Gay pulp fiction, or gay pulps, refers to printed works, primarily fiction, that include references to male homosexuality, specifically male gay sex, and that are cheaply produced, typically in paperback books made of wood pulp paper; lesbian pulp fiction is similar work about women. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. Human sexual behavior or different human sexual practices encompass a wide range of activities such as strategies to find or attract partners ( Mating and display Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. Lesbian pulp fiction refers to any mid-20th century pulp novel with overtly Lesbian themes and content Michael Bronski, the editor of an anthology of gay pulp writing, notes in his introduction, "Gay pulp is not an exact term, and it is used somewhat loosely to refer to a variety of books that had very different origins and markets"^[1] People often use the term to refer to the "classic" gay pulps that were produced before about 1970, but it may also be used to refer to the gay erotica or pornography in paperback book or digest magazine form produced since that date. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Beginning of gay pulps 2 First original gay pulp paperback 3 Beginnings of sexually explicit gay pulp 4 Major writers 5 References 6 Further reading

Beginning of gay pulps

Gay pulps are part of the expansion of cheap paperback books that began in the 1930s and "reached its full force in the early 1950s. "^[2] Mainstream publishers packaged the cheap paperbacks to be sold in train and bus stations, dimestores, drugstores, grocery stores, and newsstands, to reach the market that had bought pulp magazines in the first half of the twentieth century. A grocery store is a store established primarily for the Retailing of Food. A newsagent ( British English) newsagency ( Australian English) or newsstand ( American English) is often a small business that sells Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps" were inexpensive Fiction magazines Designed to catch the eye, the paperback books featured vivid cover art and often dealt with taboo subjects: prostitution, rape, interracial romances, lesbianism, and male homosexuality. Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. Rape, also referred to as Sexual assault, is an Assault by a person involving Sexual intercourse with or Sexual penetration of another person Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind" is the mixing of different racial groups, that is marrying, cohabiting A lesbian is a Woman who is romantically or sexually attracted only to other women Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. Michael Bronski has noted that lesbian pulp fiction were far more numerous and popular than those that dealt with male homosexuality; he attributes this difference to the fact that while both lesbian and heterosexual women read the lesbian pulps, a major part of the market for these novels was heterosexual men. Lesbian pulp fiction refers to any mid-20th century pulp novel with overtly Lesbian themes and content According to Bronski, "The trajectory of the gay male pulps is very different. There was no burgeoning market for gay male novels in the 1950s because they apparently had little crossover appeal for a substantial heterosexual readership. "^[3]

Still, some gay pulps were published by mainstream publishers throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. These were often reprints of literary novels that involved references to homosexuality, such as Charles Jackson's 1946 novel, The Fall of Valor, and Gore Vidal's 1948 novel, The City and the Pillar, which first appeared in paperback in 1950. Charles R Jackson, Charles Reginald Jackson (1902-1968 was an American author best known for his 1944 novel The Lost Weekend. Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925 ˌgɔər vɪˈdɑːl or /vɪˈdæl/ is an American Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright, The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer and essayist Gore Vidal written in 1946 and published on January 10 1948 Likewise, Blair Niles' 1931 novel Strange Brother appeared in paperback in 1952. Blair Niles (1880 - 1959 was an American novelist and travel writer Strange Brother is a Gay novel written by Blair Niles published in 1931

First original gay pulp paperback

The first paperback original to deal with homosexuality was 1952's Men into Beasts, a nonfiction work by George Viereck. George Sylvester Viereck ( December 31 1884 in Munich, died March 18 1962) was a German - American Poet Viereck, a poet, was sent to prison during World War II for his work as a paid propaganda agent of Nazi Germany. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Men into Beasts is a general memoir of the indignities and brutalities of life in prison, but a significant part of it deals with situational homosexuality and male rape in prison. Situational sexual behavior is sexual behavior of a kind that is different from what is usual for that person (or from what that person normally exhibits due to a social ^[4] The cover of the book features a discreetly-posed nude man, on his knees in a prison cell, being beaten by two prison guards. The text on the back of the book blames prison riots on "homosexual slavery--inmates being forced to practice abnormal acts with sex deviates who roamed the prisons at will. "^[5]

