Boys’ Love A Novel Danton Remoto

Book AuthorBoys’ Love, A NovelDanton RemotoPaperbackBuying OptionsPaperback / HardbackBoys’ Love follows the life of Jon, a Filipino gay man and his coming out of the closet in conservative and Catholic Philippines. He becomes a journalist and lives briefly in the United Kingdom and the United States, but returns home to a colourful country that is beginning to change. He forges friendships and alliances in gay Manila, meets and break ups with lovers, and lives with eyes wide open to the possibilities of hope. The novel is readable and accessible. It has a narrative line that is enriched with different prose forms like vignettes, poems, songs, speeches, reviews, feature articles, portraits of people and sketches of places. Jon shows us the “love that dares to speak its name” in this novel of hilarity and heartbreak.