By Drewey Wayne Gunn
It used to be the 1st nice explosion of homosexual writing in historical past. those books have been approximately homosexual characters. They have been written usually by means of homosexual writers. peculiarly, they have been for homosexual readers. And, as this enjoyable chronicle of the emergence of homosexual literary satisfaction makes transparent, it used to be a revolution that happened numerous years ahead of Stonewall! Their characters have been usually out or suffering to get out. The books have been certainly out -- out at the revolving paperback bookracks in grocery shops, dime shops, drugstores, journal corporations, and transportation terminals around the country for teens and senior electorate, within the towns and the agricultural parts alike, to discover and to consume. the following 19 writers take you on a journey of this Golden Age of homosexual Fiction -- approximately the interval among the 1st Kinsey record and the 1st selection of stories of the town -- taking note of touchstone novels from the interval yet, much more, highlighting works of fiction which have been left unjustly to collect dirt on literary cabinets. Written via authors, students, creditors, and one of many publishers, their essays will tell you. they'll occasionally amuse you. they're going to take you into literary corridors you simply suspected have been there. And the a few two hundred illustrations, selected for his or her old in addition to their inventive curiosity, supply a visible list of why this was once the golden age. it's assured that you're going to emerge from studying this e-book with an extended record of fine reads to request out of your favourite booksellers!
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B. Saunders, a medical printing house in Philadelphia, launched the 804-page Sexual Behavior in the Human Male on January 5. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy in his biography Kinsey records that eventually the book would sell a phenomenal two hundred seventy thousand copies. ” Because of the furor the book created, even as a preadolescent in rural North Carolina I became dimly aware of something called homosexuality. Bergman (The Violet Hour, 2004) has argued persuasively that with the Violet Quill a new generation of gay writers came into their own.
The wide availability of cheap paperback books helped spread the word about a sexuality and way of life that, until the war years, had been largely hidden from public view. Postwar paperbacks played an important role in the social and political developments of the Cold War years, and strongly reflected and influenced the emerging gay consciousness. Cheap, easily available paperbacks were as important to changing attitudes in the pre-Stonewall era as gay magazines and poetry chapbooks were in the gay liberation years that followed.
For many readers, the turning point was the novel d’Arcangelo is describing above: Song of the Loon by Richard Amory, published in 1966. Since gay scholars, for the most part, shy away from anything smacking of pornography and focus rather narrowly on texts brought out by “approved” publishing houses, the importance of this body of work, these “pulps,” remains largely unexplored. As a result, little attention has been paid to a crucial difference between most gay texts published before the early 1960s and almost all those published thereafter.
