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The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies)
The Violet Hour The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture - Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies Author:David Bergman The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill -- Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, and George Whitmore -- collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing during and after the gay liberation movement. This social history shows how the works of the... more »se authors both reflected and criticized the values, principles, and prejudices of the culture of gay liberation. In spinning many of the most important stories gay men told of themselves in the short period between the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s, the Violet Quill exerted an enormous influence on gay culture.« less