Books shelved as gay-pulp: To Want a Boy by Bert Shrar, Go Down, Aaron by Chris Davidson, Happyland and Other Stori by Alexanr Goodman, A Summer on...
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- GAY PULP ART
- I DIGIZED SOME GAY PULP FOR YOU
- GAY ART
- GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
- GAY PULP BOOKS
- #ARTDEPT: VTAGE GAY PULP BOOK COVERS
GAY PULP ART
Silver Wner, ForeWord Magaze Book of the Year Award (Gay/Lbian Non-Fictn)Bronze Wner, Inpennt Publisher Book Award (Bt Eroti)When first published 1972, A Historic Collectn of Gay ... * gay pulp art *
But while he was drawg maps and illtratg scen of Louisiana folklife, he was also wrg dozens of semi-tobgraphil gay pulp novels, patg most of their vers himself, and publishg them unr his own name through major pulp pani of the late 1960s. In the 1970s and after, he voted himself to newspaper ic strips about lol history and relig topics, while also wrg and drawg extensive gay-themed science-fictn ics. "The first wave of gay pulp fictn materialized the 1940s and was primarily posed of reprts of earlier mastream, rpected lerary fictn wh gay them.
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Though lbian-themed pulp fictn was also beg produced at this time, they nsisted of origal stori wrten by men for a heterosexual male dience whereas the gay pulp fictn books were wrten by gay men for a wi rearship.
Relaxatn of censorship laws the 1960s led to a send wave of gay and lbian pulp fictn where was possible to publish work wh more explic sexual ntent and prent unapologetic queer characters. For both gays and lbians the new wrgs, which reached far more people than the earlier lerary fictn, "were both a visceral and visible marker of personal as well as group inty" acrdg to thor Michael Bronski. Addnally, the back pag of the books, there were advertisements for homophile anizatns and spac for personal ads.
‘Rally Round the Fag’ one of ten vtage gay pulp novels starrg the popular character “Jackie Holm” om ‘The Man om C. Historilly, lbian pulp was much more popular than novels featurg the explos of gay men—and that is, of urse, bee the lbian pulp was wily purchased by straight dus.
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The populary of the novels ntued to rise durg 1940s though, as noted the book Where Thy Dark Eye Glanc: Queerg Edgar Allan Poe eded by pulp historian Steve Berman, the very first te “gay pulp” novel was published 1952 by thor Gee Viereck.
Viereck, a former propaganda tool of the Nazis durg WWII thored the 195 page Men to Beasts that ed homosexual prison culture as a part of s storyle—somethg Viereck had observed first hand while he was locked up. Senator Joseph McCarthy who addn to his spicns that mi, pkos and reds had managed to weasel their way to ernment posns, was also nvced that was swarmg wh homosexuals, probably mie, pko homosexuals, too.
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McCarthy sent his right-wg buddi to turn up the heat on the State Department claims which would rult the acknowledgment that 91 employe had been intified as “gay” and were fired unr the guise that they were a huge “secury risk.
Senate lnched the ridiculo soundg vtigatn “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts the Government”. Upon the ncln of what is bt scribed as a gay wch hunt, the mtee was unable to intify any Amerin cizen who might have sold out the good-old U. This didn’t stop the mtee om publishg a post-operative paper which “nclively” tablished that a gay man or a lbian posssed “weak moral character” and that the cln of only one homosexual n “pollute a ernment office.
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Pulp paperbacks were ma to be throwaway readg. The often end up the trash, and plenty were trash. Publishers of pulps had the eedom to let wrers produce books too out-there for mastream publishers. There were wrers who wanted to tell stori about gay men, lbians, transgenred and transvt, subjects nsired too risque for * gay pulp art *
Post office uld no longer refe to liver books that featured homosexualy, which, acrdg to rearch nducted by the Universy of Massachetts Prs led to a verable “explosn” of gay pulp novels. Now that I’ve shared a b of the rich history surroundg gay pulp fictn, let’s take a look at some of the more hysteril, tongue--cheek vers that created such a stir back the 50s and 60s, shall we?
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My subject is Carl Corley, a gay man om Mississippi and Louisiana who wrote several dozen gay pulp novels the Sixti and Seventi unr his own name, which was super rare at the time. Gay and lbian pulp novels have been nsired trash for a long time, but they were actually some of the first plac queer people ld see themselv, and queer thors took advantage of that.