List of literary works with homosexual content
This list of literary works with homosexual content contains novels, short stories, dramas and poems important in literary history in chronological order.
18th century
The nun , novel by Denis Diderot , France 1792
- In an episode of this work critical of Catholicism, the title character is obtrusively courted by her superior .
19th century
Kyllenion - a year in Arcadia, Roman von August, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , Germany 1805
- Shepherd's poem from ancient Greece with a happy ending, in which the story of a young man's wooing (Julanthiskos) for a brittle beauty (Alexis) stands out.
Cecil Dreem , novel by Theodore Winthrop , USA 1861
- Semi-autobiographical novel that portrayed the social mores and gender roles in the New York University milieu . Is considered work that does not openly deal with the subject of homosexuality, but prepares its open treatment.
Joseph and His Friend , novel by Bayard Taylor , USA 1870
- Novel about the intimate friendship of two men. Considered the first homosexual novel in American literature. In the end, however, he is looking for a woman.
Carmilla , novella by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu , Ireland 1872
- Novel about the love between the vampire Carmilla and the girl Laura.
Fridolin's secret marriage , novel by Adolf Wilbrandt , Austria 1875
- The first German-language novel with a homosexual happy ending and incorporation of Karl Heinrich Ulrich's theories .
Fridolin's mystical marriage, Adolf Wilbrandt & Clara Bell , USA 1884
- Translation of Fridolin's secret marriage by Clara Bell and thus the first novel in the USA with a gay happy ending.
A Marriage Below Zero , novel by Alan Dale alias Alfred J. Cohen , USA 1889
- Trivial novel that introduced the homosexual villain to American literature.
Spring Awakening , drama by Frank Wedekind , Germany 1891
- Socio-critical satirical drama in which, among other things, two students confess their love to each other.
Tim: A Story of School Life , novel by Howard O. Sturgis , Great Britain 1891
- A novel about the love between two students in a British public school, based on the author's autobiographical experiences in Eton.
Teleny , anonymously published novelattributed to Oscar Wilde , Great Britain 1893
- Love story between a British dandy and a Hungarian pianist with individual pornographic scenes
The love of lust and suffering from women to women , Emilie Knopf is accepted as the author, Germany 1895
- A novel about the love of women between Felicitas and Edita
At Saint Juda’s , drama by Henry B. Fuller , USA 1896
- One act of a man who confesses his undying love to his friend.
20th century
1900s
The confusions of the pupil Törless by Robert Musil , Austria 1906
- A novel about three boys boarding school students who sexually abuse a student who has stolen. However, he seems to be very fond of the main character. It reflects the public perception of homosexuality of that time.
Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann , Germany 1902
- A novel with a biographical touch in which a pubescent boy falls in love with a classmate.
Homosexuality in Customs and Law by Hermann Michaelis , Germany 1907
1910s
Death in Venice , novella by Thomas Mann, Germany 1912
- The story of an aging artist who falls in love with a boy.
Maurice , novel by EM Forster , Great Britain 1913/14, published 1971
- Evolutionary novel about a young homosexual.
The Rainbow , novel by DH Lawrence , Great Britain 1915
- Episode about a young woman who tries a lesbian relationship.
1920s
The Scorpion , trilogy of novels by Anna Elisabet Weirauch , Germany 1919, 1921, 1931
Canções , poems by António Botto , Portugal 1920–1922
The God of Vengeance , drama by Schalom Asch , USA 1922
- Play featuring two lesbians, which premiered on Broadway in 1922.
Girlfriends . A novel among women. Novel by Maximiliane Ackers , Paul Steegemann 1923
The Green Hat , novel by Michael Arlen , USA 1924
- A novel in which a coded gay male protagonist appears. Later dramatized by the author and filmed in 1928 as A Woman of Affairs with Greta Garbo .
The Magic Mountain , novel by Thomas Mann, Germany 1924
- Evolutionary novel about a young man rich in gay subtext .
Les enfants terribles , novel by Jean Cocteau , France 1925
- Evolutionary novel about a pair of siblings and an unhappy boyfriend.
