Works of importance in the 1980s included Pai Hsien-yung's Sinful Child, Chen Juo-yi's Paper Marriage, and Kuo Liang-hui's The Third Sex. Sinful Child was even made into a film. Nevertheless, it was only in the 1990s that homosexual writing really became prominent in literary circles in Taiwan and became a fad.
而八○年代有白先勇的《孽子》，陳若曦的《紙婚》，郭良蕙的《第三性》等，《孽子》一書還拍成電影，但一直到九○年代，同志書寫才在台灣文壇發光，儼然成為顯學。