Reading Beyond the Closet: The Gay Pulp Tradition and Reader Advisory.

Guide to Contemporary GLBTQ Literature for Reader Advisory. Mike Rigby, Gay Icons, 2013. Icons, Gay Rigby, Mike ! ! ! ! This is a short guide to current trends and titles in GLBTQ literature. This guide is meant to supplement and aide in reader advisory around the topic of the gay pulp tradition. Categories include: Gay Pulps (reprints) Fiction Non-Fiction ! ! Guide prepared by: Matt J. Rohweder BA, MA, PhD (ABD)

!1 ! Pulps - In Reprint. Richard Amory, Song of the Loon (1966). Reprint, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005. • Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar (1948). Reprint Vintage, 2003. , the Series. Reprint, Cleis Press. 2002-2006. Odd Girl Out (1957) (1959) Woman in the Shadows (1959) Journey to a Woman (1960) Beebo Brinker (1962) Fritz Peters, Finistere (1951). Reprint, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006. Valerie Taylor, Whisper Their Love (1957). Reprint, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006 Victor J. Banis (published under Don Holliday), The Man From C.A.M.P. (1966). Reprint, MLR Press, 2008. N.B. This reprint is an anthology of most of the Man from C.A.M.P. novels. James Barr, Quatrefoil (1950). Reprint, Alyson Books, 1982. Two Essential Anthologies: Michael Bronski, Pulp Friction: The Golden Age of the Gay Male Pulp. St. Martin’s Press, 2006. Katherine V. Forrest, : The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965. Cleis Press, 2005 ! Fiction - By Genre. Gay literature covers a wide range of genres - from romance, to historical fiction to urban vampire novels. Yet what each of these genres seem to all involve is some element of romance. In nearly every title presented here, the narrative involves the generic plot line of boy (or girl) meets boy (or girl), they fall in love, then out of love, in love again, out of love again…sometimes this involves finding out the boy (or girl) is a vampire or werewolf or ghost…and then they fall in love again. Keep in mind, that this is a short list of titles and therefore not exhaustive. There are literally hundreds of titles and series to chose from and I encourage you to explore these genres on your own as you start recommending titles to patrons. !

!2 Romance. • Abigal Roux, Cut & Run. Dreamspinner Press, 2008 • R. J. Scott, The Heart of Texas. Silver Publishing, 2011. • Ryan Loveless, Ethan, Who Loved Carter. Dreamspinner Press, 2011. • M. Jules Aedin, Paper Planes. Loose ID, 2012. • Sean Kenney, Tigers and Devils. Dreamspinner Press, 2009. • J.L. Merrow, Muscling Through. Samhain Press, 2011. • J.L. Langley, His Convenient Husband. Samhain Press, 2009. • T. Fabris, Latter Days. Alyson Books, 2004. • Orland Outland, Different People. Alyson Books, 2003. • Louis Bayard, Fool’s Errand. Alyson Books, 2000. • Shira Anthony, The Melody Thief. Dreamspinner Press, 2011. • Steve Kluger, Almost Like Being in Love. William Morrow Paperbacks, 2004. • Jay Bell. Something Like Summer. Smashwords, 2010. • T.J. Klune. Who We Are. Dreamspinner Press, 2012. • T.J Klumer, Bear, Otter, and the Kid. Dreamspinner, 2010. ! Mystery/Crime/Thriller • Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows. MLR Press, 2000 (rpt 2007) • Laura Baumbach, Mexican Heat. MLR Press, 2008. • E. Anderson, The Assignment. Loose ID, 2008. • Anthony Bidulka. The Russel Quant Series. Insomniac Press, 2003-2013. • Mark Richard Zubro. Political Poison. St. Martin’s Press, 1993. • John Morgan Wilson, Simple Justice. Bold Strokes, 2008. • Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls. Pan Books, 2000. ! Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror (including Vampires) • Rachel Haimowitz, Counter Point. Riptide Publishing, 2011. • Josh Lanyon, The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks. Loose Id, 2008. • Jordan Castillo Price, Criss Cross. JCP Books, 2008. • Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell. Blind Eye Books, 2010. • Jourdan Lane, Bound by Blood. Torquere Press, 2006 • Christian Baines, The Beast Without. Glass House Books, 2013. • J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart. eBooks, 2012.

!3 • B.D. Heywood, Eternal Samurai. ICINI Publishing, 2012. • Ethan Day, At Piper’s Point. Wilde City Press, 2013 • Victor J. Banis, Angel Land. Quest, 2008. • Steve Berman, Vintage: A Ghost Story. Harrington Park Press, 2007. ! Westerns • Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain. Scribners. 1999 and reprinted in 2005. • Jesse Hajicek, The God Eaters. Lulu Press, 2006. • Michael Jensen, Frontiers. Gallery Books, 2000. ! Historical • Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago Press, 2010. • Alan Hollinghurt, The Line of Beauty. Bloomsbury, 2004. • Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance. Harper, 1978 (reprint. 2001) • Harper Fox, Brothers of the Wild North Sea. Samhain Publishing, 2013. • Brett Josef Grubisic. The Age of Cities. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006. • Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco. Picador, 2006. ! Urban Fiction. • Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City. Harper, 1978. • Zoe Whitall, Holding Still for as Long as Possible. Anansi, 2009. • Edmund White. A boy’s own story. Vintage, 1982 (reprint 2000). • John Rechy, City of Night. Grove Press, 1994. • David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes. Bloomsbury, 1986 (reprint 2005) ! Non-Fiction - By Genre. The short list of titles provided are primarily concerned with the pre-Stonewall era, thus giving real stories similar to those found in the pulps. The majority of these titles either are by significant persons from the pre and post-Stonewall era, or they are monographs or collections of essays reflecting on that period. These titles might be of more interest to patrons who do not want novels similar to the pulps, but are more interested in the communities and cultures that created the pulps.

!4 ! ! Biography/Memoir. • Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ‘70s. Bloomsbury, 2009. • Paul Monette. Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story. Harper, 1992. (reprint 2004). • Andrew Tobias, The Best Little Boy in the World. Ballantine Books, 1977 (reprint 1993). • Justin Spring. Secret History: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010. • Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. • Alan Helms, Young Man from the Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall. University of Minnesota Press, 2003. • Quentin Crips, The Naked Civil Servant. Penguin, 1968 (reprint 1997). • Felice Picano, Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall. Basic Books, 2007. • John D’Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. University of Chicago Press, 2004 ! Popular Culture/History/Gay Lives. • Vito Russo. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. It Books, 1987. • George Chauncey. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940. Basic Books, 1995. • Andrea Weiss. Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community. Naiad Press, 1988. • Martin Duberman, Stonewall. Plume Press, 1994. • David Cater, Stonewall: The Riots that Started the Gay Revolution. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005. • Thomas Waugh, Out/Lines: Gay Underground Erotic Graphics from Before Stonewall. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002. • Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America. Twelve, 2012. ! ! !

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