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jonnyblitz

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Thu Nov-25-04 04:30 PM
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8. he wrote the first gay novel in 1948, "the city and the pillar"

it caused quite the scandal apparently.

read more...

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The City and the Pillar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The City and the Pillar is the third novel by American writer and essayist Gore Vidal. First published in 1948, it sparked a public scandal for being the first book by an American author to deal quite openly with homosexuality. Twenty years later, Vidal changed the ending to what he had originally in mind, no longer having to defer to the wishes of his publisher, in The City and the Pillar Revised.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_Pillar

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