Query: 1982 American LGBT related novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Annie on My Mind
A Boy's Own Story
The Color Purple
Further Tales of the City (novel)
Evidence from documents: Annie on My Mind: a 1982 novel by Nancy Garden about the romantic relationship between two 17-year-old New York City girls, Annie and Liza.
A Boy's Own Story: a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White.
''A Boy’s Own Story'' is the first of a trilogy of novels, describing a boy's coming of age and documenting a young man's experience of homosexuality in the 1950s in Cincinnati, Chicago and Michigan.
The Color Purple: '''''The Color Purple''''' is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker
Further Tales of the City (novel): '''''Further Tales of the City''''' (1982) is the third book in the ''Tales of the City'' series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. It was adapted into the 2001 miniseries ''Further Tales of the City''.


This novel takes place in 1981 during the first year of the Reagan Administration and imagines that the real-life figure of Jim Jones survives the Jonestown massacre. The book also captures the tail end of the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS era of decadence in the gay culture of the early 1980s as the Michael Tolliver character explores his promiscuous side after breaking up with Jon Fielding.