Competition to reveal Britain's favourite gay novel

Billed as a follow up to the BBC's big read, which aims to 'cross the sexuality divide' ,The Gig Gay Read is a bid to find 'Britain's favourite gay book'
Many of the books such as 'Oranges are not the only Fruit' are already classics, and I would have thought they had already crossed any divide, sexual or otherwise.
Other less known books such as Colm Tobin's The Story of the Night certainly deserve more notice. But does labelling books as 'gay' or 'straight' really do any thing for our apreciation of them?
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Guardian Unlimited Books :Competition to reveal Britain's favourite gay novel