The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) — Content Guide for Parents
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- ViolenceBrief
- Sexual contentCentral
- Gender rolesBriefTraditional roles
- Gender & orientationCentral
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- Religion
- Race & culture
- Climate
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- Profanity
- Profanity: The sources do not describe the book's language or list swear words, so profanity cannot be confirmed or ruled out.
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Religion
PRESENTContains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.
About this book
"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World
The country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
Frequently asked questions
Is The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) appropriate for a 7-year-old?
The narrator attacks a man named Simon, a police raid at the Stonewall leads to a riot, and the narrator's father is said to have wanted to kill him. The book includes explicit lovemaking scenes and the narrator's repeated casual sex and cruising in public restrooms and elsewhere.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have violence?
Found (Brief): The narrator attacks a man named Simon, a police raid at the Stonewall leads to a riot, and the narrator's father is said to have wanted to kill him.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have scary content?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have religion?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have race & culture?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have profanity?
Couldn't confirm: The sources do not describe the book's language or list swear words, so profanity cannot be confirmed or ruled out.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have sexual content?
Found (Central): The book includes explicit lovemaking scenes and the narrator's repeated casual sex and cruising in public restrooms and elsewhere.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have gender roles?
Found (Brief, Traditional roles): The narrator's father is determined to make a man of him and gives him yard work to drive out his gayness.
Does The Beautiful Room Is Empty A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) have gender & orientation?
Found (Central): The whole story follows a young gay man's coming out and coming of age from the 1950s to the Stonewall uprising in 1969.
