TY - BOOK ID - 90762604 TI - The violet hour : the Violet Quill and the making of gay culture PY - 2004 SN - 0231130503 0231130511 0231503830 PB - New York : Columbia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Gay men in literature. KW - Gay men KW - Gay men's writings, American KW - Homosexuality and literature KW - Violet Quill (Group of writers). KW - History and criticism KW - Intellectual life KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Violet Quill (Group of writers) KW - Gays, Male KW - Homosexuals, Male KW - Male gays KW - Male homosexuals KW - Urnings KW - Gays KW - Men KW - Intellectual life. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:90762604 AB - The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill-Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Michael Grumley, Robert Ferro, and George Whitmore-collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing during and after the gay liberation movement. David Bergman's social history shows how the works of these authors reflected, advanced, 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 1980's, the Violet Quill exerted an enormous influence on gay culture. The death toll of the AIDS epidemic, including four of the Violet Quill's seven members, has made putting such recent events into a historical context all the more important and difficult. The work of the Violet Quill expresses the joy, suffering, grief, hope, activism, and caregiving of their generation. The Violet Hour meets the urgent need for a history of the men who bore witness not only to the birth but also to the decimation of a culture. ER -