Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps

A collection of gay erotic writings tracing the development of a gay identity from the late nineteenth century to after the Stonewall riots.

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 writings—some by writers long forgotten, some never known and a few now ...