The book descriptions have been generated from the index located in box 1, folder 1. Missing editions have been noted with
the notation "[no copy]." Because of errors in OCR translations, grammatical inconsistencies should be expected.
A1. ANGELS OF THE LYRE | A GAY POETRY ANTHOLOGY | Edited by Winston Leyland | Panjandrum Press Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
1975
8½ x 5½. Pp. 248. Perfect bound in glazed brown card wrappers printed in gold, black and white. Cover design by Roger Stearns.
Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley, and six illustrations by Wilton David, Czanara, Edward Aulerich, Joe Brainard, Samuel Reese,
Bruce Reifel. Published in June 1975 with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 3,000 copies
printed. $4.95. [Out of print, 1985.] Poets included in this anthology are: Hector Tito Alvarez (b. 1952). – William Barber
(b. 1946). – Bruce Boone (b. 1941). –Victor Borsa (b. 1931). – Joe Brainard (b. 1942). – Perry Brass (b. 1947). – Adrian Brooks
(b. 1947). – Ira Cohen (b. 1935). – Kirby Congdon. – Ed Cox (b. 1946). – Emilio Cubeiro (b. 1947). – Tim Dlugos (b. 1950).
– Robert Duncan (b. 1919). – David Eberly (b. 1947). – Jim Eggeling (b. c.1935). – Kenward Elmslie (b. 1929). –Daniel Evans
(b. 1944). – Gerald Fabian (b. 1924). – Salvatore Farinella (b. 1940). – Edward Field (b. 1924). – Charles Henri Ford (b.
1913). – James Giancarlo (a.k.a. Maya Desnuda; b. 1947). –Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926). – John Giorno (b. 1936). – Robert Glück
(b. 1947). – Paul Goodman (1911-1972). – Steve Jonas (1927-1970). – E. A. Lacey. – Michael Lally (b. 1942). – Gerrit Lansing
(b. 1928). – Winston Leyland (b. 1940). – Gerard Malanga (b. 1943). – Paul Mariah (b. 1937). – Wayne McNeill (b. 1953). –
Taylor Mead. – Thomas Meyer (b. 1947). – James Mitchell (b. 1940). – James Nolan (b. 1947). – Harold Norse (b. 1916). – Frank
O'Hara (1926-1966). – Chuck Ortleb (b. 1950). – Stan Persky (b. 1941). – Robert Peters (b. 1924). – Vincent Sacardi (died
1972). – Ron Schreiber (b. 1934). – Perry Scott. – Charley Shively (b. 1937). – Aaron Shurin (b. 1947). – David Emerson Smith
(b. 1945). – Jack Spicer (1925-1965). – George Stanley (b. 1934). – Richard Tagett (b. 1936). – Hunce Voelcker (b. 1940).
– John Wieners (b. 1934). – Jonathan Williams (b. 1929). – Terence Winch (b. 1945). – Ian Young (b. 1945). Forty-five of the
fifty-seven poets represented in Angels of the Lyre had work published in Gay Sunshine Journal, and many of the poems in the
book appeared originally in the Journal.
“Winston Leyland, editor of GAY SUNSHINE (a journal which for several years has published the best of Gay literature and thought),
edits the first in-depth anthology of Gay poetry, an exploration of Gay consciousness and the poetic being. There are many
dimensions to Gayness and the poetry in this book explores the subtleties of these dimensions…”
Biographical note on the editor: Winston Leyland was born in Lancashire, England, in 1940 and came to the U.S. at the age
of 12 with his parents. College studies: Philosophy, Theology (M.A. equivalent); and Medieval History at UCLA (M.A., 1970).
A1a. – Pagination and size as A1. 190 copies bound in dark blue cloth, printed in gilt on front cover, spine and back cover.
Silk head-and tail-bands. $10.00.
A1b. – As A1a. 10 copies only, not for sale, with a sticker added to p. [249]: “This edition is limited to 200 hard cover
copies of which 10 are numbered and signed by the poet/editor. This is no. -- ”.
A1c. – Second printing in April 1976. Identical with A1 except for the new publication date added to the information on p.
[4]. $4.95.
A1d. – Third printing in August 1978. Identical with A1 except for the new publication date added to the information on p.
[4] and a price increase.
An abridged 1st person narrative from the introduction to Angeles of the Lyre: "In early 1972 I began to prepare an anthology
of poetry culled from the pages of Gay Sunshine. As the work progressed I decided to expand the book to make it a comprehensive
anthology of contemporary North American (U.S. and Canada) gay male poetry. Panjandum Press, a San Francisco alternative small
press, agreed to publish the anthology jointly with Gay Sunshine… Forty-five of the fifty-seven poets in the anthology have
had work published in Gay Sunshine, and many of the poems in the present book originally appeared in our journal… All of the
poems printed here were written within the last twenty-five years—most of them within the last decade.”
A2. IN PRAISE OF BOYS | Moorish Poems from Al-Andalus | Translated by Erskine Lane | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco |
1975
9 x 6. Pp. 32. Stapled booklet; bound in orange matt card wrappers, printed in black across front and back cover and trimmed
flush. Wrapper and 3 in-text illustrations by Bill Warrick. Printed by Polycarp Press and published in November 1975. Limited
to 1,000 copies. $1.95.[Out of print, 1979.]
These translations are taken from the Spanish versions done by Emilio Garcia-Gomez that were originally published in 1930
as Poemas Arabigoandaluces.
Biographical note on the translator: “Born in the summer of 1940 in a region of the North Alabama woods known as Ballplay.
In love forever after with pine trees and summer. Survived twelve years in a white southern protestant heterosexual public
school system. Random wanderings in Europe, North, Central, and South America. B.A. and M.A. in Romance languages and literature;
a few years of experience in teaching the same. Came to Guatemala in 1973 to stay awhile.”
A2a. [no copy]– As A2. A special issue of twenty-five copies, without a limitation notice, numbered and signed by the translator.
$10.00.
A3. THE NIGHT SUN | Aaron Shurin | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco | 1976
8½ x 5½. Pp. 56. Perfect bound in blue card wrappers. Front cover illustration by Frank Holbrook, printed in dark blue, brown,
yellow and black. Frontispiece reproducing photographically a detail from a 4th century B.C. Greek vase. Photograph of author,
by Marshall, on p. [56]. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in October 1976.
1000 copies. $2.75. [Out of print, 1980.]
“These are poems of a gay man in revolution–through love and lovelessness into battle with the ‘straight/man/demon.’ They
rip the veils off history, bringing ritual transvestism into the streets, re-telling old fairy-tales, connecting homosexuality
with the ancient mysteries. Aaron Shurin's poetry hurts and heals. He turns common speech into hexes and prayers, dreaming
out of anger a new vision of feminist liberation.” Some of the poems in The Night Sun appeared previously in the following
literary periodicals: Gay Sunshine. – Fag Rag. – Hanging Loose. – Beatitude. – Magnus.
Biographical note on the author: “Aaron Shurin was born in Manhattan in 1947. He is a dropout from the University of California
in Berkeley, having left for love and to live communally in Boston/Cambridge with The Wasted Lives for Peace. He was active
there in the organizing of gay liberation and helped form The Good Gay Poets. He lives in San Francisco, working for “biological
revolution.”
A3a. – As A3. A special issue of twenty-five copies, numbered and signed by the author. $10.00.
A4. WAKING | Ed Cox | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco | 1977
9 x 6. Pp. 48. Perfect bound in cream card wrappers. Front cover drawing by Ed Aulerich in black and white, and pale blue-green.
Frontispiece, a line drawing by Jean Cocteau of Raymond Radiguet asleep in bed. Photograph of the author on p. 48 by Steve
Pardieck. Published in 1977 with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. 1,000 copies printed.
ISBN 0-917342-56-9. $2.50. [Out of print.]
These poems originally appeared in the following publications: Fag Rag, Gay People's News, Gay Sunshine, Interchange, Mass
Transit, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Washington Post and Washout Quarterly.
