Queer fiction Archives - Lavender Menace https://lavendermenace.org.uk/category/queer-fiction Queer Books Archive Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:06:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Eye-3.0-32x32.png Queer fiction Archives - Lavender Menace https://lavendermenace.org.uk/category/queer-fiction 32 32 Book Review: Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler https://lavendermenace.org.uk/waiting-on-a-friend Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:06:17 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=17382 Lavender Menace volunteer Katie Marson reviews Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler, which will be published by Quercus Publishing later this year. Natalie Adler’s Waiting on a Friend is […]

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]]> Dorian the Maenad https://lavendermenace.org.uk/dorian-and-dionysus Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:10:19 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=2486 Lavender Menace volunteer, Michael, explores the queer links between The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Cult of Dionysus.

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]]> Du Maurier’s Rebecca and Queer Culture https://lavendermenace.org.uk/du-mauriers-rebecca-and-queer-culture https://lavendermenace.org.uk/du-mauriers-rebecca-and-queer-culture#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:00:01 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=347 Why has Rebecca always had a reputation as a queer novel? Generations of gay men have declaimed the first line, spoken by Joan Fontaine in the 1940 film: ‘Last night […]

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]]> https://lavendermenace.org.uk/du-mauriers-rebecca-and-queer-culture/feed 2 Rebecca by Daphine du Maurier https://lavendermenace.org.uk/rebecca-by-daphine-du-maurier https://lavendermenace.org.uk/rebecca-by-daphine-du-maurier#respond Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:59:18 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=326 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.Gollancz, 1938; Virago (present publisher). Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again… Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier’s best known novel, has never been out of […]

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