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May 22, 2013 · Gay author Christopher Bram recounts how scouting helped him make it through adolescence and discover his true self.
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Mar 27, 2013 · Recently, I was able to interview Christopher Bram about his work, support of the LGBT community and his participation in Lambda’s LGBT Writers in Schools program. I have admired Christopher’s work as well as his dedication to promoting diversity and the history of LGBT literature.
In a celebrity obsessed culture, author Christopher Bram breaks the rules. When I’d first approached him about an interview for Lambda Literary Review in New York’s LGBT Community Center, following a panel discussion, Bram was gentle in his demeanor, appreciative of the interest in his work.
Gay author Christopher Bram recounts how scouting helped him make it through adolescence and discover his true self.
Jan 1, 1987 · Christopher Bram published an Op-Ed in the Advocate about his experience as a gay Boy Scout: "Being a Boy Scout saved my life," writes Bram. "I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied.
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Mar 8, 2012 · Christopher Bram opens the introduction to this informative and highly entertaining overview of gay male writing since World War Two with, “The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.” Later, he elaborates on this thesis:
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Bram, best known as a novelist ("Gods and Monsters"), gives an endlessly fascinating, first-of-its-kind account of about a dozen gay novelists, poets and playwrights, from Vidal and Tennesssee...