Biographical note on the author: “Ed Cox lives in Washington D.C., where he was born in 1946. Raised there, he attended Catholic
grade school and high school and worked as an apprentice printer before joining the Navy in 1966. In the Navy he was involved
in the peace movement as a GI organiser and continued that work in Baltimore and Washington after discharge in 1968. Since
1971 he has earned his living as a secretary working for public interest law firms and the government. He has done volunteer
work as a counselor, editor with a small poetry press collective, and organizer for gay social services. He presently conducts
a poetry workshop with older people and, with the hope of future funding, plans to expand that work while attending Goddard
College in Washington D.C., where his core project will be poetry and its relationship to social issues. His first book of
poems, Blacks, was published in 1972. His poems have been published in several poetry anthologies.”
“Some of the poems in Waking show an eager and fearful young man looking at the world and starting to touch what he sees.
Some poems are intense love poems. Ed Cox writes with such particularity about himself and what he feels that many of us will
be startled to recognise the myths of our own lives among these poems.” – Ron Schreiber.
A4a. [no copy]– As A4. A special issue of twenty-five copies, numbered and signed by the author. $10.00. [Out of print.]
A5. CARNIVOROUS SAINT | GAY POEMS 1941-1976 | by Harold Norse | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco | 1977
9 x 6. Pp. 240. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers. Front cover designed by Dian Ooka and Harold Norse, printed in yellow,
red and white on black, with a photograph of the author by Ira Cohen. Frontispiece by Debbie Earl. Collages and drawings by
the author; other illustrations by Joe Brainard, Manuel Gomez, Roger Shearns and G. Tukioka, with additional pictorial material
drawn from Jean Cocteau, the photographs of Baron von Gloeden, classical sources and erotic book illustrations. Photograph
of the author on p. 239 by Neil Hollier. Published in 1977 with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment of the
Arts. 2,000 copies printed. $5.95. [Out of print, 1981.]
"CARNIVOROUS SAINT, a pioneering work spanning 4 decades of erotic gay poems, is the first book of its kind by a major American
poet. Norse has developed his own style and vision, 'an anguished Whitman reversed, sharing something of Whitman's sense of
an encompassing vision. His energies are both Boschian and calming, wild and controlled... a first-rate talent,' writes Robert
Peters. In his rebellion against the regimentation of life and sex, Norse sees gay, bi and straight as an expression of the
basic natural force-love-thwarted and criminalized by society. These astonishing sex/love poems, full of pain and rage, often
leavened by biting humor, document a heroic struggle for honesty against hypocrisy... raw poetry of lightning power that splits
open dark areas of feeling... brutally frank... intensely alive and compassionate. 'One of the five most important poetry
books of this decade,' says Winston Leyland."
The majority of the poems included in Carnivorous Saint are unpublished, but some have been extracted from previously published
sources such as Hotel Nirvana (San Francisco: City Lights, 1974).
Biographical note on the author: "Harold Norse was born in 1916 in New York City where he was raised and, after attending
schools and universities there, spent fifteen years in self-exile wandering Europe, North Africa and the Near East. He returned
in 1968 to live on the West Coast where he edited Bastard Angel [a literary magazine]. He has published many short stories
and nine books of poetry. His poems in translation have been published in seven languages and continue to appear in magazines
and anthologies in the United States and abroad."
A5a. - Unsigned hardcover.
A5b. - Pagination and size as A5. 174 hard cover copies numbered and signed by the poet. Bound in lavender cloth, printed
in gilt on spine: HAROLD NORSE/CARNIVOROUS SAINT [-] Gay Sunshine Press. Silk head- and tail-bands. Dustjacket as wrapper
for paperback edition. $15.00.
A5c. - A special issue of twenty-six copies, bound and wrappered as A5a; lettered and signed by Norse, and with an original
poem in his autograph on p. [238]. Note: these twenty-six copies were each offered for sale with an original drawing by the
poet, but due to an oversight only about eighteen of them were so prepared. $30.00.
A6. ORGASMS OF LIGHT | THE GAY SUNSHINE | ANTHOLOGY | Poetry, Short Fiction, Graphics | Edited by Winston Leyland | Gay Sunshine
Press | San Francisco | 1977 9 x 6. Pp. 264. Perfect bound in glazed blue card wrappers, printed in pink, green and white.
Cover design by Frank Holbrook. From among other sources, the interior graphics are drawn from Barazoku, and the work of Joe
Brainard, Roger Stearns, James Reed, Edward Aulerich, Bill Warrick and Frederick Rolfe. Photograph of the editor on p. 264
by David Greene. Published in the Spring of 1977 with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the arts.
3,000 copies printed, at $5.95.
Poets and work featured in this anthology include: Arab poets of Al-Andalus (trans. by Erskine Lane). - Fernando Alegria (trans.
by Erskine Lane). - Edgar Allen Austin (died 1974). - Tommi Avicolli (b. 1951). - Porfirio Barba-Jacob (18831942; trans. by
Erskine Lane). - William Barber (b. 1946). - F. D. Blanton (b. 1953). - Victor Borsa (b. 1931). - Perry Brass (b. 1947). -
Stuart Byron (b. 1941). - Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933; trans. by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard; trans. by Ian Young). -
Luis Cernuda (1903-1963; trans. by Erskine Lane). - Ira Cohen (b. 1935). - Kirby Congdon (b. 1924). - Dennis Cooper (b. 1953).
- Ed Cox (b. 1946). - Emilio Cubeiro (b. 1947). - Gavin Dillard (b. 1954). - David Eberly (b. c.1948). -Jim Eggeling (b. 1934).
- Larry Eigner (b. 1927). Kenward Elmslie (b. 1929). - Sergei Esenin (1895-1925; trans. by Simon Karlinsky). - Salvatore Farinella
(b. 1940). - Charles Henri Ford (b. 1913). - Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926). - John Giorno (b. 1936). - Robert Gluck (b. 1947).
- Poems from The Greek Anthology (trans. by Winston Leyland from the French versions of Marc Daniel which originally appeared
in Arcadie). - Will Inman (b. 1923). - Tom Kennedy (b. 1951). - Maurice Kenny (b. 1929). - James Kirkup (b. 1918). - Nicolai
Klyuev (18871937; trans. by Simon Karlinsky). - Mikhail Kuzmin (b. 1872 or 1875-1936; trans. by Simon Karlinsky). - E. A.
Lacey. - Erskine Lane (b. 1940). - Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936). - Medieval Arab Poets (trans. by Winston Leyland, from
the French versions published by Marc Daniel in his article "La Civilisation arabe et l'amour masculin" [Arcadie, 1975/76]).
- Robin Maugham (b. 1916). - Tom Meyer (b. 1947). - Royal Murdoch (1898-1981). - Harold Norse (b. 1916). - Pier Paolo Pasolini
(1922-1975; trans. by W.I. Scobie). - Sandro Penna (20th cent.; Trans. by Ian Young & Marsha Jill Shakley). - Robert Peters
(b. 1924). - Felice Picano (b. 1944). - Robert F. Riordan (b. 1951). - Edouard Roditi (b. 1910). - Frederick William Rolfe,
Baron Corvo (18601913). - Michael Rumaker (b. 1932). - Stanley Rutherford (b. 1946). - Raymonde Sainte-Pierre (b. 1951). -
Ron Schreiber (b. 1934). -Robert Sellman (b. 1955). - Charley Shively (b. 1937). - Aaron Shurin (b. 1947). - David Emerson
Smith (b. 1945). - Jack Spicer (1925-1965). - Mutsuo Takahashi (b. 1937; trans. by Hiroaki Sato). - Gennady Trifonov (b. c.1945).
- Xavier Villaurutia (19031950; trans. by Erskine Lane). - John Wieners (b. 1934). - Jonathan Williams (b. 1929). - Ian Young
(b. 1945).