Les Faux-Monnayeurs , novel by André Gide , France 1925
- A novel in which a love affair between the writer Édouard and Olivier, his half-sister's son, forms one of the storylines. Another homosexual figure is the Comte de Passavent, a rival of Édouard.
Der pious dance , first novel by Klaus Mann , Germany 1926
The Vortex , drama by Noël Coward , USA 1925
- Drama with veiled references to homosexuality.
The Captive , drama by Arthur Hornblow Jr. , USA 1926
- Spectacle on the piece prisonnière La of Edouard Bourdet is based and in which a lesbian relationship is represented.
Sin of Sins , drama by William Hurlbut , USA 1926
- Melodrama about an insane lesbian murderess premiered in Chicago.
The Drag , drama by Mae West , USA 1927
- Drama about homosexuality with homosexual characters. Mae West was an early gay rights advocate.
Ladies Almanack , novel by Djuna Barnes , USA / France 1928
Machinal , drama by Sophie Treadwell , USA 1928
- Moral piece in which a homosexual man appears.
Orlando , novel by Virginia Woolf , Great Britain 1928
- The story of a person who changes their gender in the course of the plot.
Strange Interlude , drama by Eugene O'Neill , USA 1928
- Play featuring a coded gay man. Pulitzer Prize 1928.
The Well of Loneliness (The Well of Loneliness), novel by Radclyffe Hall , Great Britain 1928
- Love story of two women.
The Pleasure Man , Drama by Mae West, USA 1929
- Gay dancers and women imitators appear as secondary characters.
Yesterday and today , drama by Christa Winsloe , Germany 1930
- The story of a Prussian boarding school student who falls in love with her teacher. Filmed u. a. as a girl in uniform (1931) .
1930s
Dangerous Corner , drama by JB Priestley , USA 1932
- Play about the suicide of a bisexual man.
Design for Living , drama by Noël Coward , USA 1932
- Drama in which coded bisexual characters appear.
The Green Bay Tree , drama by Mordaunt Shairp , USA 1933
- Play with coded gay characters (based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bromfield ).
The Children's Hour , drama by Lillian Hellman , USA 1934
- The story of two women who are accused of being in a lesbian relationship.
The Good , Drama by Chester Erskine , USA 1938
- Play about a gay young man who happily escapes the oppression of his family.
Oscar Wilde , Drama by Leslie and Sewell Stokes , USA 1938
- Biographical play about the homosexual Irish writer.
Whiteoaks , drama by Mazo de la Roche , USA 1938
- The story of a gay teenager who, being a rich heir, escapes his hateful family and goes to study music abroad.
Goodbye to Berlin , short stories by Christopher Isherwood , Germany / USA 1939
1940s
Secret friendships ( Les Amitiés particulières ), novel by Roger Peyrefitte (→ "is considered a pioneer of homosexual literature"), France 1943 ( filmed in 1964 )
- In a Catholic boys' boarding school, students look for amorous relationships with others (younger ones, newcomers). These show up in love letters and kisses, sexuality is only hinted at (“Georges, do you know things that one shouldn't know?”). The teachers ( fathers ) know the problem and try to prevent these things, but they also have amorous interests in the students themselves. The resulting conflicts lead to the suicide of a twelve-year-old student.
Closed society (Huis-clos), drama by Jean-Paul Sartre , France 1944 ( filmed several times )
- Philosophical chamber play with a lesbian main character.
Trio , drama by Dorothy Baker and Howard Baker , USA 1944
- Play about the breakup of a lesbian couple.
Querelle (Querelle de Brest), novel by Jean Genet , France 1947 (Fassbinder film adaptation 1982)
- The story of a criminal sailor who struggles to suppress his homosexuality.
The City and the Pillar , novel by Gore Vidal , USA 1948
- The love story of two men. Considered the first openly homosexual novel in American literature.
Confession of a Mask ( Kamen no Kokuhaku仮 面 の 告白), novel by Mishima Yukio , Japan 1949
- a young man is struggling to come out
1950s
Queer . Novel by William S. Burroughs , written 1951–1953, published USA 1985.
