But what of the living legends who walk among us, or the legends-in-the-making we’re keen to lift up? Give them their due respect, of course they have paved the literary road for so many of us queer writers working today. That is to say, such lists regularly name the late giants, the great and gone. Forster, Audre Lorde, Christopher Isherwood. Whenever I see a list of “best” LGBTQ books, I always find the usual suspects: James Baldwin, Patricia Highsmith, E.
