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Im rippin this fucking JUNE mag google doc yo #JUNE #JUNEmagazine

"Obviously this isn’t a comprehensive overview of gay literature outside of Japan, rather, it’s a selection of work that was relatively known and available in Japan at the time JUNE started. In the next issue a similar list of Japanese-language literature was published.

A (easy to get and read, in japanese translation circa 1978)
Jean Genet— The Thief’s Journal
Jean Genet— Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet— The Miracle of the Rose
Marquis de Sade— Justine
Marquis de Sade— The 120 Days of Sodom
Marquis de Sade— Juliette
Thomas Mann— Death in Venice
Thomas Mann— Tonio Kröger
Hermann Hesse— Beneath the Wheel
Hermann Hesse— Narcissus and Goldmund
Oscar Wilde— The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jean Cocteau— Les Enfants terribles
Henry James— The Turn of the Screw
Jean Marais— Histoires de ma vie [no english translation?!]
Ursula K. Le Guin— The Left Hand of Darkness
Jan Morris— Conundrum
James Kirkwood Jr.— Good Times/Bad Times
James Baldwin— Giovanni’s Room
James Baldwin— Another Country
Walt Whitman— Leaves of Grass
Shakespeare— Sonnets
James Leo Herlihy— Midnight Cowboy
Andre Gide— The Immoralist
Andre Gide— If It Die
Iris Murdoch— The Bell
Andre Gide— The Counterfeiters

B (More difficult or acquired tastes, go for these once you’ve read all the above)
Colin Wilson— Ritual in the Dark
Gore Vidal— Myra Breckinridge
Tennessee Williams— Memoirs
Plato— Phaedo
Colin Wilson— A Casebook of Murder
Oscar Wilde— The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Andre Gide— Corydon
Tony Duvert— Diary of an Innocent
James Purdy— Eustace Chisholm and the Works
Hubert Selby Jr.— Last Exit to Brooklyn
Margeurite Yourcenar— Memoirs of Hadrian
Petronius— Satyricon
Suetonius— The Twelve Caesars
Plato— Symposium
John Knowles— A Separate Peace
Pier Paolo Pasolini— Theorem [Only english translation seems to be rare-ish and OOP, but there is a movie]
D. H. Lawrence— The Prussian Officer
Thomas Mann— Dr. Faustus
Marquis de Sade— Philosophy in the Boudoir
Guillame Apollinaire— Les Onze Milles Verges"