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  2. List of LGBTQ characters in modern written fiction - Wikipedia

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    A Marriage Below Zero is considered to be the first English-language gay-themed novel. [5] Jack Saul The Sins of the Cities of the Plain: 1881 Anonymous Gay Jack is a male prostitute for other men, and also crossdresses; Sins is one of the earliest pieces of English-language pornography to explicitly and near-exclusively concern homosexuality. [14]

  3. The Idiot Boy - Wikipedia

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    "The Idiot Boy" is a poem written by William Wordsworth, a representative of the Romantic movement in English literature. The poem was composed in spring 1798 [ 1 ] and first published in the same year in Lyrical Ballads , a collection of poems written by Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , which is considered to be a turning point in the ...

  4. Skagboys - Wikipedia

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    While Dickson is cleared of Coke's murder, Sick Boy secretly reports Janey for benefit fraud and she goes to prison, while Sick Boy takes Maria under his control. Begbie, Tommy, and others go to Pilton and besiege the Frenchard family's home, culminating in Begbie smashing her brother Ronnie's face with an iron bar.

  5. Boys and Girls (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Boys and Girls" (1964/1968) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 which deals with the making of gender roles. [ 1 ] Synopsis

  6. Homoerotic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Homoerotic poetry is a genre of poetry implicitly dealing with same-sex romantic or sexual interaction. The male-male erotic tradition encompasses poems by major poets such as Pindar, Theognis of Megara, Anacreon, Catullus, Virgil, Martial, Abu Nuwas, Michelangelo, Walt Whitman, Federico García Lorca, W. H. Auden, Fernando Pessoa and Allen Ginsberg.

  7. Ramona (novel series) - Wikipedia

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    She called Henry "Harry Higgins" in Henry and the Clubhouse until Ramona corrected her. Ranger: Mrs. Peabody's dog. Glenwood and Cedarhurst Schools. Danny "Yard Ape": A boy who always annoys Ramona, and whom she secretly likes. Susan Kushner: Ramona's former rival, who seemed perfect and was revealed to be boring. Ramona was very tempted to ...

  8. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes we are the student. Sometimes we are the master. And sometimes we are merely the lesson – Jacalyn Smith; Spare the rod and spoil the child; Speak as you find; Speak of the devil and he shall/is sure/will appear; Speak softly and carry a big stick; Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

  9. A Suitable Boy - Wikipedia

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    A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993.With 1,349 pages (1,488 pages in paperback), the English-language book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume.