Pulp Friction Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps [Paperback]

Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring, mostly between the covers of the cheaply produced pulp paperbacks of the post-World War II era. Cultural critic Michael Bronski collects a sampling of these now little-known gay erotic writingssome by writers long forgotten, some never known and a few now famous. Through them, Bronski challenges many long-held views of American postwar fiction and the rise of gay literature, as well as of the culture at large.

Michael Bronskiis the author ofCulture Clash: The Making of Gay SensibilityandThe Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom.He has edited and contributed to many anthologies, has had essays published throughout the world, and teaches and lectures widely. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One
Mainstream Fiction: Not Particularly Hiding in the Shadows

Harrison Dowd
The Night Air
Dial Press, 1950

Lonnie Coleman
Sam
David McKay, 1959

Part Two
The New Gay Novel: Happier Homos and Happier Endings

James Barr
Spurr Piece fromDerricks
Greenberg, 1951

Jay Little
MaybeTomorrow
Pageant Press, 1952

Part Three
Truly Pulp: Gay Life in the Shadows

Michael De Forrest
The Gay Year
Woodford Press, 1949

Vin Packer (Marijane Meaker)
Whisper His Sin
Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1954

Ben Travis
The Strange Ones
Beacon Book, 1959

James Colton (Joseph Hansen)
Lost on Twilight Road
National Library, 1964

Jeff X
The Memoirs of Jeff X
Zil, 1968

Part Four
Out of the Twilight World: The Sexual Revolution Goes Lavender

The Boys of Muscle Beach

qlGuild Press, 1969 (reprint from the 1950s)

Richard Amory
Sl'