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"Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America" by Christopher Bram

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published February 25, 2013 at 10:10 AM EST
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    In his book, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

, novelist Christopher Bram chronicles the rise of gay 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 they set the stage for new generations of gay writers to build on what they had begun.

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