"Orgasms of Light contains the best of the poetry [&] short fiction... that has appeared in the pages of Gay Sunshine Journal
during the past seven years [i.e. 1970-1977] under the editorship of Winston Leyland [with the single exception of Testament:
Cairo 1898, which was first published in England by Michael De Hartington.] Playwright Tennessee Williams has called Gay Sunshine
'the only completely literate and serious gay publication with which I am acquainted.' This anthology includes work by more
than 100 writers and artists... An exploration of Gay poetic and artistic sensibility."
A6a. - Size and pagination as A6. 150 hard cover copies bound in silver cloth, printed in black on front cover: ORGASMS |
OF LIGHT | THE GAY SUNSHINE ANTHOLOGY | Edited by Winston Leyland; and along the spine: leyland [-] ORGASMS OF LIGHT [-] gay
sunshine press. Silk head- and tail-bands. ISBN 0-917342-53-4. $20.00. [Out of print, 1983.]
A6b. [no copy]- As A6a. Fifty copies signed and numbered by the editor. $30.00.
A6c. - As A6a. A special issue of twenty-six copies, lettered and signed by the editor and with a leaf inserted facing p.
264 on which is printed original translations by Winston Leyland of two medieval Arab poems, one drawn from A Thousand and
One Nights (the History of the Princess Zuleika), and the other by Jalal as-Din Rumi (Sufi, Persian, 13th century). $50.00.
A7. MEN LOVING MEN | A Gay Sex Guide and | Consciousness Book | Text by Mitch Walker | Photos by David Greene | Drawings by
Bill Warrick | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco 1977
10 x 7. Pp. 160. Perfect bound in glazed dark orange wrappers, printed in black and with a photograph by David Greene on the
front cover. David Greene's photographs appear as "LOVING MEN, A PHOTO ESSAY" occupying pp. 33-47. In addition to Bill Warrick's
drawings, there are graphics drawn from the works of Oscar Reuters-ward, George Catlin, Aubrey Beardsley, Antonello Da Messina
and various classical sources. ISBN 0-917342-52-6. $5.95.
"Men Loving Men is for people who want to explore their gayness and open up to new aspects of themselves. It's a complete
sex guide, with simple explanations for masturbation, fellatio, anal intercourse, group sex, sado-masochism and more. Each
chapter details ways to get into the kind of sex you want, plus what you can do about possible hang-ups and sexual fears.
Also included is all the medical information you need to know. Each chapter is fully illustrated, and there's a photo essay
which captures the spirit of loving men. In addition, the book contains a historical survey of gay male sex in past times
and other cultures. And because gayness is a way to grow, the book also talks about love and consciousness, about becoming
more yourself and in touch with the kosmic spirit. Men Loving Men is for experienced lovers, those just coming out, and for
all men who want to expand their joy and understanding."
A7a. - As A7. 2nd printing, 1977. $6.95.
A7b. [no copy]- As A7. 3rd printing, 1978. $7.95.
A7c. - As A7. 4th printing, 1979. $8.95.
A7d. - 5th printing, 1981. $10.00. As A7, but with size reduced to 9 x 6 and the color of the wrappers a slightly darker shade.
A7e. - As A7d. 6th printing, 1983. $10.00.
A7f. - 7th printing, revised. 1985. $10.00. As A7d, but with extensive revision made to chapter four-Gay Health-and changes
made to the copyright and contents pages.
A7g. - Second edition, First Printing. 1994. Wrappers redesigned by Rupert Kinnard, and illustrated with b&w photo by Franco/Ram
Studios, San Francisco. All interior photographs are new to this edition, and are also by Franco/Ram Studios.
A7h. - Second edition, Second Printing. 1997. As A7g. $15.95.
A8. GAME-TEXTS | A GUATEMALAN JOURNAL | Erskine Lane |Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco | 1978
8½ x 5½. Pp. 160. Perfect bound in glazed white card wrappers, with motif of Mayan-type dragons on the front cover printed
in blue, green, yellow and red. Cover design by Frank Holbrook; frontispiece, a photograph of an Indian youth, by Gertrude
Blom; Japanese calligraphy on pp. 24, 31, 72 and 113 by Kyoko Iriye Selden. Photograph of the author on p. [159] by Winston
Leyland. Published in the spring of 1978 with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 3,000 copies
of the paperback edition printed. ISBN 0-917342-59-3. $4.95. [Out of print, 1984.] "There are many journeys within this book,
but the real journey is inward, a game of the mind.
"The jungles, cloudforests, and majestic volcanos of Guatemala. A timeless Indian civilization. Personal meditations and reflections.
Memories of a rural Alabama childhood. And sex with Latin-American boys.
"These are the threads that intertwine here in a manner reminiscent of zuihitsu, the traditional Japanese mode of random composition.
The blending of the spiritual and the sensual is Whitmanic; the meditative passages are in the best tradition of the Tao/Zen
mystics and Alan Watts; but the pervading tone is fresh and original.
"A preliminary selection from Game-Texts appeared in Gay Sunshine Journal no. 26/27 and received a 1976 Fels Award for the
best non-fiction writing published by a small press magazine during that year."
A biography of the author of Game-Texts will be found in the entry for In Praise of Boys, q.v. at no. A2 above.
A8a. - Size and pagination as A8. 174 copies bound in yellow cloth, printed in black along spine: lane [-] GAME-TEXTS [-]
gay sunshine press. Head- and tail-bands. Dust-jacket as wrappers for 7. ISBN 0-917342-58-5. $15.00.
A8b. - As A8a. A special issue of Twenty-six copies, lettered and signed by the author. $30.00. Note: only 10 copies (A-J)
were actually lettered & signed.
A9. GAY | SUNSHINE | INTERVIEWS | Volume I | EDITED BY WINSTON LEYLAND | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco | 1978
9 x 6. Pp. 328. Perfect bound in glazed white card wrappers, printed in red and black across the front cover, spine and back
cover. Cover design by Ed Aulerich. Frontispiece is a reproduction of the cover of Gay Sunshine # 23 (1975), the issue containing
the interviews with Lou Harrison and John Rechy. Photograph of Winston Leyland on p. [327] by Steven Lafer. Each of the interviews
is preceded by a photograph of the subject. Published in 1978; number of copies printed unknown. ISBN 0-917342-63-1. $7.95.
"This anthology comprises in-depth interviews with gay poets, novelists, playwrights and composers published originally in
Gay Sunshine journal during the past several years. They provide seminal insights into the connections between sexuality and
artistic creativity, as well as dramatic revelations on the personal and literary lives of the interviewees. Poet Robert Peters
says that they 'belong in every library or collection seriously devoted to contemporary writing.'"
Authors included in this first volume are: William Burroughs, interviewed by (1) Laurence Collinson and Roger Baker; and (2)
by John Giorno. - Charles Henri Ford, interviewed by Ira Cohen. - Jean Genet, interviewed by Hubert Fichte. - Allen Ginsberg,
interviewed by Allen Young. - John Giorno, interviewed by Winston Leyland. - Christopher Isherwood, interviewed by (1) Winston
Leyland and (2) by Roger Austen. - Harold Norse, interviewed by Winston Leyland. -Peter Orlovsky, interviewed by Winston Leyland
and Charley Shively. - John Rechy, interviewed by Winston Leyland. - Gore Vidal, interviewed by (1) John Mitzel and Steven
Abbott; and (2) by Steven Abbott and Thom Willenbecher. - Tennessee Williams, interviewed by George Whitmore.
Portugese and Spanish translations of some of these interviews were published in Brazil in 1980 and Spain in 1982,3. For details
see the entry for Gay Sunshine Interviews vol. II, below.
A9 [no copy]
A9a. - Size and pagination as A9. 474 copies bound in dark blue cloth, printed in gilt along spine: Leyland [-] GAY SUNSHINE
INTERVIEWS VOL. 1 [-] Gay Sunshine Press. Head- and tail-bands. Dust jacket as wrappers for 9. ISBN 0-917342-62-3. $15.00.
A9b. [no copy]- As A9a. Twenty-six copies, lettered and signed by the editor.
