En Madrid is waving the flag of Rainbow these days of celebration for the party World pride 2017. I cannot pass up the opportunity to review some titles on LGTB theme.

I have special affection for the Gay flower, Pgarcia. It was one of my first readings on the subject because it has been in my house since I can remember and one day, when I was still very young, I took it because that flower in the gun caught my attention. But there is a bit of everything, from that biography of the great Freddie Mercury or classics like Maurice de EM Forster.

The girls with the girls

This collection of 17 stories brings together some of the best names of lesbian literature such as Arancha Apelláinz, Carmen Aranda, María Ángeles Cabré, María Castejón, Juana Cortés, Mabel Galán, Concha García, Beatriz Gimeno, Lola van Guardia, María Jesús Méndez, Libertad Morán, Lucía Nieto, Illy Nes, Inés Núñez, Cristina Peri Rossi, Carmen Rivera and Lola Vega.

Possibly one of the best compilations of erotic stories with characters that portray all the natures of women.

Anyone has a bad night

Posted in 1982, this novel by the Cadiz writer Eduardo Mendicutti tells the story of the Madelón, Andalusian transvestite, supportive, talkative, tender and emotional. Lived terrified the night of February 23, 1981, but he tells us about it with that typical Andalusian expressiveness. Moments, memories and occurrences that are mixed with the background of what is a declaration of love for freedom. And also gives voice to all those who for years had to live in the secrecy for political, cultural, economic or sexual reasons.

Carol

Patricia Highsmith gesture Carol in 1948, when he was twenty-seven and had finished his first novel, Strangers on a train. I had no money and was working for a season in the toy section of a department store. One day an elegant blonde woman came in to buy a doll, gave a name and address to have it shipped, and left. That same day Highsmith wrote the entire plot in one go.

Highsmith published it in 1952 under the pseudonym Claire Morgan and the title of The price of salt. En 2015 a film adaptation was made starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Freddie Mercury - The Definitive Biography

Signed by the journalist Leslie-ann jones, who met Mercury in 1984. This biography recounts in detail the steps of his fascinating career as a crowd idol. But also highlights and explores the most intimate aspects of your life and nothing of the most murky or thorny that splashed the character is silent. For unconditional of Mercury.

Maurice

It was written by EM Forster between 1913 and 1914, but it was published in 1971, after his death, since in life Forster feared colliding with the Puritanism that reigned in British society.

Count the difficult adolescence and youth of Maurice, a Londoner who belongs to the well-to-do bourgeoisie and who unexpectedly discovers that his feelings are not heterosexual, but are directed at individuals of his own sex. This dedicated to "better times", that is, to a future and more prone time to the acceptance of what is intended to be expressed on its pages.

En 1997 se adapted to the cinema by the director James Ivory and they starred in it Hugh Grant, Simon Callow and Rupert Everett among others.

Gay Flower, very private detective

Written by the humorist, screenwriter and Valencian Jose Garcia Martinez-Calin, better known under the pseudonym of Pgarcia, was published in 1978. It is the first title of a series consisting of thirteen other and it is a satire of the North American crime novel, particularly those of Detective Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler. The protagonist is a gay detective, Gaylor Rose "Gay R." Flower, a private investigator in Los Angeles in the 40s.

The lesbian lover

Published in 2004. This novel by Jose Luis Sampedro narrates a love story between a woman thirsty for a male without machismo and a fetish lover who enjoys submission. Sampedro addressed the issue of gender identity and search for authenticity through sexual transformation.