The Economist reviews Christopher Bram's Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America:
[Bram] almost never has a good word for his subjects’ forays into non-gay themes. This seems to be driven by his conviction, stated in the epilogue, that "a gay man who writes nothing but straight stories works with his heart only half connected." … [H]e suggests that even the successes (such as Albee’s "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", a masterful hatchet-job on marriage) are not worth the trouble, which is questionable, certainly for the new, less traumatised generation of writers. Perhaps because of this stance, Mr Bram does not touch on what is surely a central question for such a book: as being gay becomes ever more normal, and a territory that straight writers explore unhindered (one of the best-known gay films of recent years was "Brokeback Mountain", from the story by the three-times married Annie Proulx), what will gay writers write about in future?
The Dish 