Christopher Bram's guest appearances

Christopher Bram

The 7th Avenue Project

CUNY TV's Theater Talk

National Book Festival 2012 Videos

Dark Side of the Library

Tony Horwitz

John Waters

John Hodgman

Colson Whitehead

Tennessee Williams

Jon Mooallem

Robert Sapolsky

Patrick Stewart

Stephen Dunn

Jane Fonda

Daniel Radcliffe

Colin Quinn

Lynn Nottage

Amy Schumer

Wes Moore

OwlTail

Christopher Bram appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5780.

Christopher Bram appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival. <br><br>For captions, transcript, and more information visit <a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5780" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5780</a>.

Christopher Bram: 2012 National Book Festival

Theater Talk's guest is writer Christopher Bram, author of "Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America," his rich chronicle of gay authors, dramatists, and poets in post-WWII America and how they influenced the course of literary history.

Christopher Bram on his book "Eminent Outlaws"

In his new book, "Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America," Christopher Bram says it was literature more than any other art form that opened America's eyes to same-sex relationships and paved the way for gay rights. In the years following World War II, when homosexuality was taboo territory for movies, TV and other mass media, it was writers who broke the silence. Chris and I discussed the impact of writers such as Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, James Baldwin and Allen Ginsburg; the sometimes nasty critical reaction to their work; and how Chris himself read his way out of the closet.

Christopher Bram on the Gay Writers Who Changed America