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Vintage Gay Pulp Fiction Covers: The Campy Art of the “One Handers”

May 3, 2009

By LBG1

Vintage Gay Pulp Fiction Covers: Tour De Force Campy Art We’ve Come to Love

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From Pulpart.com

Part of a series on pulp fiction covers, Brooks Peters’s article, “Twisted Sisters: Gay Pulp Fiction”, details the emergence of gay pulp fiction and its “camp art”.

Called “one handers”, books to be read in “bed” or the “john”, the erotic genre of the “twilight” world of gay sex of blossomed during the 1960′s then faded with the advent of videos and “the rise of uncensored smut”. The following are just a few examples of vintage gay pulp fiction. To see more, click on the links under the photos.

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New York: Beacon, c1961.

twilight_affair-F
Manhasset, New York: Kozy Books Inc., c1963.

xbabesbehindbars
Allan Mora
Private Edition PE304
1962

xsatanwasalesbian
Fred Haley
PEC Giant G-1103
1966

By LBG

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One Response to Vintage Gay Pulp Fiction Covers: The Campy Art of the “One Handers”

pat on May 4, 2009 at 02:38

You never cease to amaze me. I am a huge pulp fiction fan.

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