The powerful influence on American culture by prominent post-World War II gay authors, as documented in Christopher Bram’s new book, “Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America” (2012), raises the question of just how they contributed to the explosion of the modern gay liberation movement, when countless people burst out of their closets more forcefully and openly than any of those authors had, at least up to that point in the late 1960s.