Note: All copies of the trade and limited editions had a prospectus for Gay Sunshine Press Interviews vol. II, inserted. Printed
on one side only of a blue card measuring 81/2 x 51/2, this prospectus offered reduced rates to early subscribers and details
of seven other Gay Sunshine Press titles.
A9c. - Size and pagination as A9. A special issue of five copies, not for sale, bound in off-white sailcloth and printed in
blue on the front cover. Signed by five of the interviewees: Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Lou Harrison, Harold Norse and Peter
Orlovsky.
A9d. [no copy]- Identical with A9. Increase in price to $10.00 in 1982, indicated by sticker on the back cover covering original
price.
A9e. - Second printing in 1984. Identical with A9, except for new wrapper design, incorporating photographs of six of the
interviewees. $10.00.
A10. CHICKEN | Poems by | DENNIS KELLY | Gay Sunshine Press |San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 80. 1979. Perfect bound in glazed white card wrappers, printed in black and sepia on the front cover and black
on the spine and back cover. Cover design by Frank Holbrook. Frontispiece by Otto Lohmuller, reproduced in monochrome from
a painting, and nine collages by Dennis Kelly. Photograph of the author on p. 80 by F. X. Allard. 2,000 copies printed. ISBN
0-917342-71-2. $4.95. [Entire edition, in both cloth and paper, out of print in 1986.]
"CHICKEN is an illustrated collection of [previously unpublished] boylove poems by Seattle poet Dennis Kelly. Believing that
' technique is a test of a man's sincerity,' the author explores various gay genres (from the epigrams of Catullus to the
ideograms of Pound) to arrive at a uniquely humorous and thought-provoking stance towards boylove... with such poems as 'The
Groceryboy,' 'Minotaur eat,' and 'The Eternal Chicken.'" 10 GAY SUNSHINE PRESS
Biographical note on the author: "Born 1943, Gemini with Cancer rising. Grew up as a WWII airforce brat moving from base to
base with pilot-father & Irish-redhead'd mother. Got 'edchewcated' in the Deep South (B.S. at LSU in Baton Rouge). Discovered
Ginsberg & Genet at 20. Worked way through college on Gulf of Mexico oilrigs. Followed gymnast lover to Seattle in 1969. Met
second lover at UW & began publishing in Gay Sunshine & Fag Rag. Presently working on long epic poem entitled Cantos Northwest."
A10a. - Identical with A10. Twenty copies, numbered and signed by the author. $10.00.
A10b. - Size and pagination as A10. A special issue of twenty-six copies, each lettered and signed by the author and with
an original holograph poem, entitled Billy's Spurs, on the recto of the free endpaper. Bound in purple cloth, with clear acetate
dust jacket. Printed in gilt on the front cover: CHICKEN | Poems by | DENNIS KELLY; and along the spine: CHICKEN [-] by Dennis
Kelly [-] Gay Sunshine Press. $30.00.
A10c. - Second printing in 1981. Identical to A10, except for the new publication dated added to the information on p. [4]
and a price increase-to $5.95-on the back cover.
A11. ARTHUR RIMBAUD/PAUL VERLAINE | A LOVER'S COCK | and other gay poems | translated by | J. MURAT and W. GUNN | Gay Sunshine
Press | San Francisco | 1979
8½ x 5½. Pp. 64. Perfect bound in matt card wrappers; front cover printed in white on pale rose background, spine and back
cover printed in black on white. Cover design by Nuki [Daniel Millsaps]. Frontispiece, a detail reproduced in monochrome from
Henri Fantin-Latour's painting Un coin de table (1872) showing Rimbaud and Verlaine together, and four l9th century drawings
of the poets by Felix Regamey, Jean Veth, Luque and Verlaine himself. 2,000 copies printed. ISBN 0-917342-68-2. $3.95.
“In 1871 Arthur Rimbaud (then aged 16) and Paul Verlaine (aged 27) met and became lovers. Several erotic gay poems resulted
from their stormy affair, including a sonnet to the asshole, written jointly. Other poems, such as Verlaine's Hombres series,
were written long after they separated. Many of the poems are very explicit and raunchy indeed (for instance, ‘Shit, Cheese
and Cum’); others show a sexual liberation a century ahead of their time (for instance, ‘The Gay Heritage’). These poems,
several of them previously untranslated into English, are gathered here for the first time in one volume. Original French
text is provided along with a superb English translation.”
Biographical notes on the authors: Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 at Charleville in the Ardennes. A precocious youth, he
began writing poetry at the age of 15. In August 1870, he began the first of three abortive attempts to run away from home,
first to Paris, then to Belgium and finally to Paris again. After this third escapade, some poems he had sent to Paul Verlaine
resulted in an invitation to visit him at Paris, which was accepted. Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre was written on his arrival at
the French capital. A passionate relationship developed between the two poets, and the pair traveled to Brussels and England
together. This affaire lasted until the summer of 1873 when, in a drunken argument, Verlaine wounded Rimbaud with a pistol
shot. Returning home to Charleville, Rimbaud worked on Une Saison en enfer and Les Illuminations. The former collection was
published in 1873 at the author's expense while the latter was first published, in a corrupt version edited by Verlaine, in
La Vogue in 1886. Rimbaud's later life was occupied in extensive foreign travel, with a complete loss of interest in literary
matters. He followed a career of seeming eccentricity that involved, amongst other occupations, a spell in the Dutch army,
management of a circus and gun running in Africa. It was during this latter period that he developed an agonising tumor on
his knee that necessitated his return to France, where his leg was amputated. He died shortly afterwards, in 1891. The first
critical edition of his works, incorporating variant readings, appeared in 1939 from Mercure de France, under the editorship
of Bouillane de Lacoste.
Paul Verlaine was born at Metz in 1844, and educated at Paris. His early life, after leaving university, was spent in the
company of the young writers and artists who were to form the group known as Le Parnasse contemporaine. In 1870, Verlaine
married a young girl he'd met first two years earlier, but it was a hopeless match, marred first by his excessive drinking
and, later, by his abandonment of his wife and home in order to take up with Arthur Rimbaud in a vagabond existence that took
them to England and Belgium. But this relationship was doomed as well, and ended violently in 1873 when, as a result of wounding
Rimbaud with a pistol shot, Verlaine went to prison at Mons for two years. His later life was marked by alternate periods
of alcoholism and religious repentance, with a further spell in prison as a result of beating up his widowed mother. He died
in extreme poverty at Paris in 1896. His poetic collections include La Bonne chanson (1870), Romances sans paroles (1874),
Sagesse (1881) and Chansons pour elle (1891). There are two volumes of autobiography, Mes prisons (1893) and Confessions (1895).
A11a. – Pagination and size as A11. Fifty numbered copies bound in off-white sailcloth, printed in blue on the frontcover:
Arthur Rimbaud-Paul Verlaine | A LOVER'S COCK | and other Gay Poems; and along the spine: Rimbaud-Verlaine [–] A LOVER'S COCK
[–] Gay Sunshine Press. $25.00.
A11b. – Second printing in 1980. 3,000 copies. Identical with A11, except for the following differences: new publication date
added to information on p. [4]; no publication date on the titlepage; omission of limitation notice on p. [64]; addition of
short critical note by Ned Rorem to back cover; and new price–$4.95–also on back cover.
A12. NOW THE VOLCANO | An Anthology of | Latin American Gay Literature | Edited by Winston Leyland | Translated by | Erskine
Lane | Franklin D. Blanton | Simon Karlinsky | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 288. 1979. Perfect bound in glazed black card wrappers, printed in gold and orange on the front cover and spine,
and in white on the back cover. Frontispiece, a reproduction of a painting by the Brazilian artist Darcy Penteado, and six
illustrations by Jose Clemente Orozco, Miguel Angel Rojas, Federico Undiano, Arlindo Daibert, Darcy Penteado and Luis Caballero.
Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-917342-67-4. 5,000 copies printed.
$7.95.
