Gay anthology
Today on the site I&#;m delighted to offer a peek inside one of the best-named gender non-conforming anthologies of all time, Be Homosexual, Do Crime ed. by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley, which releases June 3rd from Dzanc Books! Here&#;s the gist:
A follow-up to their runaway triumph Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Carry out Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi
A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she&#;s had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A collective of aging queers turns to bank robbery to discontinue the sale of their bungalow complex to a growth company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to take a photo him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a gentle of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.
In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, B
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The My Comrade Anthology collects pages from past issues of My Comrade selected by Linda Simpson, printed in a substantial page volume on newsprint.
My Comrade was an underground homosexual culture zine that place itself apart from the deluge of Xeroxed zines popping up in Fresh York in the overdue s and early s. Through parody of both mainstream tabloid magazines and the self-serious gay squeeze, a campy and ironic sensibility, and radical left sympathies and sloganeering, My Comrade captured the zeitgeist of the gay downtown scene. Publishing 11 issues between and , and three issues since, My Comrade documents the last years of underground male lover culture before marriage equality and representation at elite levels of American world became the primary drivers of gay politics and aesthetic production. My Comrade was briefly revived from to , and again on the occasion of the exhibition “My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Same-sex attracted Anniversary” at Howl! in
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In the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression. In a variety of styles and genres, same-sex attracted men have increasingly begun to articulate their sexual identities. At the same time, gay writers and scholars have begun in earnest the search for a literary history long denied by the refusal to recognize queer love as an integral part of Western literature. Yet to date, no single volume has brought together the full range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that portray love between men.
From the Epic of Gilgamesh to the poems of Allen Ginsberg and gay literature of the s and '90s, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature draws together hundreds of texts from Western literary history that describe experiences of love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex among men. While other anthologies acquire focused primarily on poetry, drama, or fiction, this volume is the first to include a full range of ge
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