In 1963 she published her first novel, Benefactor, and in 1967 the novel Death Kit. In 1964 appeared one of her most important essays, Notes on "Camp". Even though she is a lesbian writer, her work has not articulated a concern qith female homosexuality but has consistently investigated gay culture. In 1989 Sontag published AIDS and Its Metaphors, in which she focused the debates on HIV/AIDS as a cultural as well as a medical syndrome.