Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature

Bergman analyzes the writings of such famous American writers as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin,  F. O. Matthiessen, and  Larry Kramer.  He considers the entire range of literature, including poetry and drama, and gives attention to African or Native American themes in the work of Alain Locke, Countee Cullen, Francis Grierson, David Plante and others.