- Autobiographically primed novel, sequel to Junkie. Confessions of an unconverted drug addict .
Carol (The Price of Salt), novel by Patricia Highsmith , USA 1952
- Love story between two women.
Spring Fire , novel by ME Kerr , USA 1952
- Considered the first lesbian pulp magazine . Lesbian pulp novels (Lesbian pulp fiction) formed in the US in the 1950s and 1960s, an independent literary genre with a large readership.
Hemlock and After , novel by Angus Wilson , UK 1952
- The novel explores sexual moral concepts based on the experiences of a bisexual protagonist between failed marriage and homosexual affairs.
Der Immoralist (The Immoralist), drama by Ruth Goetz and August Goetz , USA 1954
- Play about the confrontation between an openly and a covertly gay man. Dramatization of the novel of the same name by André Gide .
Death in Rome , novel by Wolfgang Koeppen , D 1954
- Novel about the gay composer Siegfried Pfaffrath.
Howl , poem by Allen Ginsberg , USA 1955
- Contains references to heterosexual as well as gay sex. Howl is considered the most outstanding poem of the Beat Generation , which is also credited with having portrayed homosexuality for the first time as something that was hip .
The talented Mr. Ripley , by Patricia Highsmith , USA 1955
- Detective novel about a young American who kills his friend who doesn't reciprocate his feelings.
Giovanni 's Room, by James Baldwin , USA 1956
- Portrait of a young exile in Paris who is trying to figure out his sexual identity.
Odd Girl Out , by Ann Bannon , USA 1957
- Novel with lesbian characters
Suddenly, Last Summer (Suddenly, Last Summer), drama by Tennessee Williams , United States 1958
- The story of a young man who is cruelly killed by hustlers.
The Moon Vow , by Hazel Ai Chun Lin alias Hazel Lin, USA 1958
- Novel about a successful doctor in Beijing who loves women.
I Am a Woman , by Ann Bannon, USA 1959
- Novel with lesbian characters
Women in the Shadows , by Ann Bannon, USA 1959
- Novel with lesbian characters
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs .
- Experimental novel full of drastic, sometimes comical individual scenes about drug addiction , non- heteronormative sexual practices, state repression and much more
1960s
Journey to a Woman , by Ann Bannon , USA 1960
- Novel with lesbian characters
Beboo Brinker , by Ann Bannon , USA 1962
- Novel with lesbian characters
Report on Bruno , novel by Joseph Breitbach , D 1962
- Educational and political social novel with denunciation of homophobia as the central message
The loner (A Single Man), novel by Christopher Isherwood , United States 1964
- A day in the life of a gay professor.
The Killing of Sister George , Drama by Frank Marcus , USA 1965
- Story of two women who live together in a sado-masochistic relationship.
Two People , novel by Donald Windham , USA 1965
- A married American meets a young Roman who becomes his teacher, lover, and friend. In 2010 the novel was published in German under the title Zwei Menschen .
Another world (Another Country), by James Baldwin, United States 1966
- Portrait of the bohemian in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, with taboo subjects such as bisexuality.
A Patriot for Me , drama by John Osborne , USA 1966
- Play about an ambitious gay officer in the Austro-Hungarian army who is blackmailed as a supposed Russian spy.
Boys in the Band , Drama by Mart Crowley , USA 1968
- The story of a birthday party attended by nine gay men, filmed as Die Harte und die Zarten .
A Place for Us (Patience & Sarah), novel by Alma Routsong (published under the pseudonym Isabel Miller), USA 1969
1970s
The Wild Boys: A Book Of The Dead by William S. Burroughs , USA 1971.
- Experimental novel about a fictional homosexual youth movement that set itself the goal of overthrowing Western civilization in the dystopian last decades of the 20th century .
Ruby Red Jungle (Rubyfruit Jungle), novel by Rita Mae Brown , United States 1973
- Lesbian Bildungsroman .
The Enclave , drama by Arthur Laurents , USA 1973
- Acting about a group of friends, one of whom surprises the other by coming out .
