Dicionário de Literatura Gay: 7.ª edição (2022)

Summary:

“Do you like LGBTQ+ literature but don’t know what to read next? Are you looking for a children’s or young adult book about sexual orientation or gender identity to give to your child? Heard about a certain novel and want to find out more before you buy it? Do you want to get to know an author you really like? Do you like history and want to know when Portugal’s first queer novel was written? Are you researching LGBTQ+ issues and want to gather relevant bibliography? You can find answers to these and many other questions in the pages of the 7th edition of the Dicionário de Literatura Gay de Portugal, an unprecedented and indispensable reference work, the first complete edition, from ‘A’ to ‘Z’, which has 1016 main entries, as well as countless thematic entries and what will perhaps be the first systematic proposal for a chronology of LGBTQ+ literature in Portugal. In this dictionary, we aim to include all LGBTQ+ representations in Portuguese literature, encompassing not only what Eduardo Pitta calls homosexual literature and gay literature, but also queer literature, as well as all the historical literary references associated with issues of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, what we together call here gay literature or LGBTQ+ literature. This is the first complete edition of the Dictionary of Gay Literature, which for the first time includes all the entries, from ‘A’ to ‘Z’. The entries are organised alphabetically and are dedicated to books, magazines, authors, themes, characters, bookshops, publishers, literary prizes or other references to LGBTQ+ literature in Portugal.”