Meatmen: An Anthology Of Gay Male Comics (Volume 25)|Wston Leyland

Contents:

• MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE COMICS (32 RULTS)
• MEATMEN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE ICS
• MEATMEN : AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE ICS. VOL. 25
• MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE COMICS (32 RULTS)
• AND STILL MORE MEATMEN; AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE ICS, VOLUME 3. UNKNOWN BDG
• MEATMEN ANTHOLOGY GAY MALE COMICS BY LEYLAND WSTON (25 RULTS)
• AND STILL MORE MEATMEN; AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE ICS, VOLUME 3. UNKNOWN BDG
• MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE ICS VOLUME 25
• MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE COMICS (32 RULTS)

MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE COMICS (32 RULTS)

Fourth volume the gay male ics anthology Meatmen eded and published by Wston Leyland. This llectn of gay male ics has jt a touch of shelf wear on the vers, all else fe. Paperbound llectn of gay male ics has light edge and shelf wear, small scratch ont right edge.

An -pth llectn of gay male ics by eighteen artists.

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Paperback llectn of gay male rtoons is near fe ndn wh very light ver shelf wear. The only real difference between 1984 and 1985 that I’m aware of though is that by the end of 1984, every major ic book publisher had troduced at least one gay character (kd of). Eclipse ntued not rg whatosoever about the Co, publishg a story lled “Dance on a Razor’s Edge: A Ballet on the Death of Y Mishima” Night Mic #2, cludg an erotic dream by Mishima about Sat Sebastian (who is a Catholic sat the gay muny has kd of -opted.

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Comix by Carl Vghn Frick (sometim jt lled “Vghn” or “Vghn Frick”), which was a satire about the gay muny of San Francis. Starblaze Graphics published the graphic novel Fortune’s Friends: Hell Week by Kay & Mike Reynolds, the lead character of which was gay.

But, perhaps most importantly, 1986 was the year that Meatmen was lnched by Leyland Publitns — was an anthology book of primarily erotic gay ics. It would n ntuoly until 2004, and durg s n is said that they featured “every gay male rtoonist of note who has worked sce the 1970s. And so Homosexualy: Legimate, Alternate Deathstyle me to be published — a “non-fictn” book claimg to be “the facts” but actualy a whole bunch of propaganda about how evil homosexuals were.

It was still seekg Co approval, and so the only openly homosexual character was the mor character of Silhouette. There were implitns (later nfirmed by the creators) that the two mor characters Hood Jtice and Capta Metropolis were gay and a relatnship together. The character Rorschach, equently assumed to be asexual, also referred to the character Ozymandias as “possibly homosexual.

MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE COMICS (32 RULTS)

Eclipse wasn’t makg thgs ls gay eher, even gog so far as to produce a three issue miseri lled Hotspur which clus a gay barbarian named Suu of Xoo — a clear parody of Conan the Barbarian, I thk.

At about the same time as that seri began, First Comics published Jon Sable, Freelance #45, where the tle characters acpani his gay iend Gray Adler on a yacht to Cann – ’s a plite storyle, but volv closeted gay actors and people dyg of AIDS. The next year Sable #1, Gray Adler nvced Sable to help a gay man dyg of AIDS return to Iran before his ath. They also ma on the lead characters their seri Phaze a gay man named Artem John who had a lengthy history of gay rights activism prr to the begng of their story.

Mantlo was also mted to Byrne’s ia of makg Northstar gay, and so ntued droppg those hts. 1988 was maybe the first really big year for gays ics. The big news of the year would mostly e om DC Comics, who troduced their first gay superhero Extraño (real name Gregor la Vega) the issue Millienium #2.

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Extraño exemplified virtually every stereotype of gay men, which was an tentnal effort by his creators to get the pot across whout g any language that would vlate the Co. Maggie was a very popular character, and the March 1988 issue of Superman (vol 2) #15 — unr the wrg of John Byrne, whom you may rell was sistent on Northstar beg gay — she beme the first openly lbian character DC ics. That issue also troduced Maggie’s dghter, makg her the first homosexual parent a mastream ic book.

Fate fend a gay rights rally The Spectre #11, and havg the Green Arrow vtigate anti-gay hate crim Green Arrow #5.

As if that all wasn’t enough to make five them, they also troduced to mor gay characters (of urse whout g the word — they had to nsir the Co!

MEATMEN ANTHOLOGY GAY MALE COMICS BY LEYLAND WSTON (25 RULTS)

(The tle was also a play on “out of the bars and to the streets” — a rallyg cry of the gay rights movement. ) That same summer, he morated the first Gays Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con.

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The Gays Comics panel has occurred every year sce, though the name was eventually changed to “Out Comics.

Meanwhile Donna Barr began publishg The Dert Peach — a ic book seri tailg the World War II adventur of Erw “The Dert Fox” Rommel’s fictnal gay brother Maned Rommel. (Artists Agast Rampant Government Homophobia), which was released the UK that year, orr to raise money to fight agast the anti-gay legislatn Clse 28. It was syndited to a number of gay newspapers and magaz, and later a movie was ma based on .

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The graphic novel Homo Patrol was released, tacklg issu surroundg AIDS and homophobia. John Blackburn began self-publishg his gay erotic ic seri Coley.

Robert Triptow put together Gay Comics, a history of well, everythg you’ve read about here so far — the history of gays ics. Shortly afterwards, Jericho Wilson and Mark Phillips found the first gay amatr prs associatn (or APA) which they lled Northstar after, you know, Northstar. A matter of months later, Andy Mangels and Roger Klore found the send gay APA which they lled The APA That Dare Not Speak Its Name (after the famo Osr Wil speech).

Instead, they replaced them wh a le that required all social group — cludg homosexuals — to be portrayed a posive light, and that rogatory referenc to sexual orientatn uld only be ed for dramatic purpos. They were ready to go for — and queer artists, embolned by the growg gay rights movement — were ready to ph the envelope even farther. In October of 1971, artist Rand Holm tackled the homophobia the book Everythg You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Aaid to Ask) — which we will some day talk about greater tail some day when I tackle the sordid history of nversn therapy — statg that sets psychiatry back by 50 years, and gog so far as to have the lead character of his “The Contug Adventur of Harold Hedd” engage explic oral sex wh another man before blatantly llg out the book’s thor David Rben M.

MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE COMICS (32 RULTS)

It managed to eke out a Co seal by never really gog farther than referrg to the character as a “fairy” a way that might have implied that he was magic rather than gay. Though 1975 was somethg of a quiet year — wh the exceptn of a lbian beg troduced the send issue of Further Fatteng Adventur of Pudge, Girl Blimp by Lee Marrs, and the character Pudge gettg almost arrted at a gay rights rally. Howver, 1976 was a banner year for gay ics.

It kicked off Febary wh the first recurrg openly gay character mastream ics — ic strips, that is — when Garry T troduced the character of Andy Lipptt to his daily strip Doonbury. Which meant, officially, the first gay recurrg character had appeared ic strip and ic book format.