6 romantic books LGBTQ + placed in small cities

The only queer bookstore in the city of Hay-on-Wye is a lifeline for many of its visitors, which is why it is so tearing when it is threatened to have to close. But its owner Quinn Oxford is not going to let him go without fighting, ready to do everything it takes to save the hope of his little town for queer people. Everything goes as planned until the author of Romance Noah Sage appears in Hay-on-Wye, and that’s just the kind of distraction that Quinn does not need for the moment. In addition to that, Noah has a story with the city he prefers to forget. But when a snowstorm leaves these two inhabitants of the small town stuck with each other, Noah must decide if it is ready to let go of the past, and Quinn must decide if the universe will let him have a vacation romance and save his beloved bookstore at the same time.

In the small town of Barton Springs, Ohio, Jake finally has the impression of embarking on his as first gay gay of his school. Even if everyone in town is not as accepting, his family and friends welcomed her with open arms. But when Jake’s father decides to suspend an extremely important flag of pride in their courtyard before to try to show his love and support, the mayor of Barton Springs begins to receive complaints from some of his narrowest residents. Some of them even fear that the display of a large flag of pride in the lawn of a family leads to the unthinkable: a parade of pride in Barton Springs. But for someone like Jake, it seems less a bad idea and bigger. To do this, he will have to obtain the support of the mayor and the municipal council, that he already knows that it is not on his side. To worsen things, the son of the Brett mayor is starting to spend a lot of time with Jake. Can he succeed in overthrowing local policy and finding love at the same time?

Maya Davis lives her dream life in her own apartment with her own career, and everything collapses quickly when the unthinkable occurs. Forced to pack your life and return with her parents to her little hometown of Maryland, all Maya wants to do is start to discover her next move. The last thing she wants is to put the roots in the city she left. But just as Maya is forced to go home, her best friend Ant was moving for the first time – he does not seem to seem to separate from her. Realizing that she must start thinking realistically, everything Maya wants to do is find a job with health insurance. It was at this point that she meets Emme vivant, an influencer who thinks that Maya has great potential. Now she has new clothes, new contacts and new opportunities. But is it life that she is really supposed to live? And will he manage to move on and find her own life without Maya?

In this seminal novel by Gay Romance which won the Stonewall Book Award for literature in 1996, finding you in your little hometown is an act of challenge. For someone with secrets, finding your first love is not easy. For Nathan, who lives in a violent house with an alcoholic father, it could be one of the only things to save him from a landscape of fanaticism and intolerance. In his small rural town in the south, Nathan must hide and that he loves everyone who he is close, including his family, friends and church. But as secrets always have a way to go back to the surface, Nathan may not be able to keep his love secret for him forever.

The future maturity of Ijeoma was unfortunately marked in the context of the Revolution in Nigeria. She is 11 years old when a civil war broke out in the Republic, and she was sent back to live in security in a small region of the country. It is there that Ijeoma meets another child who has been moved and their link becomes unbreakable, transcending time, space and love. They are also both girls, which is not a safe union to have at a time of civil war in Nigeria. When Ijeoma’s secret love is discovered, she is forced to live a closed life, which she always learns at a price. In a country torn apart by political war, Chinelo Okparanta Under the trees udala Ask if a romance between two girls can survive its own version of small town prejudices.

Eli Ward has been set for the last time in his little hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida for the last time. Since the transition and sober, staying away from the person he was was vital for his survival. But when his lucrative career on television as a writer and actor is threatened by the scandal, Eli is forced to go home to New Port Stephen for the holidays. He just hopes that he will be able to spend at Christmas in one piece with his well -intentioned, although poorly oriented family. Just when things can’t get worse, Eli meets Nick Wu, her ex from high school. Divorced and warmer than ever, Nick also tries to keep his head out of the water by taking care of his daughter and his father. But even he cannot deny the spark there when he came across Eli. Will these two lost souls repair the fences at Christmas in Florida?