"We created gay literature as a separate genre in a way that it hadn't existed before," he said.

The rush of gay literature and art tends to make us do just that.

The book charts the development black gay male literature from 1979 to the present.

Each had moderate sales, of about 5,000 copies, and each would probably have sold more as gay literature.

Gregory Woods has produced other studies, including a history of gay literature with some reference to poetry.

It is now considered an important step in the formation of "gay literature".

These myths have been interpreted as early forms of gay literature.

Explicitly gay literature or cinema and television roles are equally scarce.

Have his diaries had an enduring influence in gay literature?

They married a year later; now 75, she works as a literary critic, specializing in gay literature.