Eternal War , anti-war novel with a military science fiction setting by Joe Haldeman , USA 1974
- In a phase of human development, homosexuality is actively promoted by those in power as a means of population reduction.
Beginning with O , volume of poetry by Olga Broumas , USA 1975
- Collection of openly lesbian poems drawn from Greek mythology. Received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1977 .
Consenting Adult , novel by Laura Z. Hobson , USA 1975
- The story of a mother trying to cope with her son's coming out. Autobiographical elements.
The kiss of the spider woman , novel by Manuel Puig , Argentina 1976
- The encounter between a homosexual and a Marxist revolutionary in an Argentine prison cell.
Lover , novel by Bertha Harris , USA 1976
- Lesbian feminist novel.
Dancers of night (Dancer From the Dance), novel by Andrew Holleran , United States 1978
- Novel from the gay scene in New York City.
Fagots , novel by Larry Kramer , USA 1978
- Controversial novel that bites criticism of promiscuity in the gay scene.
Confined spaces (Narrow Rooms), novel by James Purdy , United States 1978
- Sometimes extremely violent gay hallucination.
Captured in Babel (The Lure), novel by Felice Picano , USA 1979
- Thriller with SM motifs.
Trapeze (The Catch Trap) , novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley , USA 1979
- Coming out and romance novel in the circus milieu of the 1940s and early 1950s in the USA.
The Untouchable , novel by John Banville , Ireland 1979
- A novel about the British gay double agent Anthony Blunt .
1980s
City stories , novel cycle by Armistead Maupin , USA from 1981
- Stories from the life of a group of people in San Francisco; some of the main characters are gay or bisexual
Gay Book , encyclopedia by Martin Greif , USA 1982
- American encyclopedia on LGBT people
Annie on My Mind , novel by Nancy Garden , USA 1982
- The love story of two young girls in New York City.
The Color Purple (The Color Purple), novel by Alice Walker , United States 1982
- Epistolary novel about a young African American woman who is forced to incest and marry a violent man by her father, but who finds love only in women.
Self-Portrait of a Young Man (A Boy's Own Story), novel by Edmund White , USA 1982
- Autobiographical gay development novel. First part of a romantic tetralogy.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name , “Biomythography” by Audre Lorde , USA 1982
- The autobiography of the most famous African American lesbian poet.
Night Sweat , played by Robert Chesley , USA 1983
- One of the first full-length stage plays about AIDS .
Homosexuels et Lesbiennes illustrés , French encyclopedia by Pierre Duroc , France 1983
- French encyclopedia on LGBT people
Meeting Point Lotus Lake (孽子, Crystal Boys ), novel by Pai Hsien-yung , Republic of China (Taiwan) 1983
- About the internal and interpersonal conflicts of a gay young Chinese who lives in a culture where homosexuality is taboo.
The Normal Heart , drama by Larry Kramer , USA 1985
- Play about the AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s.
Journey to Cathleen McCoy , novel by Monika Sperr , Germany 1985
- A Munich journalist tries to interview a famous writer (with Patricia Highsmith's train ) in Ireland who is deeply involved in the country's political conflicts. The posthumously published novel is tinted autobiographical and depicts the relationships between a total of seven openly lesbian women.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit), novel by Jeanette Winterson , GB 1985
- The story of a girl who is adopted by religious zealots
M. Butterfly , drama by David Henry Hwang , USA 1988
- The story of a French diplomat who has a long affair with a Chinese opera singer masked as a woman. Filmed in 1993 with Jeremy Irons .
Mimoun , novel by Rafael Chirbes , Spain 1988
- Report on the increasing self-loss of a Spanish lecturer during his one year stay in a small Moroccan town.
1990s
An Atlas of the Difficult World , collection of poems by Adrienne Rich , USA 1988–1991
- Received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2004.
Lips Together, Teeth Apart , drama by Terrence McNally , USA 1992
- Play featuring a male character whose gay brother previously died of AIDS.
Damn strong love , youth book by Lutz van Dijk , Germany 1992
- The love story between a young Pole and a young German occupation soldier in 1941. The story is based on a true story.
