The Violet Quill

The Violet Quill (or the Violet Quill Club) was a group of seven gay male writers that met in 1980 and 1981[1] in New York City to read from their writings to each other and to critique them.[2] This group and the writers epitomize the years between the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the AIDS pandemic.[3][4]

  1. ^ Edmund White remembers the group meeting from 1979 to 1983; see his essay "Out of the Closet, Onto the Bookshelf", The New York Times, June 16, 1991, Section 6, Page 22.
  2. ^ Picano, Felice (2007). Art and sex in Greenwich Village : gay literary life after Stonewall. New York: Carroll and Graf. ISBN 978-0-7867-1813-9.
  3. ^ Bergman, David, ed. (1994). The Violet Quill Reader: The Emergence of Gay Writing After Stonewall. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. ages xi-xiii. ISBN 978-0-312-11091-8.
  4. ^ Summers, Claude J. "The Violet Quill". The GLBTQ encyclopedia. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007.