Christopher Bram
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Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence's older, sophisticated friends-male and female, gay and straight-find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness.
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Description
A World War II sailor works in a New York City brothel-for his country After being arrested in a gay brothel in New York during a raid, Seaman Second Class Hank Fayette doesn't understand why his homosexual activities are grounds for imprisonment. The brothel is rumored to be a hangout for Nazi spies and the Navy forces Hank to go undercover as a prostitute. They hope to use clandestine sexuality to retrieve clandestine intelligence. However,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Description
"Spanning more than sixty years from the Civil War to the early 1920s, and moving from the battlefields of the South to New York City, through Paris, London, Constantinople, and Coney Island, [this novel] features Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, an improvisational pianist who believes his music is sometimes inspired by the spirit world. He is in love with Isaac Kemp, an ex-slave who only sporadically returns his affections and who himself...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
The last days of James Whale, the acclaimed director of such horror movies as Frankenstein. In ill health, his mind projecting never-ending rushes from his life, he directs his own death at the hands of his homosexual gardener. By the author of In Memory of Angel Clare
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
In the 1950's, being gay will get a man fired in America's Foreign Service. In the Vietnam War era, a murder in a Philippines jungle village and a Saigon party of on-leave servicemen, Asian gay boys, and rich colonials force Jim Goodall into a dramatic confrontation with himself.--From publisher description.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
It's 1957, and Hollywood horror director James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The invisible man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper Hannah hires handsome young gardener Clayton Boone, the gay director and the simple yardman develop an unlikely friendship.