"We're finding an elegance and a dignity in our writing that we didn't have when we started writing about ourselves 15 or 20 years ago. "We are finding voices that are not just shrill with anger and racked with pain," he said. It's an acknowledgment that our literature is significant." But I think, among other things, including what I hope is appreciation for my book, this award is for all of us, everyone from Edmund White to Rita Mae Brown and a whole group of young gay and lesbian writers who are writing now. Some people will see it as just a politically correct decision in a year filled with political hatred and intolerance toward the gay and lesbian community. "I think this award sends a very happy message. Monette said in a telephone interview this week from his home in Los Angeles. "We were all standing there, laughing and drinking and reveling, when one of my friends turned to me and said, 'It's so nice not to be doing this at a funeral,' " Mr. After Paul Monette won the 1992 National Book Award for nonfiction last week for "Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story" (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), a memoir of discovering and accepting his homosexuality, several friends threw together a party.
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