Authors and poets included in this anthology are, from Mexico: Salvador Novo (1904-1974). – Luis Cernuda (1902-1963). – Xavier
Villaurrutia (1903-1950). – Ernesto Bañuelos Enríquez (b. 1948). From Brazil: Adolfo Caminha (1867-1896). – “Gasparino Damata”
(i.e., Gasparino da Mata e Silva; 1918-1984). – Caio Fernando Abreu (b. 1948). – Aguinaldo Silva (b. 1944). – Edilberto Coutinho
(b. 1933). – Darcy Penteado (b. 1926). – Joao Silvério Trevisan (b. 1944). – “Valery Pereleshin” (i.e. Valery Salatko-Petrysche
(b. 1913). – Cassiano Nunes (b. 1921). – Franklin Jorge. From Colombia: “Porfirio Barba-Jacob” (i.e., Miguel Angel Osorio;
1883-1942). – Jaime Jaramillo Escobar (b. 1932). – Jaime Manrique Ardilla (b. 1949).
“This anthology is a remarkable achievement. The editor has chosen to restrict himself to imaginative literature (fiction
and poetry, plus one long memoir), written by authors who are gay themselves and have considerable knowledge of Latin American
gay society… Now the Volcano is an extremely valuable exploration of what for most of us, North American or Latin American,
up to now was an unknown jungle, a casa verde.” – E. A. Lacey. The material gathered together for Now the Volcano, which all
appears here in English for the first time, is extracted from various periodicals and single-author collections with the exception
of the contributions by Salvador Novo, Ernesto Bañuelos Enríquez, “Valery Pereleshin,” and Jaime Manrique Ardilla which are
original and unpublished elsewhere.
A12a. – Pagination and size as A12. Hardcover edition, bound in dark red cloth with cream endpapers and head- and tail-bands.
Printed in gold on the front cover: NOW THE VOLCANO | AN ANTHOLOGY OF LATIN | AMERICAN GAY LITERATURE | Edited by Winston
Leyland; and along the spine: Leyland, ed. [–] NOW THE VOLCANO | AN ANTHOLOGY OF LATIN AMERICAN GAY LITERATURE [–] gay sunshine
press. ISBN 0-917342-66-6. $20.00.
A13. BUDDHA'S KISSES | and other poems | by | Richard Ronan | Drawings by Bill Rancitelli | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 96. 1980. Perfect bound in white glazed card wrappers, printed in red and black on the front cover and spine,
and black on the back cover. Cover art, frontispiece and four illustrations by Bill Rancitelli. Photograph of the author on
p. 95 by Maz Livingstone. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. ISBN 0917342-73-9.
$4.95. [Out of print in all editions, 1986.]
“BUDDHA'S KISSES is a book of love poems, a work of grace and relentlessness. Its main concerns are the love of men, the presence
of loss, and aloneness in time and place. But it also gives these experiences their larger context, grounding them in life
and in the meaning gathered in a life fully lived. These poems are simple tributes to human endurance and to the traditions
of human transformation.”
A number of the poems in Buddha's Kisses have been previously published, sometimes in other versions, in various periodicals
and newspapers, such as Gay Sunshine, Mouth of the Dragon and American Poetry Review.
Biographical note on the author: “Richard Ronan was born in 1946. His plays, poetry, and prose have appeared in more than
fifty magazines across the country, including The American Poetry Review and Gay Sunshine. He is a novelist and playwright/director
with close ties to the alternative theatre movement. Seven of Richard Ronan's plays, major contributions to American avant-garde
theatre, have been produced in New York. He has taught oriental philosophy and literature and sees his own processes as best
described by those disciplines.”
A13a. – As A13. Twenty copies numbered and signed by the author. $10.00.
A13b. – Pagination and size as A13. A Special issue of twenty-six copies lettered and signed by the author, and with an original
holograph poem, entitled “Prayer,” on the recto of the front free endpaper. Bound in dark red cloth, with clear acetate dust
jacket. Printed in gilt across the front cover: BUDDHA'S KISSES | POEMS BY RICHARD RONAN; and along the spine: BUDDHA'S KISSES
[–] RONAN [–] Gay Sunshine Press. $35.00.
A14. ALLEN GINSBERG/PETER ORLOVSKY | STRAIGHT HEARTS' DELIGHT | Love Poems and Selected Letters | 1947-1980 | Edited by Winston
Leyland | [epig.:] Sure, if that long-with-love acquainted eyes | Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case… | – Sir
Philip Sidney | from Astrophel and Stella (1591) | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. Pp. 240. 1980. Perfect bound in glazed black card wrappers, printed in white, yellow and red on the front cover, white
and black on the spine and white on the back cover. Cover design by Frank Holbrook. Frontispiece, a photograph of Ginsberg
and Orlovsky, by Richard Avedon. Text illustrated with photographs of the authors and their “beatnik” friends of the 1940's
and 50's, drawings by Robert LaVigne, and two facsimile pages extracted from letters of the authors. 5,000 copies printed
with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-917342-65-8. $8.95.
“STRAIGHT HEARTS' DELIGHT is a crucial volume for understanding the Beat Movement and two of its most prominent members. Included
are gay love poems by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, many previously unpublished in book form, covering a thirty year
period; also letters exchanged between the two poets which document their own love relationship, their travels abroad, and
friendship with other Beat writers. The word ‘straight’ in the title is used in its traditional, and Ginsbergian sense, of
straightforward, free from crookedness and deceit.”
Much of the material gathered together in Straight Hearts’ Delight is reprinted from other sources, with the exception of
the letters and the following pieces, which are original to this volume. By Allen Ginsberg: I Lay Love on My Knee. – Love
Replied. – Love Returned. – Love Forgiven. By Peter Orlovsky: Thank God… I Wasn’t a Whore Boy. – Dildo Song Sung Note for
Note on Guitar. – Tanger Surprise.
Biographical notes on the authors: Allen Ginsberg was born in New Jersey in 1926, and educated at Grammar High School Patterson
and Columbia College. Through his early association with such authors as Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady–and
later Gregory Corso–he became one of leading figures of the “Beat Movement,” and with the appearance of his remarkable poem
Howl in 1956 one of its most dynamic poets and propagandists. He travelled widely, during the 1950's to Mexico and Latin America
and in the 60's to India, Vietnam and Japan. He experimented extensively with hallucinogenic drugs, and was an enthusiastic
student of Eastern mysticism. There were visits to a number of “Iron Curtain” countries, including Cuba, Russia, Poland and
Czechoslovakia, and in the latter country he was elected King of May by the citizens of Prague. He received a number of literary
awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1963-4), and has been active in poetry workshops, seminars and education throughout
the United States and Europe. During the Vietnam war era, Ginsberg was in the forefront of the peace movement, and was arrested
with Dr. Benjamin Spock in 1967 during an anti-draft demonstration. He has published more than twenty-five volumes of poetry
and prose. His Collected Poems appeared in 1985.
Peter Orlovsky was born at New York in 1933. After leaving school, he held a variety of occupations including those of ambulance
attendant, farmer, housecleaner and newsboy, and earned a discharge from the Military after telling them that “An army is
an army against love.” He travelled to North Africa with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, and later to India, with Ginsberg
and Gary Snyder. On his return, he participated in poetry readings and learned to play the banjo and the guitar. Active in
the anti-war movement in the 1960's. His poetry has appeared in a number of periodicals, and he has had three books published,
Dear Allen: Ship will land Jan 23 (1971). – Lepers Cry (1972). – Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs (1978).
A14a. – As A14. 224 copies bound in black cloth, printed in gilt along the spine: GINSBERG | ORLOVSKY [–] STRAIGHT HEARTS’
DELIGHT [–] LEYLAND, ED. [–] GAY SUNSHINE PRESS. Head- and tail-bands. Dust jacket as wrapper for 14. ISBN 0-917342-64-X.
$20.00.
A14b. – As A14a. Fifty copies numbered and signed by both authors. Published at $30.00; price increased to $50.00 in 1983.
