Tacky Dress
Dale Peck, 22 February 1996
Like People in History: A Gay American Epic
by Felice Picano.
Viking, 512 pp., $23.95, July 1995,0 670 86047 6 Show More
by Felice Picano.
Viking, 512 pp., $23.95, July 1995,
How Long Has This Been Going On?
by Ethan Mordden.
Villard, 590 pp., $25, April 1995,0 679 41529 7 Show More
by Ethan Mordden.
Villard, 590 pp., $25, April 1995,
Flesh and Blood
by Michael Cunningham.
Hamish Hamilton, 480 pp., £14.99, June 1995,9780241135150 Show More
by Michael Cunningham.
Hamish Hamilton, 480 pp., £14.99, June 1995,
“... Death in Venice to Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar to the work of Genet and Isherwood and Baldwin and Burroughs, but as each new novel or play or poem appeared it was treated as a one-off; if the work was a critical success it was despite its homosexual content, if the work failed it was because of it. But by the Seventies gay men in the United States ... ”