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Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Eminent Outlaws The Gay Writers Who Changed America Author:Christopher Bram In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come, and transforming the American literary landscape forever. — In EMINENT OUTLAWS, novelist Christopher Bram brilliantly chronicles the rise of gay... more » consciousness in American writing. Beginning with a first wave of major gay literary figures -- Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, and James Baldwin -- he shows how (despite criticism and occasional setbacks) these pioneers set the stage for new generations of gay writers to build on what they had begun: Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, Tony Kushner, and Edward Albee among them.
Weaving together the crosscurrents, feuds, and subversive energies that provoked these writers to greatness, EMINENT OUTLAWS is a rich and essential work. With keen insights, it takes readers through fifty years of momentous change: from a time when being a homosexual was a crime in forty-nine states and into an age of same-sex marriage and the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.« less