Lists

Gay Authors

Name	Web address	Description

Christopher Bram	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bram	His book "Father of Frankenstein" - a fictionalised account of the last days of James Whale - is the basis of the film "Gods and Monsters".

David B. Feinberg	http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1994/AD941974.html	His novels "Eighty-Sixed" and "Spontaneous Combustion" have an angry, fiery passion, documenting living (and dying) with AIDS. They are shot through with black, black humour. He died aged 37 and did not go gently into that good night; he is missed.

Paul Golding	http://www.spoonfedamerika.com/amerikaHOME/amerikaFOOD/books01/golding.html	Debut novel is quite extraordinary. Rich, dense, scented prose,whether the narrator is describing scenes of sexual degradation, or remembering his privileged childhood. Dialogue takes second place to the stream of consciousness of the narrator.

Andrew Holleran	http://www.glbtq.com/literature/holleran_a.html	His first novel "Dancer from the Dance" documented the frenetic scene in gay New York, pre the devastation that would be wrought by AIDS. Twenty years later, with the "Beauty of Men", he wrote a memorial to that devastation.

David Leavitt	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Leavitt	His novel "While England Sleeps" was originally banned in England, because he offended the sensibilities of Stephen Spender (it was based on a more frank rewriting of Spender's memoirs).

Armistead Maupin	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistead_Maupin	I first stumbled across Maupin reading his serial novel in the San Francisco Chronicle on my first visit to the US in 1976. I was immediately hooked, but it was 10 years before I discovered his books.

Ethan Mordden	http://www.glbtq.com/literature/mordden_e.html	One of the first modern gay writers to explore the new forms of"family" that arose post-Stonewall. His version of "Gone with the Wind" is "How Long Has This Been Going On".

Felice Picano	http://www.alyson.com/html/99_bios/1099picano_bio.html	One of the founders of the "Violet Quill" group of authors. His"Like People in History" is a gay "Gone with the Wind"...

Edmund White	http://www.glbtq.com/literature/white_e.html	Probably now the Grand Old Man of contemporary gay literature, but he probably won't thank me for saying so...