[Out of print, 1985.]
A14c. – Size and pagination as A14. A Special issue of twenty-six copies, lettered and signed by both authors. Hand-bound
in grey paper boards, backed with patterned blue cloth. Heavy black endpapers, head-and tail-bands and clear acetate dust
jacket. Printed in red on front cover: ALLEN | GINSBERG [–] PETER | ORLOVSKY [–] |STRAIGHT HEARTS’ DELIGHT | Edited by Winston
Leyland. Grey paper label on the spine, printed in red: GINSBERG | ORLOVSKY [–] STRAIGHT HEARTS’ DELIGHT. $50.00. [Out of
print, 1981.]
A15. LOOK BACK IN JOY | CELEBRATION OF GAY LOVERS | Malcolm Boyd | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 128. 1981. Perfect bound in glazed black wrappers, printed in white, green, red and brown on the frontcover,
white and red on the spine and white on the backcover. Cover design by Frank Holbrook. Photographs of the author facing the
titlepage and on p. [84] by Roger Ressmeyer. Uncredited photograph of the author taken at Detroit in 1966 facing p. 120. ISBN
0-917342-77-1. $6.95.
“A fresh and original literary work by an internationally acclaimed writer. Malcolm Boyd recounts his experiences with gay
lovers, reflecting joy and fulfillment. He places poetical [prose] remembrances of these relationships in the framework of
the four seasons, moving from spring to winter. This nostalgic look at the intensely human encounters of his life is marked
by spirit and wit. An in-depth interview with the author is also included.”
Look Back in Joy consists of prose poems, “autobiographical remembrances,” which, with the exception of The Bishop, which
appeared originally in The Advocate, are original to this volume. The interview with Malcolm Boyd was first published in Gay
Sunshine (No. 44/5, 10th Anniversary Issue, 1980).
Biographical note on the author: Malcolm Boyd was born at New York in 1923. In the 1940's, he worked in Hollywood and New
York as a partner of Mary Pickford in P.R.B., Inc., a pioneer TV production company. He was the first president of the Television
Producers Association of Hollywood. In the 1950's, Boyd entered an Episcopal seminary and was ordained a priest. In the 60's,
he became a leader in the civil rights and peace movements, and spoke at more than 100 campuses, including Harvard, Michigan,
Stanford, M.I.T., Cornell, Columbia and Vassar. Along with Federico Fellini, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Jules Feiffer and
William F. Buckley he was described as a “Disturber of the Peace” by Mademoiselle magazine. During the 1970's, Boyd was honored
as an author when he was invited to live in Jerusalem for three months as a guest of Mishkenot Sha'ananim, the centre for
artists and writers. He has written 19 books, and edited two others, and Boston University has established The Malcolm Boyd
Collection, a permanent archive of his letters and papers. The best-selling Book of Lists included him in its list of “67
renowned homosexuals and bisexuals” throughout history.
A15a. – Pagination and size as A15. Hardcover edition, bound in medium brown cloth with head- and tail-bands. Printed in gilt
on the frontcover: LOOK BACK IN JOY | Malcolm Boyd; and along the spine: Malcolm Boyd [–] LOOK BACK IN JOY [–] Gay Sunshine
Press. ISBN 0-917342-85-2. $20.00.
A15b. – Pagination and size as A15. A special issue of twenty-six copies, each lettered and signed by the author. Bound in
white paper boards, backed with floral patterned gray cloth. Pale lilac endpapers, with head- and tail-bands and clear acetate
dust jacket. Printed in gilt on the frontcover: LOOK BACK IN JOY | Malcolm Boyd; and along the spine on a paper label: Malcolm
Boyd [–] LOOK BACK IN JOY. $35.00.
A16. TREASURES | OF THE NIGHT | The Collected Poems | of | JEAN GENET | Translated by Steven Finch | Drawings by Bill Sullivan
|Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. Pp. 120. 1981. Perfect bound in glazed white wrappers, printed in black and gold on the frontcover and spine, and in
black on the backcover. Cover design and six interior illustrations by Bill Sullivan. Frontispiece reproduced from the cover
of the first edition of Genet's poems, published in 1948. ISBN 0-917342-76-3. $6.95.
Note: The initial choice of gold lettering on the cover was abandoned when the publisher discovered that the wording was effectively
“lost” against the black and white cover design. Ten copies with these defective wrappers were bound for the publisher's files,
but not offered for sale, and constitute the technical first edition. The issue actually distributed to retail outlets for
sale to the public will be found described at 16a, below.
“Treasures of the Night is a collection of all Jean Genet's poems, with an English translation. In a framework of traditional
French verse, the eternal and universal themes of poetry and prose, life and death, love and indifference, water and earth,
day and night, reality and illusion, are reunited and reevaluated, leading the reader along a spiritual road of discovery
and enlightenment.
“The six long and highly lyrical poems in this bilingual edition are a stylistic reflection on our times as well as a rich
contribution to the expression of the gay movement and spirit.
“This edition has been authorized by Jean Genet.”
Concerning the poems in this volume: “Le Condamné à Mort” was written in 1942 while Genet was still in Fresnes prison. It
was first published, along with “Marche Funèbre,” in Chants Secrets (L'Arbalète) in Lyon, 1945. “La Galère” first appeared
in La Table Ronde, 3e Cahier, 1945, under a dedication to Nico Dakis. The earliest printing of “Un Chant d'Amour” seems to
be that in View (Paris), vol. vi, nos. 2-3, March-April 1946. The above four poems, together with “La Parade” and “Le Pêcheur
du Suquet,” were published in Poèmes (L'Arbalète, Lyon 1948) in a limited edition of 1000 copies. This was reprinted in a
trade edition by L'Arbalète in 1962. Gallimard published three of these poems, “Le Condamné à Mort,” “Un Chant d'Amour,” and
“Le Pêcheur du Suquet,” in 1951/53 in oeuvres complètes de Jean Genet, with some modifications in the text.
The texts presented in Treasures of the Night follow the 1948/1962 Arbalète edition for “Marche Funèbre,” “La Galère,” “La
Parade,” and “Le Pêcheur du Suquet” and the 1951/53 Gallimard edition for “Le Condamné à Mort” and “Un Chant d'Amour,” with
several slight modifications taken from the l'Arbalète edition.
Note: This edition of Genet's poems is the first in book form in English. It predates by two or three months the edition published
in issue 12 of the South San Francisco periodical Manroot.
Biographical note on the author: “Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. At the age of ten he was sent to a reformatory for
stealing. For many years during his adult life he wandered throughout Europe making his way by begging, smuggling, thievery.
Much of his early manhood was spent in prisons and reformatories. Between 1940 and 1948 he wrote several autobiographical
books, including Our Lady of the Flowers, The Thief's Journal, and Miracle of the rose. In 1948 his sentence of life imprisonment
was commuted largely through the efforts of French writers (such as Sartre and Gide). He has also written five plays, among
them The Maids, The Balcony, and The Screens. An in-depth interview with Genet is included in Gay Sunshine Interviews, volume
I, edited by Winston Leyland (Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco, 1978).”
A16a. – Identical with A16, but with the wrappers printed in black and pink instead of black and gold. This was the version
distributed to bookshops and constitutes the second issue of the first edition.
A16b. – Pagination and size as A16. 100 numbered copies bound in gold cloth, with head- and tail-bands. Printed in blue on
the frontcover: JEAN GENET | TREASURES | OF THE NIGHT; and along the spine: Jean Genet [–] TREASURES OF THE NIGHT [–] Gay
Sunshine Press. $25.00.
A16c. – As A16b. Fifty copies with the lettering on the frontcover and spine in red.
A17. SIZE QUEEN | and other poems | Dennis Kelly | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 112. 1981. Perfect bound in glazed blue card wrappers, printed in white, pink and black on the front- and backcovers,
and white on the spine. Cover design by Frank Holbrook, using illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley for Aristophanes' Lysistrata.