Beginnings of sexually explicit gay pulp

Beginning around 1964, the more than a decade of challenges to U. S. censorship laws applied to literary novels such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Portnoy's Complaint, and Naked Lunch had redefined legal standards for obscenity. Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor Lady Chatterley's Lover is a Novel by D H Lawrence written in 1928 Portnoy's Complaint (1969 is American writer Philip Roth 's most popular novel with many of its characteristics (comedic prose themes of sexual desire and Sexual Naked Lunch (sometimes referred to as The Naked Lunch) is a novel by William S ^[6] Susan Stryker cites Tom Norman's bibliography of American gay erotic paperbacks to note that thirty gay paperback books were published in 1965, and that over a hundred were in 1966. Many of these publishers had their roots in publishing beefcake, or "male physique" magazines in the 1950s, precursors to explicit gay pornographic magazines. Beefcake is a term denoting the use of nude or semi-nude male bodies Pornographic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines, sex magazines, top-shelf magazines, blue books, or stick mags are ^[7]

Most of the new gay paperbacks were explicitly pornographic, writing designed to provoke sexual responses, rather than literary writing, and they came from small, gay presses, such as the Guild Press, Greenleaf Classics, and the Publisher's Export Company, rather than from mainstream national publishers. For example, Greenleaf (under editor Earl Kemp) published a series of erotic spy parodies called The Man from C.A.M.P., written by Victor J. Banis. Earl Kemp (born 1929 is an American Science fiction editor critic and fan who won a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1961 for Who Killed Science Fiction The Man from CAMP is a series of ten Gay pulp fiction novels published under the pseudonym of Don Holliday Victor J Banis (b 1937) is a prolific American Author, often associated with the first wave of west coast Gay writing Banis says once Kemp and Greenleaf proved how much of a market there was for this type of fiction, other publishers soon joined in. ^[8]

Among "the more provocative titles and noms de plume" published in this decade include: Summer in Sodom, by Edwin Fey; Gay Whore, by Jack Love; Hollywood Homo, by Michael Starr; The Short Happy Sex Life of Stud Sorell, by Orlando Paris; It's a Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay World, by Guy Faulk; Gay on the Range, by Dick Dale; Queer Belles, by Percy Queen; and Gay Pals, by Peter Grande. Howard, John. Men Like That: A Southern Queer History. The University of Chicago Press, 1999. ^[9]

Major writers

Some of the titles issued by these presses in the late 1960s blurred the lines between literary gay fiction and pornography. While all of them include more explicit sexual content than literary novels or mainstream, non-sexual paperback fiction (Westerns, romances, etc. ) of the time, some aspired to higher literary merit and include attempts at more careful characterizations, settings, and plots. Susan Stryker cites in this category Chris Davidson and Richard Amory, who both wrote for Greenleaf Classics. Davidson put gay porn twists on familiar genres: A Different Drum features sex between Yankee and Confederate soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, Go Down, Aaron has a Jew subjected to sex sadism in the Third Reich, and Caves of Iron is about prison sex. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Richard Amory, meanwhile, in the Song of the Loon has a Last of the Mohicans-type story, but with the lone frontiersman and the Indians having sex. The Last of the Mohicans is a Historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826 ^[10] Gay historian John Howard has identified Carl Corley as a similar writer of pulp pornography that was "more sober, more earnest," and that was usually set in Corley's native American South. Carl V Corley (1921-living is an author and illustrator Beginning in the 1950s he drew Physique art for male Beefcake magazines and for sale as posters The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive ^[11] Victor J. Banis wrote a gay detective series, The Man From C.A.M.P., whose novels features Jackie Holmes as a gay international superspy. Victor J Banis (b 1937) is a prolific American Author, often associated with the first wave of west coast Gay writing The Man from CAMP is a series of ten Gay pulp fiction novels published under the pseudonym of Don Holliday This series turns the popular, conventional spy-genre novel on its head. ^[12]

References

Further reading

• The Loon Society, devoted to the works of Richard Amory. [1]
• Norman, Tom. American Gay Erotic Paperbacks: A Bibliography. Burbank, California: by the author, 1994.
• Young, Ian. The Paperback Explosion: How Gay Paperbacks Changed America (online, with illustrations)
• Gay On The Range: An archive of gay paperback artwork from the 50's and 60's (accessed December 4, 2007) [[2]]
• Conquering the Demon Within: The History of GLBT Horror Pulps [online, with illustrations]

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