Angels in America, drama by Tony Kushner , USA 1993
- 7-hour stage play featuring numerous gay and straight New York characters. Pulitzer Prize 1993.
Stone Butch Blues , novel by Leslie Feinberg , USA 1993
- Autobiographical novel by a transsexual activist.
Aimée and Jaguar , novel-like documentary fiction by Erica Fischer , Germany 1994
- Story of a love affair between two women in Germany at the time of National Socialism, made into a film in 1998 .
Make history . Stephen Fry novel, UK 1996
- Alternative world story about a world in which Adolf Hitler was never born, at the same time the coming out of the protagonist is told.
Empathy (German title: Einfühlung), novel by Sarah Schulman USA 1992
The Middle of the World , novel by Andreas Steinhöfel , Germany 1998
- Youth book about the problems of growing up, puberty, envy and jealousy, friendship and (gay) love.
Corpus Christi , drama by Terrence McNally , USA 1998
- Passion play in which Jesus and his disciples are portrayed as gay men.
Tipping the Velvet , novel by Sarah Waters , UK 1998
- Lesbian novel in the setting of the Victorian era .
21st century
1979 , novel by Christian Kracht , Germany 2001
- Two homosexual men travel through the disintegrating Persia in the late 1970s
Standard Time , Tales by Keith Ridgway , UK 2001
- German title: Normalzeit , two stories with gay themes.
In the Sea, Two Boys , Jamie O'Neill novel , UK 2001
- Coming-of-age and love story between two young men in Dublin, in the historical-political context of the Irish Easter Rising in 1916
Magnus Hirschfeld, Life and Work of a Jewish, Gay and Socialist Sexologist by Manfred Herzer , Germany 2001
The Cloud Atlas , novel by David Mitchell , United Kingdom 2004
- The novel is dedicated to an episode of a love story between two men in Cambridge in 1931, which ends with the suicide of the artistically gifted lover
Disobedience (German title: Disobedience), novel by Naomi Alderman , GB 2006
Die Mittagsfrau , novel by Julia Franck , Germany 2007
- Not only the sisters Helene and Martha develop an extremely close, almost incestuous relationship, but Martha and her friend Leontine become a couple in front of Helene's eyes. Leontine supports her lover Martha in a wide variety of situations, but she also supports Helene by giving her u. a. helps with abortion.
Call me by your name , novel by André Aciman , USA 2007
- Original title: Call Me by Your Name
- Coming-of-age and love story about a love affair between a precocious 17-year-old and a 24-year-old scientist in Italy in the 1980s
Bright Shiny Morning , novel by James Frey , USA 2008
- German title: Radiantly beautiful morning.
- One of the narrative strands is about the gay actor Amberton, who leads a fictitious marriage with a woman.
A woman can be seen , first print from the estate, novel by Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Switzerland 2008
Ali ile Ramazan , novel by Perihan Mağden , Turkey 2010
- German title: Ali and Ramazan (2011)
- Love story of two young men in today's Istanbul.
The Stranger's Child , novel by Alan Hollinghurst , UK 2011
- German title: The Stranger Child (2012)
- Gay relationship set in England in 1913, which is reflected directly or indirectly in four later periods (most recently in 2008) by also often gay people.
In One Person , novel by John Irving , USA 2012
- Original title: In One Person
- Evolutionary novel about a bisexual writer.
Just three words , novel by Becky Albertalli
- Original title: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Confusion , novel by Christoph Hein , Germany 2018
- Development novel about a homosexual German professor in the GDR .
A winter in Istanbul , novel by Angelika Overath , Germany 2018
- Love story between two men in today's Istanbul .
We are no longer in contact , story by Andreas Jungwirth , Austria 2019
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Alan Dale's A Marriage Below Zero
- ^ Penultimate scene of the third act
- ↑ Publishing house page on Tim and Howard O. Sturgis ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.lesbengeschichte.de/Pdfs/pdfs_politik_subk_deutsch/liebe_lust_dobler_d_2014.pdf
- ↑ On the book cover (?) Of the first edition from 1943, 1944 is given as the year of publication.
