Mary Renlt as the First Gay Novelist - The Gay & Lbian Review

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MARY RENLT, THE BTSELLG GAY NOVELIST THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM

That The Charteer by Mary Renlt was read as a “gay novel” is monstrated by the fact that beme an stant btseller among homosexual rears * renault de gay *

It would be, as David Sweetman wr Mary Renlt: A Bgraphy, “the first openly [gay] novel by a ser wrer to be published Bra” sce World War II.

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Daniel Menlsohn tails his rrponnce wh Mary Renlt, whose historil-fictn novels helped him unrstand himself as a wrer and a gay man. * renault de gay *

Dpe their misgivgs, The Charteer would lnch Renlt’s reer as a btsellg wrer boldly explorg gay them wh gay rears md— an era when police entrapment of gay men was roilg Bra, the “lavenr sre” purged gay workers om U.

Lrie falls love wh chaste Andrew, but later rennects wh a former csh named Ralph at a gay party, and mt choose between the Platonic ial or imperfect gratifitn.

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