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Episode 4: Episode Four: Gay Pulp
More Information Than You Perhaps Require
English - February 08, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBHistory Arts Books theater drunk history early modern gay Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week Ska chats about the rise and fall of 20th century gay pulp fiction. Highlights include: the strange and curious twilight world of postwar publishing; dubious butches; E.M. Forster; Ed Wood, Jr.; gay detectives; gay housemasters; gay cowboys; gay whores; gay girls; gay psychos; gay brothers; gay awakenings; Fire Island.
Reading recs:
- 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage, ed. Drewey Wayne Gunn & Jaime Harker
- Pulp Friction: Uncovering The Golden Age Of Gay Male Pulps, Michael Bronski
- Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback, Susan Stryker
- Strange Sisters. The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969, Jaye Zimet
For an extremely in-depth (and yet still not exhaustive) list of queer pulps and books determined to be of queer interests check out [the annotated index of books in the University of Toronto’s queer pulp collection drafted to accompany Ian Young’s Out In Paperback (https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/content/gay-pulp-fiction)
Recs online:
- “Gay Pulp” podcast
(https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/gaypulp)
- Arkhamlibrarian @ Twitter for all kinds of great pulp collecting sleaze (https://twitter.com/arkhamlibrarian)
- PulpCovers (https://pulpcovers.com/tag/gay/) (many more under a keyword search for “gay” or “lesbian”, though some of the covers featured under the former keyword are gay-as-in-festive)
Cocktails Imbibed:
The Anita Bryant
1.5 oz. vodka (I used the cheapest I own)
Apple juice (I used Martinelli’s)
Measure vodka into highball glass; add apple juice to top and stir.
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