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Contents:
- GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
- VTAGE GAY FICTN
- PASSNS UNVERED: GAY, LBIAN AND TRANSGENRED PULPS
- VTAGE GAY PULP PAPERBACKS
GAY PULP FICTN - VTAGE
* gay pulp art vintage *
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.
VTAGE GAY FICTN
An exhibn of selected book vers om gay, lbian and transgenr themed vtage paperbacks. * gay pulp art vintage *
Gay pulp novels have been around sce the 1930s when the sale of paperback books proliferated.
PASSNS UNVERED: GAY, LBIAN AND TRANSGENRED PULPS
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 PULP PAPERBACKS
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”. 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.