And The Big Gay Read Winner Is…

… Armistead Maupin for Tales of the City. While it’s understandable that Maupin has won – the books are good and deservedly popular – part of me thinks that, for a competition seeking to find the favourite books of British gays and lesbians, it’s a pity that a British author didn’t make it into first place. Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson figure prominently, of course, and I see Alan Hollinghurst and Patrick Gale are also in the top ten, so British voices weren’t entirely drowned out by our transatlantic cousins. Personally, I would have liked to have seen the work of the late Tom Wakefield also in the list.