Danton Remoto

Riverrun is a rite-of-passage novel in the life of a young gay man growing up in a colourful and chaotic dictatorship. Riverrun tells the story of a young gay man navigating his way through life in a vibrant, yet tumultuous, dictatorship. Presented as a memoir, the novel smoothly transitions from childhood to young adulthood, moving from a provincial barrio to...

Award-winning stories and tales about the rites of passage in our lives—love and loss, gladness and grief, departure and return—written in the realistic and fabulist modes. The Heart of Summer is a collection of short fiction on love, longing, and loss written in both the realist and fantastic modes. A young boy and his sisters gather beautiful shells on the...

Boys' Love, A Novel explores the adventures of Jon, a Filipino gay man navigating his coming out in the conservative and Catholic culture of the Philippines. As he becomes a journalist, Jon briefly resides in the United Kingdom and the United States, before returning to his vibrant homeland, which is on the cusp of change. In this journey, Jon builds...