The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
Contents:
- GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
- LBIAN & GAY PULP FICTN
- GAY PULP BOOKS
- GAY PULP FICTN
- 1970’S GAY PULP
- 1960S GAY PULP FICTN
- BROWN UNIVERSY IS ARCHIVG GAY PULP FICTN TO PRERVE A MOMENT OF LGBTQ HISTORY
- PASSNS UNVERED: GAY, LBIAN AND TRANSGENRED PULPS
- 37 - GAY MALE AND LBIAN PULP FICTN AND MASS CULTURE
GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
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... * pulp fiction gay *
"They are an tegral aspect of gay male culture and gay history that is as val as—ed separable om—our fight for legal equaly and personal eedom.
They are the rerds—albe fictnal on, often seen through the peculiar lens of their tim—of how gay men lived, thought, sired, loved and survived. In November 2005, the Bgham Center received an ial donatn of 378 gay male mysteri and police stori and 109 gay Amerin pulps generoly given by Drewey Wayne Gunn, Profsor Emer, Texas A&M Universy-Kgsville.
LBIAN & GAY PULP FICTN
The Gay Pulp Fictn Collectn nsists of over 1,100 fictns tl mass market paperback form on male homosexual and bisexual them, published om the 1940's through the 1990's. * pulp fiction gay *
Gunn is the five llector of gay male mysteri and wrote the 2005 book The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film: A History and Annotated Biblgraphy.
GAY PULP BOOKS
As a rult of a seri of urt s, by the mid-1960s the U.S. post office uld no longer terdict books that ntaed homosexualy. Gay wrers were ... * pulp fiction gay *
Gunn first disvered gay paperbacks at nvenience stor the small Texas town where he lived durg the 1960s. After retirement, Gunn began his rearch to the gay male mystery and pulp fictn genr.
History of Gay Male Mystery and Pulp Fictn GenrIn the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, U. In the wake of the legal victori and wh the flourishg of the homophile movement, there was an explosn of gay "pulp" fictn publishg.
GAY PULP FICTN
An exhibn of selected book vers om gay, lbian and transgenr themed vtage paperbacks. * pulp fiction gay *
Bis servg as a "validatn of gay male sexual sir" (Bronski, 2001, p.
1970’S GAY PULP
20), the books, wrten primarily by gay men, offered rears sights to how gay men lived. They served as primers on gay cultural norms for newly g out or isolated gay men. At first, the gay-themed books did not acknowledge the possibily of a "gay life, " jt "gay sex, " but as gay culture and polics veloped, gay fictn reflected a new all-enpassg culture separate om the "straight world.
The CollectnThe Drewey Wayne Gunn and Jacqu Murat Collectn of Gay Amerin Pulps and the Drewey Wayne Gunn Collectn of Gay Male Mysteri and Police Stori are ma up primarily of books prted by low-budget publishers the post-Stonewall era (after 1969).
1960S GAY PULP FICTN
The pulp novels, mostly om the 1970s, are often pornographic exploratns of gay male sir. In an effort to pass the Supreme Court's new standards, troductns a number of the books discs how that particular novel fs wh the historil ntext of homosexualy and why the tle is a necsary step dismantlg "sexual reprsn.
BROWN UNIVERSY IS ARCHIVG GAY PULP FICTN TO PRERVE A MOMENT OF LGBTQ HISTORY
" There are currently 109 tl our gay Amerin pulps llectn which has been supplemented wh the purchase of 58 addnal gay male pulps. By the 1980s and 1990s, as gay culture entered to the mastream, gay-themed novels were prted by proment publishg ho.
The Drewey Wayne Gunn Collectn of Gay Male Mysteri and Police Stori currently nsists of 378 books rangg om mastream hardbacks to Japane manga to the specialized publisher, "adult only" tl. The publishg world has evolved to the extent that some of the wrers reprented this llectn aren't classified as "gay wrers.
"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. 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.
PASSNS UNVERED: GAY, LBIAN AND TRANSGENRED PULPS
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.
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Addnally, the back pag of the books, there were advertisements for homophile anizatns and spac for personal ads. Ste (Ed), Encyclopedia of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr history Ameri.
Search for the work you want (for example, "Gay Berl") and open the page. Swallow the Lear: Amgly tled, tawdry gay pulp novels of the 50s & 60s. ‘Rally Round the Fag’ one of ten vtage gay pulp novels starrg the popular character “Jackie Holm” om ‘The Man om C.
Gay pulp novels have been around sce the 1930s when the sale of paperback books proliferated.