Title: Torment
Description: Better Angel is a novel by Forman Brown first published in 1933 under the pseudonym Richard Meeker. It was republished as Torment in 1951. It is an early novel which describes a gay lifestyle without condemning it. Christopher Carey called it "the first homosexual novel with a truly happy ending".
Subjects: Fiction, Gay men, Gay youth, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Fiction, general, Closeted gays, Relations with gay men, Relations with women, Women, LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall
Places: Michigan, New York (N.Y.)