10 Novels Full of Queer Yearning - Electric Literature

10 Novels Full of Queer Yearning - Electric Literature

Queer yearning for me, as with countless others, is a part of my DNA. It is indistinguishable from me, my coming of age, my coming of gender, my coming of desire. It feels, in some ways, that I have never known anything but yearning. And it would be a disservice to queerness and our history to reduce it to something as simple as pining for another person. Of course, that is part of it, but queer yearning embodies so much more: a longing for conn…