Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America / Christopher Bram.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Twelve, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 372 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780446563130 (hbk.)
  • 0446563137 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/9206640904 23
LOC classification:
  • PS153.G38 B73 2012
Contents:
Pt. 1. Into the fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood -- pt. 2. The sixties. The great homosexual theater scare ; The medium is the messsage ; Love and sex and A single man ; The whole world is watching ; Riots -- pt. 3. The seventies. Old and young ; Love song ; Annus mirabilis ; White noise -- pt. 4. The eighties. Illness and metaphor ; Dead poets society ; Tale of two or three cities ; Laughter in the dark -- pt. 5. The nineties and after. Angels ; Rising tide ; High tide -- Rewriting America.
Summary: Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-354) and index.

Pt. 1. Into the fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood -- pt. 2. The sixties. The great homosexual theater scare ; The medium is the messsage ; Love and sex and A single man ; The whole world is watching ; Riots -- pt. 3. The seventies. Old and young ; Love song ; Annus mirabilis ; White noise -- pt. 4. The eighties. Illness and metaphor ; Dead poets society ; Tale of two or three cities ; Laughter in the dark -- pt. 5. The nineties and after. Angels ; Rising tide ; High tide -- Rewriting America.

Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.

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