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![]() ![]() Pai Hsien-yung Translated from Chinese by Howard Goldblatt ![]() $18.95 paperback (0-940567-11-3) $25.00 hardcover (0-940567-10-4) ![]() This is the first modern Chinese novel on gay themes -- a moving story of teenage boys in Taiwan, rejected by their families and forced onto the streets as hustlers. ![]() ![]() |
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OUT OF THE BLUE: Russia's Hidden Gay Literature ![]() Edited by Kevin Moss. ![]() $19.95 paperback (0-940567-20-2), 416 pp. $50.00 limited hardcover in dustjacket (0-940567-19-9) ![]() RUSSIA COMES OUT For 70 years, Soviet culture's pervasive censorship, homophobia and criminalization made taboo any mention of homosexuality or sex between men. Even during the last decade, until the repeal of Russia's Article 121 in 1993, studying gay topics was potentially dangerous. |
The invisibility of gay-themed writings has been so great that, if asked where to look for gay themes in Russian literature, most non-specialists today would probably exhaust their knowledge by pointing to Mikhail Kuzmin, the openly gay poet of the early 20th century (such as his marvelous gay poem "Antinous") and author of the first gay novel in Russian, Wings. However, censorship and criminalization do not invisibility make, forever.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For more information on Out of the Blue, including excerpts and photos, go to the website of editor Kevin Moss. |
PARTINGS AT DAWN An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature ![]() Edited by Stephen Miller. ![]() $19.95 paperback (0-940567-18-0) 352 pp. $50.00 limited hardcover in dustjacket (9-940567-17-2) ![]() 800 years of Japanese gay writing are included in this illustrated in-depth collection--from the loves of the samurai to 20th century writers such as Yukio Mishima, Mutsuo Takahashi. Entirely in English translation. ![]() ![]() --The Journal of Asian Studies |
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![]() ![]() ![]() --Monumenta Nipponica (Journal on Japanese culture), Sophia University, Tokyo. |
SEX BEHIND BARS: A Novella, Short Stories & True Accounts ![]() Robert N. Boyd ![]() $14.95 paper (0-917342-37-2), 240 pp. "I am a convict serving time, and what I have to say about sexual activity in prison is based on my personal involvement with the young men whose stories I am telling." So writes Robert N. Boyd from his prison cell in Nevada. This is a gripping collection of his true personal accounts and fiction pieces. |
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PRETTY BOY DEAD ![]() Novel by Joseph Hansen ![]() $14.95 paper (0-917342-48-8), 208 pp. ![]() Scorned by his family, defeated by society, Steve turned to pretty boy Coy Randol for love and support. But then Coy was found brutally murdered and Steve was the chief suspect. ![]() --The New Yorker ![]() --New York Times |
MY DEEP DARK PAIN IS LOVE: A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction ![]() Edited by Winston Leyland; Translated by E. A. Lacey ![]() $14.95 paper (0-917342-03-3) ![]() Fiction on gay themes by 24 writers from Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina and Chile. The 30 selections in this 400 page anthology include superb work by gifted writers Mario de Andrade, Manuel Puig, Reinaldo Arenas, Anibal Machado, Luis Zapata and others. ![]() |
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BOM-CRIOULO ![]() Adolfo Caminha; Translated from Portuguese by E.A. Lacey ![]() $35.00 hardcover (9-917342-89-5) ![]() Classic Brazilian novel relating in naturalistic style the overt sexual relationship between a black sailor and a cabin boy in the late 19th century Brazilian navy. "A truly revolutionary work: revolutionary in its denunciation of slavery, sadism, cruelty and man's exploitation of man; revolutionary in its startling attitudes towards homosexuality, towards race, towards interracial and interage contacts ... its message echoes beyond our time..." |
![]() ![]() Luis Zapata; Translated from Spanish by Edward A. Lacey ![]() $19.95 hardcover (0-917342-79-8), 208 pp. Adonis Garcia is a hustler who plies his trade in the streets and meeting places of Mexico City. His picaresque adventures in the Mexican gay sub-culture (which has its own rich slang) are detailed in this prize-winning novel translated into English for the first time. ![]() |
TELENY ![]() Attributed to Oscar Wilde ![]() $14.95 paper (0-917342-33-X), 184 pp. $25.00 hardcover (0-917342-32-1) This brilliant erotic novel tells of the love affair between two men in Victorian England -- handsome, 24-year-old pianist Rene Teleny, and a young bon-vivant, Camille Des Grieux. This unexpurgated edition, is based on the original manuscript and the 1893 text. An in-depth introduction by editor Winston Leyland puts the novel in historical and literary perspective and presents the arguments in favor of Oscar Wilde's involvement in the work. |
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FOR MORE ON OSCAR: Bosie, Oscar's Lover Photographs of Oscar Wilde Listen to Oscar's Voice (fun site) Oscar's Writings on line Monty Python's Oscar Wilde Sketch (great fun!) |
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NAKED TO THE NIGHT ![]() Novel by K.B. Raul ![]() $10.00 paper (0-917342-20-8), 176 pp. ![]() This is the graphic story of Rick Talbot, the quintessential hustler, who sells his body across America -- from the meat racks of Times Square to the glittering world of Hollywood. Physically endowed and stunningly handsome, Rick is driven by a compulsive desire to achieve fame and success. This novel went through three printings within one year of its publication in 1964 and became one of the most discussed novels on gay themes within that decade. |
![]() An Affair of the Misty City ![]() Charles Warren Stoddard ![]() $14.95 paperback (0-940567-05-9) $25.00 hardcover (0-940567-04-0) 160 pp. ![]() This is an autobiographical novel by California writer, Charles Warren Stoddard (1832-1909). It tells the story of Paul Clitheroe's unsuccessful bout of writing, acting and love in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and his eventual escape into the arms of three naked South Sea Islanders. First published in San Francisco in 1903 and long out-of-print, this edition brings to the present day reader a re-issue of what may be termed the first relatively open American novel with homosexual themes. |
![]() ![]() Robin Maugham ![]() $10.00 paperback (0-917342-26-7), 160 pp. ![]() Two lost soldiers stumble on each other in the desert after a tank battle. English and German, their first instinct is to take the other prisoner, but as their main preoccupation is survival, this is clearly not possible. The book traces their subsequent relationship. Robin Maugham (1916-1981), nephew of the famous Somerset Maugham, is an accomplished writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
GAY FICTION ANTHOLOGY
![]() Edited by Winston Leyland ![]() $19.95 hardcover (0-917342-00-3), 192 pp. ![]() A large collection of gay fiction & non-fiction, including: --nine short stories by contemporary American writers, Among them the poignant "Das Blassrote Dreieck," set in a Nazi concentration camp. --the first English translation of Paul Verlaine's gay story. "A Draw" in its original longer version. --"Act and Betrayal," a two-act play by John Stuart Anderson, about a gay medieval Spanish king. --a new diary by Pulitzer prize winning composer Ned Rorem. |
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