Frontispiece and eight collages by the author. 3000 copies printed. ISBN 0-917342-82-8. $5.95.
“SIZE QUEEN is a boylove travelogue via such writers as William Carlos Williams, Pound, Crane, Spice, Vallejo and Rilke; it
is an attempt to ground gay belles lettres in contemporary poetics. Seattle writer Dennis Kelly explores his own life in the
Pacific Northwest in such poems as ‘Slave Boys of Sheba,’ ‘Baryshnikov Is Coming’ and ‘Punks of the Quotidian.’”
All the poems published in Size Queen are original, and previously unpublished. For a biographical note on the author see
9.
A17a. – Pagination and size as A17. A special issue of twenty-six copies lettered and signed by the author, and with an original
holograph poem, entitled Canto XI, on p. [112]. Bound in pale blue boards, backed with dark blue cloth and with pale blue
endpapers. Printed in gold on the frontcover: SIZE QUEEN | Dennis Kelly. Paper label on the spine, printed in gold: Dennis
Kelly [–] SIZE QUEEN. $35.00.
A18. [Within a single-line oblong frame:] RECIPES, MENUS & TECHNIQUES | FOR THE EASY PREPARATION | OF ELEGANT DINNERS FOR
TWO | [outside frame:] DINNER FOR TWO | BY RICK LEED . A GAY SUNSHINE COOK-BOOK
9 x 6. Pp. 160. 1981. Perfect bound in glazed yellow wrappers, printed in black, white and brown on the frontcover, black
and brown on the spine and black on the backcover. Cover design and one drawing on p. [141] by Manuel Gomez; cover illustrations
and interior artwork by Frank Holbrook. ISBN 0-91734286-0. $8.95. [Out of print, 1986.]
“This is a cookbook to help you create satisfying dinners for two, especially if you don't have endless time for cooking.
Whether you are gay, straight or a little of each, Dinner for Two will help you please your dinner partner and convince him/her
that you have some of the attributes of a master chef.
“The cookbook includes 52 complete menus. Each menu consists of a main course–an entree with vegetable–a salad, and dessert.
There are special sections for chicken, beef, veal, lamb, pork, fish, eggs/cheese, and salads.
“For the beginning cook, Dinner for Two provides the guidance necessary to produce the right meal for you and your special
dinner partner. For the more experienced cook, there are recipes and menus that will provide you with new culinary ideas to
add to your repertoire.”
A19. MEAT | How Men | Look Act | Walk Talk | Dress Undress | Taste & Smell | True Homosexual Experiences | from S.T.H. | Gay
Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 192. 1981. Perfect bound in glazed blue wrappers, printed in black, white and red on the front-cover and spine,
and in black and white on the back-cover. Cover design by Victor Weaver, executed by Frank Holbrook. Illustrated for the most
part with photographs drawn from the Athletic Model Guild of Los Angeles, the Swedish magazine Revolt and Sierra Domino. An
Introduction by the Boston poet Charley Shively occupies pp. 5-8. First printing officially scheduled for January 1981, and
so indicated on the copyright page, but actually released to retail outlets about November 1980. 10,000 copies printed. ISBN
0-917342-78-X. $10.00.
“S.T.H.: The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts is one of the most astonishing underground magazines in the country… Men from
all over the country, and abroad, have published in S.T.H. their most intimate sexual experiences. The best of these true
accounts, plus new material, is gathered here for the first time in book form.”
“Supported by Welfare (SSI), Straight to Hell [S.T.H.] arose to arouse queers everywhere out of their underwear. As a reader
wrote in San Francisco, ‘Who would ever dream that fantastic jerk-off material & consciousness raising stuff could be found
in the same rag?’ How many rags even try to answer that dream? Besides STH, one might place Fag Rag (which I'm part of) or
Gay Sunshine. Appropriately enough, Meat is a happy collaboration between Boyd McDonald [publisher of S.T.H.] and Winston
Leyland, editor of Gay Sunshine Press – one on the East Coast, the other on the West Coast. Leyland has judiciously (or I
should say juicily) selected and edited material from STH for this anthology…
“Meat is an unprecedented piece of literature… creating a literature of ‘pure sex,’ in itself an act of revolution… Meat may
be the most moral book ever assembled; a morality of participants in which being `good' is giving a good blow or rim job,
being ‘good’ is being hot and hard, being ‘good’ is letting it all come out…” Charley Shively, from the Introduction.
Biographical note on the editor of S.T.H.: Boyd McDonald was born in South Dakota in 1925. ‘I was a pioneer high school dropout,’
he writes, ‘leaving school to play badly in a bad travelling dance band. I was drafted into the Army, graduated from Harvard
and came to New York, where my principal activity was taking advantage of the city's public sexual recreation facilities.
As a sideline I worked as a hack writer at Time, Forbes, IBM and even more sordid companies. In 1970 I started the magazine,
S.T.H. (Straight to Hell), The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts, later re-named The New York Review of Cocksucking, from
which Winston Leyland made this anthology [Flesh, see entry # 24] and its predecessor, Meat. I recently beat my own meat almost
constantly for five days and was in ecstasy, as was Hedy Lamarr; I mention this to show the kind of sustained, conscientious
dedication that goes into S.T.H., Meat and Flesh.’
For other volumes of pieces extracted from S.T.H. see entry nos. A24, A29, A32, A45.
A19a. – Second printing in July 1981. Identical with A19, except for the new publication date added to the information on
p. [4].
A19b. – Third printing in September 1983, with increase of price to $12.00 indicated on the backcover. Although the pagination
and size of this reissue are identical to the first edition, a number of important variants differentiate it. The words “Edited
by Boyd McDonald” are added to the titlepage. On p. [4], a “special offer” notice for a proposed second volume of S.T.H. material–eventually
published as Flesh (see A24 below)–is replaced by an advertising coupon for a number of other Gay Sunshine Press titles; also,
a “free catalog of books available” offer becomes a “22-page illustrated catalog” costing $1.00, and the new publication date
is added.
A19c. – Pagination and size as A19. Fourth printing, 1994, with the wrappers redesigned by Rupert Kinnard and a new colour
cover photograph by Kristen Bjorn. The catalogue of ‘Books from Leyland Publication/G.S Press” on p. [191] has been updated.
$14.95.
A20. GORE VIDAL | A | THIRSTY | EVIL | SEVEN SHORT STORIES | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 128. 1981. Perfect bound in glazed white wrappers, printed in black, pale green and plum on the frontcover and
plum and black on the spine and back-cover. Cover design by Joe Fuoco. Photograph of the author on the back cover by Bellamy.
Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-917432-84-4. $7.95.
This volume is a reprint of a collection published formerly at New York in 1956 by Zero Press, and comprises seven stories
that appeared first in Encounter, Tomorrow, New Directions No. 12, and New World Writing No. 1 and No. 4.
Contents: Three Stratagems. – The Robin. – A Moment of Green Laurel. – The Zenner Trophy. – Elinda and Mr Coffin. – Pages
from an Abandoned Journal. – The Ladies in the Library.
Biographical note on the author: “Gore Vidal was born in 1925. His maternal grandfather was Thomas Gore, the first United
States senator from Oklahoma. Vidal's father was later a sub-cabinet member in FDR's administration. Gore Vidal wrote his
first novel, Williwaw, at the age of nineteen while serving in the army. He was soon heralded as one of the most promising
postwar writers. His reputation has increased steadily during almost four decades as a writer. In 1960 he ran for the U.S.
House of Representatives from a New York district. He lost the election but ran ahead of John Kennedy, leader of the ticket.
From 1970 to 1972 he was co-chairman of the People's Party.”
A20a. – Pagination and size as A20. Hardcover edition, bound in dark plum cloth, with head- and tail-bands. Printed in gilt
on the frontcover: GORE VIDAL | A THIRSTY EVIL; and along the spine: Gore Vidal [–] A THIRSTY EVIL [–] Gay Sunshine Press.
ISBN 0-91734283-6. $20.00.
