The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel (Lambda Literary Award)

White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel is the story of a young man's coming of age in 1950s and 60s America.

"With intelligence, candor, humor—and anger—White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."—Washington Post book World

The country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising—and populated by eloqu...