1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage

Table of Contents

– v – Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Drewey Wayne Gunn and Jaime Harker 1 Proem How to Read Gay Pulp Fiction James J. Gifford 29 Historicizing Pulp Gay Male Pulp and the Narrativization of Queer Cultural History Whitney Strub 43 “Accept Your Essential Self” The Guild Press, Identity Formation, and Gay Male Community Philip Clark 78 “Menus for Men . . . or What Have You” Consuming Gay Male Culture in Lou Rand Hogan’s The Gay Detective and The Gay Cookbook Pamela Robertson Wojcik 120 “Moonlight and Bosh and Bullshit” Phil Andros’s $tud and the Creation of a “New Gay Ethic” Ann Marie Schott 143 Carnal Matters The Alexander Goodman Story Reed Massengill 167 Guerilla Literature The Many Worlds of Victor J. Banis Randall Ivey 190 vi – Contents Shepherds Redressed Richard Amory’s Song of the Loon and the Reinvigoration of the Spanish Pastoral Novel Beth M. Bouloukos 212 “A Life Entirely without Fear” Hindus, Homos, and Gay Pulp Fiction in Christopher Isherwood’s A Meeting by the River Jaime Harker 229 Transcendent Submission Resistance to Oppression in Jay Greene’s Behind These Walls Nicholas Alexander Hayes 248 The Heroic Quest Dirk Vanden’s All Trilogy Drewey Wayne Gunn 268 An End to the Way Pulp Becomes Classic Down-Under Jeremy Fisher 292 Appendix A Sampling of 1960s Gay Pulp Authors 313 Notes on Contributors 319 Index 323 ...