Bram, Christopher

Follows Caleb, a struggling playwright; Frank, a director; Henry, an actor; Toby, an acting student; Jessie, a personal assistant; and Kenneth, an underling theater critic, as their ambitions and love lives intersect on New York's theater scene.

Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.

Dr. August, the ex-slave he is in love with, and Alice Pangborn travel around the world together involved in a strange love triangle that threatens to destroy their friendships.