Gay pulp fiction books

Gay Pulp Fiction

The Gay Pulp Fiction Collection consists of over 1, fictions titles in mass market paperback form on male homosexual 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 verb 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 research potential for this collection is vast, and runs across multiple disciplines: sexual diversity studies, the history of publishing, graphic design, 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.

 

 

 

Gay Pulp Fiction


A growing collection of over 4, volumes of gay men's pulp fiction. They range in date from with the bulk published during A small number of lesbian-interest titles are included. The collection began with the acquisition of a large private collection and has been supplemented with various purchases and gifts by works from two other collections of gay literature, the Scott O'Hara Papers, and the James Jackson bequest. See searchable database. Stored off-site.

Format(s): Books
Library:John Hay
NOTE: This collection is housed off-site. Prior notice is needed for retrieval
Contact(s):heather_cole@
Access to the collection:

Online Catalog (BruKnow):
General description of the collection available on BruKnow

Other Online Access:
Digital Collection: Gay pulp fiction database

Related Collections:
Katzoff (Richard G.) Collection



LGBTQ+ Resources in Special 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 Urge , (Main)
  • The Golden Age of Gay Fiction. Drewey Wayne Gunn. Albion, NY: MLR Press, (Main)
  • Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps. Ian Immature. Albany, NY: MLR Apply pressure, (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 Gay Male Pulps. Michael Bronski. Novel 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 Lesbian Pulp Fiction, . Jaye Zimet; foreword by Ann Bannon. New York: Viking Studio,

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 movie industry launches a fight-back against the onslaught of TV, the City of Angels, where anything goes and dog eats pup in the quest for fame and riches, reveals its true nature: fresh 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