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needed, and applicable, today. 1 From The Queer Sixties. Patricia Juliana Smith, ed. New York: Routledge, 1999. 2 Bronski, Michael. Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003.

Thomas Hal Phillips’ The Bitterweed Path (1949) looked at a complicated erotic relationship between a father and son and a third man; Paul Goodman’s Parents Day (1951) examined the relationship of a married man with a student at a private school; Gerald Tesch’s Never the Same Again (1956) was a sympathetic account of an affair between a thirteen-ye

The stories of the participants make it clear that it marked the convergence of homophile-era activism with the energy and vision of the civil rights, antiwar, and counterculture movements that were transforming the country.

Isn’t every minority group fucked over by the values of the majority culture?

homosexuals were easy prey for communists,

Fritz Peters’ Finistère, as well as many of the fine books from the 1950s and even the early 1960s – James Barr’s Quatrefoil (1950), Russell Thacher’s The Tender Age (1954), James Yaffe’s Nothing But the Night (1957) – might fall into this category. This is all rather odd, since if there is one thing we can see in many of Amory’s writings about lit

No one before Harry Hay had articulated those words—that homosexuals were “an oppressed cultural minority.”

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