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- ↑ Edmund White remembers the group meeting from 1979 to 1983; see his essay "Out of the Closet, Onto the Bookshelf", The New York Times, June 16, 1991, Section 6, Page 22.
- ↑ Picano, Felice (2007). Art and sex in Greenwich Village : gay literary life after Stonewall . New York: Carroll and Graf. ISBN 978-0-7867-1813-9.
- 1 2 3 4 Bergman, David, ed. (1994). The Violet Quill Reader: The Emergence of Gay Writing After Stonewall. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. ages xi-xiii. ISBN 978-0-312-11091-8.
- 1 2 3 Summers, Claude J. "The Violet Quill". The GLBTQ encyclopedia. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007.
- ↑ Bergman, David (2004). The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture. Columbia University Press. p. age 1. ISBN 978-0-231-13050-9.
- ↑ Brozan, Nadine (1994). "CHRONICLE". The New York Times . Published:May 9, 1994. Short piece on Felice Picano reading and reference to The Violet Quill.