a plane crash. Recognition The novel presents an example of how gay men kept their homosexuality hidden in the 1950s. It has been admired as a work that portrayed the main characters as people who grew in self confidence, which differentiated the novel from other gay literature of the time portraying homosexual men as campy. Most gay works at the time had ended with either suicide or murder out of self-loathing, another tradition broken by Quatrefoil, though Tim still dies. See also Quatrefoil, a decorative element Quatrefoil Library, which was named for the novel Lost Gay Novels References External links Quatrefoil via The Internet Archive 1950 American novels Gay male romance novels 1950s LGBT novels