A llectn of gay erotic wrgs tracg the velopment of a gay inty om the late 19th century to jt before the Stonewall Inn rts Long before the rise of the morn gay movement, an unnoticed lerary revolutn was occurrg, mostly between the vers of the cheaply produced pulp paperbacks of the post-World War II era. Cultural cric Michael Bronski llects a samplg of the now ltle-known gay erotic wrgs—some by wrers long fotten, some never known and a few now famo. Through them, Bronski challeng many long-held views of Amerin postwar fictn and the rise of gay lerature, as well as of the culture at large.
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* pulp friction uncovering the golden age of gay male pulps *
A llectn of gay erotic wrgs tracg the velopment of a gay inty om the late 19th century to jt before the Stonewall Inn rts.
Long before the rise of the morn gay movement, an unnoticed lerary revolutn was occurrg, mostly between the vers of the cheaply produced pulp paperbacks of the post-World War II era. Cultural cric Michael Bronski llects a samplg of the now ltle-known gay erotic wrgs—some by wrers long fotten, some never known and a few now famo.
PULP FRICTION: UNVERG THE GOLN AGE OF GAY MALE PULPS
A llectn of gay erotic wrgs tracg the velopment of a gay inty om the late 19th century to jt before the Stonewall Inn rtsLong before th... * pulp friction uncovering the golden age of gay male pulps *
Through them, Bronski challeng many long-held views of Amerin postwar fictn and the rise of gay lerature, as well as of the culture at large.
His other works clu Culture Clash: The Makg of Gay Sensibily (1984), The Pleasure Prciple: Sex, Backlash and the Makg of Gay Freedom (1998), and Pulp Frictn: Unverg the Goln Age of Gay Male Pulps (2003), which won a Lambda Lerary Award for Bt Anthology 2004.
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Profsor Bronski's 1996 anthology, Takg Liberti: Gay Men's Essays on Polics, Culture and Sex, won the Lambda Lerary Award for Bt Anthology 1997. Bronski has been award the 1995 AIDS Actn Commtee Communy Regnn Award for 20 years of journalism on gay and AIDS-related topics; the 1996 Cambridge Lavenr Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award for journalism and polil anizg; the 1999 The Mart Duberman Fellowship for scholarly rearch LGBT studi, award by the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi, Cy Universy of New York, USA; the 1999 Stonewall Award, regnn for 'helpg improve the liv and LGBT people the Uned Stat' granted by the Anrson Prize Foundatn; the 2004 Learship Award om the D-GALA (Dartmouth Gay and Lbian Alumni Associatn); and the 2008 Distguished Lecturer Award granted by Dean of Faculty of Dartmouth College, USA. Pulp Frictn: Unverg the Goln Age of Gay Male Pulps.
By leavg the hallowed preccts of the 'lerary, ' Bronski lends a ntuy heretofore lackg many of our pictur of the velopment of gay fictn om World War II on.
Between the vers of gay pulp fictn, Michael Bronski fds fotten treasur, prentg juicy excerpts and his own wise sights to this neglected b of lerary history.
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” —Jonathan Ned Katz, thor of Love Stori: Sex Between Men Before Homosexualy and Gay Amerin History. Bronski has searched thoroughly and thought-provokgly, and this book should pop up on required readg lists for gay studi urs (the extensive appendix is valuable).
This is obvly a labor of love, and an absolute mt for gay historians and those terted stimulatg gay fictn om years gone by. Unverg the Goln Age of Gay Male Pulps. From rise of the pulp paperbacks to the begngs of the morn gay movement --a revealg, entertag anthology of early gay erotic wrgs.
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A llectn of gay erotic wrgs tracg the velopment of a gay inty om the late 19th century to jt before the Stonewall Inn rtsLong before the rise of the morn gay movement, an unnoticed lerary revolutn was occurrg, mostly between the vers of the cheaply produced pulp paperbacks of the post-World War II era. ” —Jonathan Ned Katz, thor of Love Stori: Sex Between Men Before Homosexualy and Gay Amerin History“A wonrful book, a sexy, funny, looney-tune work of social history that rewr the recent past. CONTENTSPart OneMastream Fictn: Not Particularly Hidg the ShadowsHarrison Dowd, The Night Air, Dial Prs, 1950Lonnie Coleman, Sam, David McKay, 1959Part TwoThe New Gay Novel: Happier Homos and Happier EndgsJam Barr, "Spurr Piece" om Derricks, Greenberg, 1951Jay Ltle, Maybe—Tomorrow, Pageant Prs, 1952Part ThreeTly Pulp: "Gay" Life the ShadowsMichael De Forrt, The Gay Year, Woodford Prs, 1949V Packer (Marijane Meaker), Whisper His S, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1954Ben Travis, The Strange On, Bean Book, 1959Jam Colton (Joseph Hansen), Lost on Twilight Road, Natnal Library, 1964Jeff X, The Memoirs of Jeff X, Zil, 1968Part FourOut of the Twilight World: The Sexual Revolutn Go LavenrThe Boys of Mcle Beach, Guild Prs, 1969 (reprt om the 1950s)Richard Amory, Song of the Loon, Greenleaf Classics, 1966Carl Corley, My Purple Wter, PEC French Le, 1966Jack Love, Gay Whore, PEC French Le, 1967Chris Davidson, A Different Dm, Ember Library/Greenleaf Classics, 1967Part FiveThe World Spl Open: Life and Lerature After StonewallMarc Miller, Gay Revolutn, Pleasure Rear, 1969Bce Benrson, Kyle, Csier Classics, 1975Victor Jay, The Gay Hnt, Traveller's Compann, 1970John Ironstone, Gay Rights, El Dorado Edns, 1978Appendix: Gay Novels, 1940-1969Biblgraphy.
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Augt“Notg rearch that clud readg 'jt over 225 novels, ' cultural cric Bronski (The Pleasure Prciple) lightfully chronicl gay pulp novels om their emergence the late 1940s through the post-Stonewall era this expansive, exhstively rearched amalgam of fictn and gay history. In the earlit novels, homosexual characters were often drawn as angst-ridn men livg hiaway liv.
The d tal gave way to the more outrageo and sexually trepid plot l of the 1950s and early '60s as gay male pulps gaed momentum--typil is a locker-room fantasy scene om Jay Ltle's Maybe--Tomorrow. Richard Amory's lh The Song of the Loon was a landmark tle, s lerary aspiratns pla, while other tl of the era--racy fictns like Jack Love's Gay Whore, a melodrama set on Fire Island, and the psdonymo Memoirs of Jeff X--were willg to settle for beg 'extraordarily profable.
' The gay revolutn unleashed by the Stonewall rts is boldly evint excerpts by Marc Miller (om Gay Revolutn), and a selectn om Bce Benrson's 1975 erotic potboiler, Kyle. 384 reviews148 followersMay 21, 2013A very readable anthology, cricism, and biblgraphy of nearly unknown works of gay lerature om 1940-1970s.