"In such surrender there may be gain': Oscar Wilde and the beginnings of gay fiction
"A losing game in the end": Willa Cather's "Paul's Case"
"The flesh educating the spirit": E. M. Forster's gay fictions
"The cabin and the river": Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar
"The charm of the defeated": The early fiction of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams
"The plain of truth": Mary Renault's The Charioteer
"Looking at the naked sun": James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
"The waters of the pool": Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man.