The Times Online guest contributors Opinion:

"BRAD AND TROY seem to have the perfect relationship. They’re gorgeous. Brad’s a celebrity chef, Troy’s a “hip fashion designer”. But the bitchy Aria (a man) is out to destroy their happiness. Aria tells Troy, his ex, that Brad’s been “slutting around”. Can our two heroes weather Aria’s scheming to stay together?

In the canon of gay literature, Scott Pomfret and Scott Whittier’s novel Hot Sauce (Warner Books) doesn’t share obvious shelf space with Alan Hollinghurst, though there is a grander plan behind this frothy love story. The couple have created a genre of literature, Romentics, “for all gay men who believe in happily ever after” — a million miles away from the worthy gay literature of old in which coming out, Aids and homophobia were staple themes. As the playwright Paul Rudnick puts it: “True equality demands equal trash.”"