(GAY ZINES) Straight to Hell: The Manhattan Review of Unnatural...

Contents:

• GAY STRAIGHT HELL PORN VIOS
• DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?
• (GAY ZINES) STRAIGHT TO HELL: THE MANHATTAN REVIEW OF UNNATURAL ACTS.

GAY STRAIGHT HELL PORN VIOS

“Contrary to their reputatns, ” Boyd McDonald once said, “the real hot homosexuals who have sex toilets and so forth are simply nicer people and more ncerned, more rg, more lovg, more affectnate, and iendlier than the ps. He found his llg the early 1970s after he got sober, dropped out of straight life, holed up a New York Cy SRO, and began publishg the ze Straight to Hell, a pendium of real-life gay-sex stori that is still beg published today, more than twenty years after his ath. ” McDonald published thirteen book-length anthologi (Meat, Flh, Sex, Cum, Smut, Juice, Wads, Cream, Filth, Sk, Rnch, Lewd, and Scum), the first of which, published 1981 by Gay Sunshe Prs, sold more than 50, 000 pi.

” McDonald’s refal to assiate still feels radil today’s age of queer gentrifitn; at a time when people are searchg for more unpromisg visns of queerns, his work is ripe for a new bgraphy, Te Homosexual Experienc: Boyd McDonald and “Straight to Hell, ” the wrer, artist, and filmmaker William E.

DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?

It’s not easy to renstct the story of a gay man of McDonald’s era, pecially one who lived such a margal life: his ntemporari are mostly ad, he wrote surprisgly ltle about his personal life, and while there is an archive of his papers at Cornell Universy, nsists maly of bs rrponnce. “They say Boyd was a homosexual, ” his sister said to Billy Miller, the then and current edor of Straight to Hell, “is that te? For twenty years followg his graduatn, he had one foot the world of “straight” rporate media and the other the subterranean world of gay sex postwar Ameri.

McDonald’s “troductn to homosexualy, ” as he put , occurred while he was tourg wh a dance band right after high school, but his most formative sexual experienc were Manhattan the 1950s — he lled a “wildly promiscuo” time and place, and said he had sex wh up to three strangers a night.

McDonald paid for prtg sts wh his welfare checks — he joked that was the only gay-sex magaze fund by the US ernment. The ze was available via subscriptn and uld also be found at adult and gay bookstor, but was shunned by some of the more mastream gay tablishments — the owner of Greenwich Village’s olst gay bookstore refed to rry the years, the athetic and tone of the ze softened and beme more profsnal: photo qualy improved, tiras mellowed, swastikas disappeared, offset prtg and stapl were troduced.

(GAY ZINES) STRAIGHT TO HELL: THE MANHATTAN REVIEW OF UNNATURAL ACTS.

”In McDonald’s wrg, gayns is goodns and all men who aren’t some way formed enjoy sex wh other men. “I wre for the lower and upper class, ” he once wrote a screed agast bourgeois gays and their pursu of rpectabily, “not the Risg Middle Class.