Query: Books about Los Angeles, California and American LGBT
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Myron (novel)
Imperial Bedrooms
Half-Life (Krach novel)
City of Night
Dangerous Angels
What We Do Is Secret (novel)
Southland (novel)
Adrenaline (novel)
Weetzie Bat
Evidence from documents: Myron (novel): Myra Breckinridge, the transsexual who terrorized Hollywood with dildo-rape and lesbianism, has transformed back into her former self, the literally and figuratively castrated Myron.
Imperial Bedrooms: after he returns to Los Angeles to cast his new film.
Half-Life (Krach novel): '''''Half-Life''''' is a debut novel by Aaron Krach. Published in 2004 by Alyson Books, the novel was nominated for a Violet Quill Award and was among the 2004 Lambda Literary Award finalists. It discusses young love, coping with death and the issues facing gay youth.
Two weeks before high school graduation and the geography of 18-year-old Adam Westman's life is about to change dramatically. Many of the familiar landmarks will remain—his best friend Dart riding shotgun; the suburban house where he lives with his dad and younger sister; and the numerous on-ramps and off-ramps that connect him to his hometown of Angelito in the center of centerless Los Angeles. But when death and love, perhaps, arrive unexpectedly, Adam must learn that trouble sometimes has to rumble through a tidy world to make room for the kind of magical connections that make life worth living.
City of Night: '''''City of Night''''' is a novel written by John Rechy. It was originally published in 1963 in New York by Grove Press. Earlier excerpts had appeared in ''Evergreen Review'', ''Big Table'', ''Nugget'', and ''The London Magazine''.


''City of Night'' is notable for its exposé approach to and stark depiction of hustling, as well as its stream of consciousness narrative style.
A young man (Rechy uses the term “youngman” when referring to hustlers) travels across the country while working as a hustler. The book focuses chapters on locations that the youth visits and certain personages he meets there, from New York City, to Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Orleans. Throughout the novel, the unnamed narrator has trysts with various peculiar characters, including another hustler, an older man, an S&M enthusiast and a bed-ridden old man. All of these relationships range in the extent of their emotional and sexual nature, as well as in their peculiarity.
Dangerous Angels: '''''Dangerous Angels''''', also known as the Weetzie Bat series, is a young adult fiction series by Francesca Lia Block. The book consists of seven novels: ''Weetzie Bat'', ''Witch Baby'', ''Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys'', ''Missing Angel Juan'', ''Baby Be-Bop'', ''Necklace of Kisses'', and ''Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat''. The books describe the lives of main character, Weetzie Bat, and her friends and family members who all live in Los Angeles. The books include supernatural elements such as witches, genies, and ghosts and can be described as magical realism or mythpunk.
What We Do Is Secret (novel): ''What We Do Is Secret'' takes place in Los Angeles in 1981, six months after the death of Darby Crash (lead singer of the Germs). It is narrated by a gay street kid named Rockets Redglare, who knew Darby personally.
Southland (novel): ''''Southland''''' is a ''Los Angeles Times'' best-selling novel and "Best book of 2003" by Nina Revoyr.
Adrenaline (novel): A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California, and the book is about two "lusty" gay lovers from Los Angeles named Nick and Jeff who at the beginning of the novel were having passionate sex when two "wildly homophobic cops" break in on them.
Weetzie Bat: Books about Los Angeles, California and American: The story is set in an almost dream-like, heightened version of Los Angeles, aptly referred to as "Shangri-L.A.", in an indefinite time period evoking both the 1980s punk craze and the sophisticated glamor of 1950s Hollywood.
LGBT: Critics have countered by arguing that books like ''Weetzie Bat'' can provide a vital resource for lesbian, gay, transgender, and HIV-positive teens growing up in what is still largely a homophobic society.