- ↑ Romance Novels ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Charles Kaiser: The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 , Boston, New York (Houghton Mifflin) 1997. ISBN 0-395-65781-4 , p. 100
- ↑ Larry Kramer ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Paul Knobel :
- Alessandro Bertolotti: Curiosa la bibliotheque erotique. Editions de la Martiniere, 2012, ISBN 978-2-7324-5274-6 .
- Wolf Borchers: Male Homosexuality in the Drama of the Weimar Republic . Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty in Cologne. July 2001.
- Bert Büllmann: From the ghetto to society. The American gay novel of the eighties. Swarm of men, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-921495-22-9 .
- Alexandra Busch, Dirck Linck: Women's love. Male love. A lesbian-gay literary history in portraits. Metzler, 1997, ISBN 3-476-01458-4 .
- Paul Derks : The Shame of Sacred Pederasty. Homosexuality and the public sphere in German literature 1750-1850. Verlag Rosa Winkel (now at Männerschwarm), Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-921495-58-X .
- Heinrich Detering: The Open Secret. On the literary productivity of a taboo from Winckelmann to Thomas Mann. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-89244-617-2 .
- Jeanette Howard Foster: Sex variant women in literature: A historical and quantitative survey. F. Muller, 1958; Reprint 1: Naiad P., U.S., 1985, ISBN 0-930044-65-7 ; Reprint 2: Open Letters, 1992, ISBN 1-85789-035-3 .
- Rainer Guldin: I'd rather be a boy ... On the social history of homosexuality as reflected in literature. Swarm of men, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-86149-033-3 .
- Gerhard Härle, Maria Kalveram, Wolfgang Popp: Desire for knowledge and discretion. Eroticism in biographical and autobiographical literature (3rd Siegen Colloquium on Homosexuality and Literature in October 1990). Swarm of men, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-921495-29-6 .
- Hans Dietrich [Hellbach]: The love of friends in German literature. Dissertation Leipzig 1930, publ. Leipzig 1931; Reprint with a foreword by Marita Keilson-Lauritz , Verlag Rosa Winkel (now at Männerschwarm), Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86149-035-8 .
- Marita Keilson-Lauritz : The story of one's own history (literature and literary criticism in the beginnings of the gay movement using the example of the yearbook for sexual intermediate stages and the journal Der Eigen). Swarm of men, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-86149-063-3 .
- Christian Klein : Writing in the shade. Homosexual Literature in National Socialism. Swarm of men, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-928983-91-1 .
- Alice A. Kuzniar (Ed.): Outing Goethe and His Age. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1996, ISBN 0-8047-2615-9 .
- D. Linck, W. Popp, A. Runte (eds.): Remembering and rediscovering. The taboo and removal of taboos on male and female homosexuality in science and criticism (8th Siegen Colloquium “Homosexuality and Literature”). Swarm of men, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-86149-094-4 .
- Christoph Lorey, John L. Plews (Ed.): Queering the Canon. Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture. Camden House, Drawer 1998, ISBN 1-57113-178-7 .
- Hans Mayer: Outsider. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 1975. 2007 ISBN 3-518-41902-1 (women, homosexuals and Jews).
- Wolfgang Popp: Male love. Homosexuality and literature. Metzler, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-476-00828-2 .
- Diana Reddas: Never reach out to death. AAVAA Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86254-517-9 .
- Simon Richter: The Ins and Outs of Intimacy. Gender, Epistolary Culture, and the Public Sphere. In: The German Quarterly 1, 1996, pp. 111-124.
- Axel Schock : The Library of Sodom. The book of gay books. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1997. ISBN 3-8218-0477-7 .
- Tomas Vollhaber: Nothing. The fear. The experience. Research on contemporary gay literature. Swarm of men, Hamburg, 1987, ISBN 3-921495-55-5 .
Web links
- Censorship of Gay Plays US-American plays with homosexual themes (Eng.)
- www.literatunten.de Website of the group of gay literature lovers "Literatunten" with an overview of gay classics, current gay fiction and gay literary events