The new book by openly-gay Christopher Bram, “Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America” (2012), his 11th and best one, makes an enormous contribution to an appreciation of gay writers in the post-World War II period. “Eminent Outlaws” is full of history, including love stories, and anecdotes about a gay literary scene that was seminal in the emergence of gay liberation, beginning before the war, actually, and chronicling the slow, painful emergence and social acceptance of openly gay topics and story lines in their works.
