principle characters is a gay Catholic priest named Matthieu (and before you ask, no, he's not a pedophile). Because he lives in 14th Century France, he has a lot of self-loathing, which has only gotten worse as the Black Death has ravaged his village and he is left wondering if it's some sort of divine punishment on him, or a result of his congregation mostly abandoning him after finding out about his homosexuality. It takes the coming of a disgraced knight traveling with a girl who claims to commune with angels to get him somewhat out of his funk.
That sound maudlin, but worth a read. Thank you.
Neither the book nor the character is a whiny angst-fest, if that's what you're worried about. Matthieu doesn't air his grievances out loud and handles his issues stoically (as do the rest of the main characters). But yes, it's a very good book and worth a read if you like historical fiction and/or dark fantasy (it's kind of both).