Gay pulp fiction

Lesbian & Gay Pulp Fiction

The Drewey Wayne Gunn and Jacques Murat Collection of Gay American Pulps and the Drewey Wayne Gunn Collection of Gay Male Mysteries and Police Stories are made up primarily of books printed by low-budget publishers in the post-Stonewall era (after ). The pulp novels, mostly from the s, are often pornographic explorations of gay male desires.

Many titles celebrate young men discovering their sexuality. Prevalent themes include enjoying queer relationships without fear, coming out with pride, discovery love, creating families and communities, and fighting oppression. Countering these positive themes, pulps also titilate readers by depicting police willing to use their control to sexually abuse defenseless men and boys.

In an effort to pass the Supreme Court's new standards, introductions in a number of these books talk about how that particular novel fits within the historical context of homosexuality and why the title is a necessary step in dismantling "sexual repression." There are currently titles in our gay American pulps collection which has been suppleme

Gay Pulp Fiction (12 results)

Near Fine in publishers decorated wrappers. 1st edition. Hollywood, Thursday 24 September - the star-studded West Coast premiere of The Robe, the world's first Cinemascope epic, lights up Hollywood with searchlights and glamour. Far from the bright lights, in a run-down apartment in West Los Angeles, private investigator and studio fixer Rick Barker finds a victim of brutal murder. Meanwhile in downtown L.A., a Greyhound bus delivers troubled teenager Zeke Candy to Tinseltown, where he hopes to make it in pictures. As the production industry launches a fight-back against the onslaught of TV, the City of Angels, where anything goes and dog eats mutt in the quest for fame and riches, reveals its true nature: little Zeke is soon plunged into a maelstrom of exploitation and corruption where his only asset is to be sexy meat for movie moguls, stars, and has-beens, traded by unscrupulous fixers out for an easy buck. ISBN

LGBTQ+ Resources in Extraordinary Collections

Gay pulp fiction has become a focus of scholarship in the last years. Titles may be located in Special Collections, in Main, or in the Fine Arts Library.

s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage. Drewey Wayne Gunn and Jaime Harker. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Flatten, (Main)
The Golden Age of Gay Fiction. Drewey Wayne Gunn. Albion, NY: MLR Press, (Main)
Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Lgbtq+ Pulps. Ian Childish. Albany, NY: MLR Press, (SPC)
Out/lines: Underground Gay Graphics from before Stonewall. Thomas Waugh. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, (SPC, Fine Arts)
Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Queer Male Pulps. Michael Bronski. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, (SPC, Main)
Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback. Susan Stryker. San Francisco: Chronicle, (SPC, Main)
Strange Sisters: The Art of Woman loving woman Pulp Fiction, . Jaye Zimet; foreword by Ann Bannon. New York: Viking Studio,

Gay Pulp Fiction

The Gay Pulp Fiction Collection consists of over 1, fictions titles in mass market paperback form on male lgbtq+ and bisexual themes, published from the 's through the 's. It was acquired by the Fisher Library in from collector Ian Young, who used the collection for research for his books The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography and Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps.

Writers represented in the collection range from Richard Amory to Oscar Wilde, with cover art by artists as diverse as Tom of Finland and Ronald Searle. The explore potential for this collection is vast, and runs across multiple disciplines: sexual diversity studies, the history of publishing, graphic blueprint, as well as social and cultural history.

While approximately individual titles of the collection are fully catalogued and in the online catalogue, the rest are in an annotated and searchable list created by Young.