Beach Bums & Bulges...Thursday, 11 June 2009
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Today we take a look at
Gay Pulp Fiction
of the 1950's and 1960's
Adult Novels of Men in the Womanless World
Gay pulps offer a fascinating glimpse into gay culture of the 1950s and 1960s,
Probably the largest body of overtly gay writings of the time and cannot be ignored.
Gay exploitation titles first started appearing in the 1950s, taking advantage of growing postwar gay visibility.
The number of pulps, including gay friendly titles, exploded in the 1960s for a variety of reasons.

Besides the increasing visibility, the courts also played a major role in changing the style of pulps being written.


While not the only case, Grove Press had been defending William S. Burrough's novel Naked Lunch against charges of obscenity since the early 60s, and when the Massachusetts Supreme Court declared it not obscene in 1966, a virtual deluge of pulps followed.
















































