Better Angel

By Richard Meeker

Subjects: Gay men, Fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Gay youth, Women, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Relations with gay men, Relations with women, Fiction, general, Closeted gays

Description: Better Angel is a novel by Forman Brown first published in 1933 under the pseudonym Richard Meeker. It was republished as Torment in 1951. It is an early novel which describes a gay lifestyle without condemning it. Christopher Carey called it "the first homosexual novel with a truly happy ending".