Pioneering works of gay male erotica from this time were The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881),Harford Montgomery Hyde, "The love that dared not speak its name: a candid history of homosexuality in Britain", Little, Brown, 1970, pp.121–123 which features the celebrated Victorian transvestite duo of Boulton and Park as characters,Ronald Pearsall (1971) The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality. London, Penguin: 561-8 and Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal (1893).Nelson, James. Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000Robert Gray and Christopher Keep, "An Uninterrupted Current: Homoeroticism and collaborative authorship in Teleny", in Marjorie Stone, Judith Thompson (edd) "Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship", University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, , p.193Edouard Roditi, "Oscar Wilde", New Directions Publishing, 1986, , p.168
