Context: Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term was originally used to mean "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy"., The Violet Quill (or the Violet Quill Club) was a group of seven gay male writers that met in 1980 and 1981 in New York City to read from their writings to each other and to critique them. This group and the writers epitomize the years between the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the AIDS pandemic., Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber ( born 1944 ) , a novelist , essayist , and short story writer . He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature . He was a member of The Violet Quill , a gay writer 's group that met briefly from 1980 - 81 . The Violet Quill included other prolific gay writers like Edmund White and Felice Picano . Garber , who has historically been very protective of his privacy , uses `` Andrew Holleran '' as his pseudonym . Dancer from the Dance , his first novel , was published in 1978 . Its narrative takes place among the discotheques of New York City and Fire Island , although it is Fire Island , with its literal distance from the mainland , that provides a pivotal backdrop for the novel . Dancer shares many of its locales , as well as its themes , with Faggots , Larry Kramer 's novel , published in the same year . Holleran 's second novel was Nights in Aruba ( 1983 ) , and his third is titled The Beauty of Men ( 1996 ) . The Beauty of Men takes place in central Florida where the main character , a 47 - year - old gay man , has gone to take care of his quadriplegic mother . Holleran 's Grief : a Novel received the 2007 Stonewall Book Award . For a number of years Holleran taught creative writing at American University in Washington , DC , and he continues to publish short fiction in gay short story collections like M2M : New Literary Fiction and frequently publishes articles in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide He received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2007 . He graduated from Harvard College in 1965 ., Felice Picano (born 1944) is an American writer, publisher, and critic who has encouraged the development of gay literature in the United States. His work is documented in many sources., The Beautiful Room Is Empty is a 1988 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. 
It is the second of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by "A Boy's Own Story" (1982) and followed by "The Farewell Symphony" (1997). It depicts the adolescence and early adulthood of its protagonist, and documents his experience of homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, ending with the Stonewall Riots of 1969., The Joy of Gay Sex is a sex manual for men who have sex with men by Charles Silverstein and Edmund White. The book was first published in 1977., The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States., Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. Probably his best-known books are "The Joy of Gay Sex" (1977) (written with Charles Silverstein), his trio of autobiographic novels, "A Boy's Own Story" (1982), "The Beautiful Room Is Empty" (1988) and "The Farewell Symphony" (1997), and his biography of Jean Genet., Gay literature is a collective term for literature produced by or for the LGBT community which involves characters, plot lines, and/or themes portraying male homosexual behavior. The term is now used most commonly to cover specifically gay male literature, with a separate genre of lesbian literature existing for women. Historically, the term "gay literature" was sometimes used to cover both gay male and lesbian literatures., Charles Silverstein (born 1935) is an American writer, therapist and gay activist. , The Farewell Symphony is a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. 
It is the third of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by "A Boy's Own Story" (1982) and "The Beautiful Room Is Empty" (1988). It depicts the later adulthood of its protagonist and documents his experience of homosexuality from the 1960s to the 1990s., Subject: andrew holleran, Relation: sexual_orientation, Options: (A) gay (B) homosexuality (C) lesbian
Output: homosexuality