Gay pulp
LGBTQ+ Resources in Unique Collections
Gay pulp fiction has become a focus of scholarship in the last 10-15 years. Titles may be located in Special Collections, in Main, or in the Satisfactory Arts Library.
- 1960s Homosexual Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage. Drewey Wayne Gunn and Jaime Harker. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. (Main)
- The Golden Age of Gay Fiction. Drewey Wayne Gunn. Albion, NY: MLR Flatten, 2009. (Main)
- Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Queer Pulps. Ian Fresh. Albany, NY: MLR Press, 2012. (SPC)
- Out/lines: Underground Gay Graphics from before Stonewall. Thomas Waugh. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Compress, 2002. (SPC, Okay Arts)
- Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps. Michael Bronski. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003. (SPC, Main)
- Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback. Susan Stryker. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2001. (SPC, Main)
- Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969. Jaye Zimet; foreword by Ann Bannon. New York: Viking Studio, 1999.
PULP FRICTION: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
Noting explore that included reading "just over 225 novels," cultural critic Bronski () delightfully chronicles gay pulp novels from their emergence in the late 1940s through the post-Stonewall era in this expansive, exhaustively researched amalgam of fiction and gay history. In the earliest novels, homosexual characters were often drawn as angst-ridden men living hideaway lives. These mild tales gave way to the more outrageous and sexually intrepid plot lines of the 1950s and early '60s as lgbtq+ male pulps gained momentum—typical is a locker-room fantasy scene from Jay Little's . As the 1960s progressed, fiction grew bolder in form and content. Richard Amory's lush was a landmark title, its literary aspirations plain, while other titles of the era—racy fictions like Jack Love's , a melodrama set on Fire Island, and the pseudonymous —were willing to settle for being "extraordinarily profitable." The same-sex attracted revolution unleashed by the Stonewall riots is boldly evident in excerpts by Marcus Miller (from ), and a selection from Bruce Benderson's 1975 erotic potboiler, .
A Deep Dive into Queer Romance
By Preston Decker & Logan Agin (2023)
Introduction
The 1970s were a significant second in LGBTQ+ history, with the Stonewall riots and the start of the gay rights movement. This period is characterized by significant change and progress for the LGBTQ+ collective. the rise of lgbtq+ pulps in the relationship industry. Before, people did not tolerate the collective as respectfully as we do now. One way the LGBTQ+ community communicated was through writing. Not letters or magazines but in novels. Gay Pulps were a form of romance novels that were written between the ’30s and the ’70s with themes of homosexuality (Bronski 3). These novels paved the way for the current genre of lgbtq+ romance. So, what is special about these novels? Mainly because they were meant to be thrown away. Books that were sold for the sole purpose of being scan in one to two sittings and then thrown in the trash. The type of novel that was so cheap to buy they were sold for pennies on the dollar. These novels were the genre of pulps. For this paper, we will look into pulp novels, specifically gay pulps published in the 1970s. The 70s was a new dawn for the gay pulp industry in l
Gay Pulp Fiction (12 results)
Near Pleasant in publishers decorated wrappers. 1st edition. Hollywood, Thursday 24 September 1953 - 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 luminous lights, in a run-down apartment in West Los Angeles, private investigator and studio fixer Rick Barker finds a victim of unfeeling 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 movie industry launches a fight-back against the onslaught of TV, the City of Angels, where anything goes and dog eats dog in the quest for fame and riches, reveals its true nature: young 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 3867878536.