The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
Contents:
- GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
- GAY PULP BOOKS
- 1970’S GAY PULP
- I DIGIZED SOME GAY PULP FOR YOU
- LBIAN & GAY PULP FICTN
- GAY PULP FICTN
- 37 - GAY MALE AND LBIAN PULP FICTN AND MASS CULTURE
- GAY MEN -- FICTN
- BROWN UNIVERSY IS ARCHIVG GAY PULP FICTN TO PRERVE A MOMENT OF LGBTQ HISTORY
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 guy *
"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.
GAY PULP BOOKS
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 guy *
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.
1970’S GAY PULP
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.
I DIGIZED SOME GAY PULP FOR YOU
‘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.
LBIAN & GAY PULP FICTN
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. 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.
GAY PULP FICTN
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. 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.
37 - GAY MALE AND LBIAN PULP FICTN AND MASS CULTURE
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? The 1970s were a signifint time LGBTQ+ history, wh the Stonewall rts and the start of the gay rights movement. Gay Pulps were a form of romance novels that were wrten between the ’30s and the ’70s wh them of homosexualy (Bronski 3).
GAY MEN -- FICTN
For this paper, we will look to pulp novels, specifilly gay pulps published the 1970s. Wh the explosn of the gay pulp dtry, we are lookg to answer how the gay novels affected the LGBTQ+ muny.
And to explore other mon them, trop, and ias that are mon gay pulp fictn and across non-gay pulp romance novels. We hope to start by zoomg on the gay pulp novels themselv, published only durg the 1970s. Fally, we plan to really take a ser dive to the effects of the Stonewall rts on the gay pulp dtry.
BROWN UNIVERSY IS ARCHIVG GAY PULP FICTN TO PRERVE A MOMENT OF LGBTQ HISTORY
The sourc will all f three tegori: is a novel, they are nsired to be gay pulp fictn the 1970s, and they are male-on-male romanc. The sourc are Gay-Way by Richard Hornsby, Gay-Bikers by Michael Stt, A Rose for Caar, a part of the Carl and Corley papers, and fally, Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren.
Gay pulps are books that were cheap novels, ually produced for a ltle over $1, that ntaed them of male and female homosexualy.
The pulp novels were the first-time gay men who had been reprented the romance novels dtry.