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Contents:

• THE FABER BOOK OF GAY SHORT FICTN
• THE FABER BOOK OF GAY SHORT FICTN
• THE FABER BOOK OF GAY SHORT FICTN
• THE FABER BOOK OF GAY SHORT FICTN
• BT GAY SHORT FICTN ANTHOLOGI

THE FABER BOOK OF GAY SHORT FICTN

95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-571-12908-9A distguished anthology of work by 32 Amerin and Brish wrers fulfills what Whe ( A Boy's Own Story) lls the ``tw urg'' of gay fictn--``the obligatn to expla and the ambn to exce.

July 15, 2020Gay wrers are not jt reportg the past but also shapg the future, fg an inty as much as revealg Faber Book of Short Gay Fictn, Edmund Whe, edorReviewed by Leo Racit Like the very bt jewels om the fay vlt, Edmund Whe, 1991, gathered together the 32 stori about and by gay men.

THE FABER BOOK OF GAY SHORT FICTN

Spurred on his ia by a very enthiastic Robert McCm, renowned edor of the equally renowned Faber and Faber, Whe set about to unearth as many gay treasur as he uld: those he remembered likg the first time he read them, those he had heard posive words about, along wh a few outgs om (at the time) new wrers, lendg the llectn a ntemporary as well as an historil Faber Book of Gay Short Fictn is a valuable and valued anthology. Here is a gala gatherg unr the roof of one book of every legend of gay culture and the gay lerary world, men now gilt myth, gay history and the magic of words.

Lanster, a salute to gays as a group, a global muny rather than as a particular person.

THE FABER BOOK OF GAY SHORT FICTN

The gay man knows a permanent sense of alienatn om the tribe, but also the unwillgns of parents and relativ to five or unrstand, the often unwanted pany of women (viewed as tsive or unnecsary), hearty boyhood affairs, randy, never-to-be-fotten liaisons, urtships and lovely bodi and Style, lts, longgs and sorrows—a gay Panorama egg of a subculture’s ctoms, stum and secret languag, multiple forms of gay exprsn and male bety. It ma history and also has kept s che, a high watershed place gay lerature that has not, I thk, been toppled.

There were some quibbl about the tle – and why we had not ma Gay and Lbian Short Fictn – but nothg ser. ”I want to be bold and say I believe The Faber Book of Short Gay Fictn iated a queer renaissance. Forster, Jam Baldw and Langston Hugh were homosexuals.

THE FABER BOOK OF GAY SHORT FICTN

The Faber acquated rears wh The Vlet Quill, a group of seven gay creators (Whe, Felice Pino, Andrew Holleran, Robert Ferro, Gee Whmore, Michael Gmley, Christopher Cox) formed to read and crique one another’s wrg.

Pino rells the group was tablished bee straight edors and lerary agents were not beg helpful wh gay-themed work. #The Faber’s wise cln of foreign thors generated a starburst of exploratn to gay wrg outsi the Uned Stat.

Rears disvered Machado Assis whose anti-Realist hybrid prose lent crence to the hypothis that he was gay.

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And certaly, Armistead Mp’s story the Faber helped brg wispread succs to his Tal of the Cy ’s elimatn om the llectn of one of the most celebrated gay thors of his time, Tman Capote, was due to the amazg fact that Capote never published a gay short fictn. (Intertg asi: mor had that a stg uch element siar to the one that existed Hollywood for actors existed the publishg world and that Capote’s earlit gay-themed submissns were snubbed by publisher, Bent Cerf, after Capote refed to give Cerf a blow job. Pl I was fat, homely and shy, and the gay world—three strik and you’re out!

Not a gay book, strictly speakg, Fettg Elena neverthels offered an open vatn to a gay sensibily. A major assist om Patrick Merla, edor of three now-legendary gay publitns: Christopher Street, New York Native and Jam Whe Review, helped me track down a fascatg packrat Florida who’d hung on to every, sgle issue of Patrick Pache’s dive tone of 60s, 70s, 80s entertament, After Dark, many of which nta Ed’s early says and is no exaggeratg the value of Ed’s own assistance; he has opened his home, his vast personal llectn, his memory palace to me, a grateful visor.

And my own personal and private passn for the history of The Gay Liberatn Movement North Ameri se me embarkg on a new project: A Pictorial and Oral History of Gay Lib. Ed wrote not to have the world’s prejudic agast homosexuals eradited, rather, to show others what is like to walk our sho. This tth-tellg energy and output land him the tbird seat, paralyzed his ntemporari and gave a voice to generatns of gay men.