(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?

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

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.