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Many of these publishers had their roots in publishing beefcake, or "male physique" magazines in the 1950s, precursors to explicit gay pornographic magazines. 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. censorship laws applied to literary novels such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Portnoy's Complaint, and Naked Lunch had redefined legal standards for obscenity. 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." Beginnings of sexually explicit gay pulp īeginning around 1964, the more than a decade of challenges to U.S.
The cover of the book features a discreetly posed nude man, on his knees in a prison cell, being beaten by two prison guards. 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. Viereck, a poet, was sent to prison during World War II for his work as a paid propaganda agent of Nazi Germany. The first paperback original to deal with homosexuality was 1952's Men into Beasts, a nonfiction work by George Viereck. Likewise, Blair Niles' 1931 novel Strange Brother appeared in paperback in 1952.įirst original gay pulp paperback
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.
Still, some gay pulps were published by mainstream publishers throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. There was no burgeoning market for gay male novels in the 1950s because they apparently had little crossover appeal for a substantial heterosexual readership." According to Bronski, "The trajectory of the gay male pulps is very different. 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. 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.
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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." 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. These are Glamour’s most anticipated books to read in the year ahead.Many early gay pulps were reissues of literary novels with gay themes, such as this 1958 Pyramid Books edition of Never the Same Again. Get excited: The 2022 book releases are coming. Go ahead, spam your bookclub group text with arguments for why your novels to read this year should include literary fiction about an octopus ( Remarkably Bright Creatures, May) or a novel about obsessive female friendship set in early 2000s Berlin ( Other People’s Clothes, February) or the book about a mixed-race vampire who can’t stop watching mukbang videos ( Woman, Eating, April.)
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