Vintage Vidal
The City and the Pillar is Gore Vidal's first overtly gay novel, published in 1948. He was blacklisted as a novelist for many years as a result, which is why he spent a lot of time writing for television and film. But there was no ignoring his talent, and his later publishing record speaks for itself. Subsequent paperback editions of The City revised the ending, leaving it more ambiguous than the original, but the 1948 edition is a landmark in American literature.