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It’s rare to fd queer fictn like this om the early 2000s — there is almost no queer sufferg or homophobia, and Ricky and G-man’s relatnship is steadfast and lovg, wh only a few angsty scen. The ma character, Dari, don’t e the word, but ’s obv that he knows he’s gay and he’s simply not ready to talk about .

In honor of LGBTQ History Month, celebrated every October, here are books that aim to shed light on and clarify signifint historil moments that rmed and shaped the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights movement. "The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle" by Lillian FarmanA thorough troductn to the history of the gay and lbian civil rights movements, this book chronicl the early stggl of LGBTQ dividuals om the 1950s to prent day g a pilatn of enlighteng terviews wh policians, ary officials and members of the muny. "When We Rise: My Life the Movement" by Cleve JonThis semi-tobgraphil acunt follows Cleve Jon as he explor his inty as a gay man the 1950s, disvers a muny and a e through his mentor, Harvey Milk, and p wh the ravagg effects of the AIDS epimic.

CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE

Books shelved as history-of-homosexualy: Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by Gee Chncey, Bright... * gay books 1970s *

"Sister Outsir: Essays and Speech" by Audre LorA celebratn of tersectnaly, black lbian poet and femist Audre Lor analyz the prence of ageism, sexism, racism, classism and homophobia her own life through a llectn of lyril says and speech. "The Men wh the Pk Triangle" by Hez Heger (Used)In lurid tail, Hez Hager unfolds the te story of Josef Kohout — a man who was imprisoned a Nazi ncentratn mp for beg gay — and effectively remds the world of the torture gay dividuals suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime.

JohnsonWh the help of classified documents and terview wh ary officials, David Johnson argu that Senator Joseph McCarthy was jt as guilty of promotg anti-Communism paranoia as he was spirg polici that nsired homosexualy a threat to natnal secury. "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi" by Vo RsoPublished 1987, Rso’s analysis of the portrayal of homosexualy film has laid the foundatn for the how we evaluate LGBTQ reprentatn film today and has supported the argument that reprentatn matters. The Uned Stat of Ameri" by Eric CerviWhile many believe the fight for LGBTQ rights began at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn durg the summer of 1969, actually began wh a grassroots “homophile” movement that has been largely overlooked.

Cervi documents the work of Frank Kameny and other gay activists durg the late 1950s and ‘60s, illumatg their role layg the groundwork that would lead to the Stonewall NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram.

GAY 1960S 1979 BOOKS

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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). And to explore other mon them, trop, and ias that are mon gay pulp fictn and across non-gay pulp romance novels. 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.

1970’S GAY PULP

Gay pulps are books that were cheap novels, ually produced for a ltle over $1, that ntaed them of male and female homosexualy.

The reviewers wre how Merricks 1974 published novel The Lord Won’t Md was the steppg stone for the wave of gay novels that says, “the first homosexual novel wh a happy endg” (Gay and Lbian Review). Gay pulp fictn the 1970s clud many different topics, them, and trop that were very popular non-gay romance novels at the time.

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We, as thors, are gog to explore why the stori were so ptivatg to the gay male dience and why the pulp novels beme a signifint part of LGBTQ history (Pulp fictn). He is disgted and ashamed of what he was dog Gay-Way “I feel huiated, I feel like a real queer” (Hornsby 16-17); after havg multiple gay sexual experienc, Davy tri to rob a man who is payg to have sex wh him. So once the olr brother Hugh fds out his younger brother Carey is the lear of a gay biker gang New York Cy, he cis is time for a rnn.

In the first chapter, we are troduced to Hugh, a succsful bsman that owns the LGBTQ+ versn of Playboy magaze, properly named Gay boy. Fast forward back to the prent, Carey then fds a lover, a man who turned gay and fell for Carey after beg kidnapped and given two optns, jt him or all his goons as well. The books are perfectly tled, wh nam like Gay-Exorcist, Gay-Cise, and Gay-Psycho we have the feelg the will pture the same tone as Gay-Bikers.

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Harlan Brown, an athletic director at the School Prtt College, ns to 3 nners, Vce Matti, Jacqu LaFont, and Billy Sive, after they were expelled om the Universy of Oregon for beg gay. Durg the send race, Billy is first wh a uple of meters to go when an anti-gay radil jumps Billy shootg and killg him before he fished.

” (Warren 62) We believe this quote also really highlights a key aspect of the gay pulp genre: forbidn love.

In the book Gay-Way by Richard Hornsby, the ma character is an 18-year-old boy who, after his first gay sexual experience, mov on a whim to California and be a male prostute. In the novel Gay-Bikers, we see the heroe have a normal life pletely turned upsi down when he fds himself a romantic relatnship wh his brother, which ultimately leads to his rape.

DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ

In Gay-way and A Rose for Caar the novels we see the g-of-age trope as the protagonist experienc their first gay sexual experience.

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