The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture. By DAVID BERGMAN. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. 288. $62.50 (cloth); Pp. 368. $24.50 (paper).

The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill--Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, and George Whitmore--were among the most important writers to emerge from the gay liberation movement. David Bergman's new book, The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture, is a perceptive and heartfelt study of this ...

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