Vtage gay pulp paperbacks

Contents:

• GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
• VTAGE GAY FICTN
• PASSNS UNVERED: GAY, LBIAN AND TRANSGENRED PULPS
• VTAGE GAY PULP PAPERBACKS

GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE

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. 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. The 50s was not a good time for the gay muny, much part to the gay-hatg U.

VTAGE GAY FICTN

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.

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”.

PASSNS UNVERED: GAY, LBIAN AND TRANSGENRED PULPS

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.

VTAGE GAY PULP PAPERBACKS

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? HT: Gay on the Range. Dig the awome ‘gay pulp’ paperback vers om the 1970s.