A20b. – Pagination and size as A20. A special issue of 100 copies, numbered, all signed by the author on the titlepage. Bound
in cream paper boards, backed with dark blue cloth. Cream endpapers, with head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket.
Printed in gilt on the frontcover: GORE VIDAL | A | THIRSTY | EVIL; and along the spine on a cream paper label: GORE VIDAL
[–] A THIRSTY EVIL. $50.00.
A21. ADONIS GARCIA | A Picaresque Novel | by | Luis Zapata |Translated by E. A. Lacey | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 208. 1981. Perfect bound in glazed orange wrappers, printed in black, white and blue on the frontcover and spine,
and white on the back cover. Cover design by Frank Holbrook; cover photograph by David Greene. The photograph of the author
on p. 208 is by Lola Alvarez Bravo. An Introduction by Jose Joaquin Blanco occupies pp. 5-8, and a “Translator's Note” occupies
pp. 203-207. Published with the assistance of a grant from the California Arts Council. ISBN 0-917342-80-1. $7.95.
Adonis Garcia is a translation of Las Aventuras, Desventuras y Suenos de Adonis Garcia, El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma (Mexico
City: Editorial Grijalbo, 1979)
“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 argot) are detailed in this prize winning novel, translated from Spanish
for the first time by E. A. Lacey. The author employs the language of conversation producing literature which is an immediate
representation of reality. Blank spaces replace traditional punctuation, following the rhythms of conversation.”
Biographical note on the author: “Luis Zapata was born in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico in April 1951. He has a degree in
medieval French literature and currently teaches at the National University of Mexico (D.F.). His first novel Hasta en las
mejores familias (Even in the best of families, untranslated), received honorable mention in the contest for the Mexico International
Novel Prize (1975). His second novel, El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma (Adonis Garcia) won the first Grijaldo prize for the novel
and has been critically acclaimed in Mexico. Zapata's collection of short stories A Tontas y a Locas was published in 1981.”
Biographical note on the translator: “Canadian author E. A. Lacey's most recent book is Later: Poems 1973-1978, (Catalyst
Press). His work appears in the two Gay Sunshine poetry anthologies Angels of the Lyre (1975) and Orgasms of Light (1977).
His in-depth essay ‘Latin America: Myths and Realities’ appeared in Gay Sunshine No. 40/41 (1979).” He is also the translator
of Bom-Crioulo and My Deep Dark Pain is Love (see entries 22 and 35, below).
A21a. – Pagination and size as A21. Hardcover edition, bound in orange cloth with head- and tail-bands. Printed in silver
on the frontcover: ADONIS GARCIA | Luis Zapata; and along the spine: Luis Zapata [–] ADONIS GARCIA [–] Gay Sunshine Press.
ISBN 0-917342-79-8. $20.00.
A21b. – Pagination and size as A21. A special issue of twenty-six copies, each lettered and signed by both the author and
the translator. Bound in orange paper boards, backed with plain yellow cloth. Orange endpapers, with head- and tail-bands
and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed in gilt on the frontcover: ADONIS GARCIA | Luis Zapata; and along the spine on an orange
paper label: Luis Zapata [–] Adonis Garcia. $50.00.
A22. BOM-CRIOULO | The Black Man and the Cabin Boy | by | Adolfo Caminha | Translated from the Portuguese | by | E. A. Lacey
| Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 144. 1982. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers, printed across the frontcover, spine and back-cover in black,
pink, white and blue. Cover drawing by Jose Lima; cover design by Speros Bairaktaris. The frontispiece, a pen and ink drawing
of the author, is unsigned. An Introduction by Raul de Sa Barbosa, who also provides footnotes to the text in collaboration
with the translator, occupies pp. 5-10. A short essay on the novel by Robert Howes occupies pp. 11-16, and a “Translator's
Preface” occupies pp. 17-21. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-917342-88-7.
$7.95.
“First English translation of the controversial Brazilian novel, Bom Crioulo. This was the first completely open gay novel
to be published anywhere in the world (1895). It relates in naturalistic style the overt sexual relationship between a mature
black man (Bom-Crioulo) and a boy of 15 (Aleixo). The book provoked such controversy in Brazil that author was threatened
with court proceedings; it has since become a classic and is still in print in that country. The novel has a very contemporary
ring and appeal.”
Biographical note on the author: “Adolfo Caminha was born in Ceara, Brazil, in 1867. Orphaned at an early age, he was taken
to Rio de Janeiro by an uncle who enrolled him the naval school there. As a naval cadet he visited many parts of the world,
including the United States. In 1887 he returned to Ceara as a second lieutenant and began to take part in the intellectual
and political life of that state. A passionate love affair with the wife of an army officer resulted in a scandal and his
resignation from the navy.
“In 1890, as a public official in Ceara, he began his literary career. Two years later he returned to Rio, where he died of
tuberculosis at the age of twenty-nine.” Extracted from Winston Leyland's Introductory note to the extract of Bom Crioulo
published in Now the Volcano (San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1979, p. 82); see entry no. A12, above.
A22a. – Pagination and size as A22. Hardcover edition, bound in dark green cloth with head- and tail-bands. Printed in gilt
on the frontcover: Adolfo Caminha | BOM-CRIOULO | THE BLACK MAN AND THE CABIN BOY; and along the spine: Adolfo Caminha [–]
BOMCRIOULO [–] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0-917342-89-5. $20.00.
A22b. – Pagination and size as A22. A special issue of twenty-six lettered copies. Bound in cream paper boards backed with
plain dark-red cloth. Cream endpapers, with head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed in gilt on the frontcover:
BOM-CRIOULO | The Black Man and the Cabin Boy | Adolfo Caminha; and on a cream paper label along the spine: Adolfo Caminha
[–] Bom-Crioulo. $35.00.
A23. CUTE | and other poems | Jim Everhard | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 80. 1982. Perfect bound in glazed blue wrappers, printed on the frontcover and spine in black and plum, and in
black on the backcover. Cover illustration and frontispiece by Joe Fuoca. Layout by Timothy Lewis. Photograph of the author
on p. 80 by Jeffrey Miller. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-917342-93-3.
$4.95.
“CUTE brings together a body of poetry that dramatizes the evolution of gay awareness over the past decade with both wit and
passion. The poems are rooted in experience common to all gay men and candidly explore the myths and realities of our public
and private lives. They are also a voice for the future and touch us in as many ways as we touch each other.”
Biographical note on the author: “Born in Dayton, Ohio, on December 2, 1946, Jim Everhard was reared in the Virginia suburbs
of Washington D.C. He served a four-year enlistment in the Navy from 1966 to 1970 and, following that, spent the next eleven
years working on a B.A. in English literature from George Mason University. His poems have appeared in Gay Sunshine, Fag Rag,
Mouth of the Dragon, Hanging Loose, The Iowa Review, Epos, Painted Bride Quarterly, New: America and Canadian Poetry, several
anthologies, etc. He is currently deeply in love with an egg and is working on more writing every day.”
A23a. – Pagination and size as A23. A special issue of twenty-six copies, lettered and numbered by the author and with an
original holograph poem entitled Sex Life on p. [1]. Bound in pale blue boards, backed with gray, green and black patterned
cloth. Pale blue endpapers, with head- and tail-bands. Lettered in gilt on the frontcover: CUTE |Jim Everhard; and along the
spine on a pale blue paper label: Jim Everhard [–] CUTE. $35.00.
A24. FLESH | True Homosexual Experiences | from S.T.H. | Volume 2 | (Flesh is edited by Winston Leyland | from the magazine
S.T.H. edited by | Boyd McDonald) | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 192. 1982. Perfect bound in glazed red wrappers, printed in black, white and yellow on the frontcover, black
and yellow on the spine, and black on the backcover. Cover design by Timothy Lewis incorporating a photograph from the Athletic
Model Guild [A.M.G.] of Los Angeles. Illustrated for the most part with photographs from A.M.G., Sierra Domino, and the work
of Alan Boone. Photograph of Boyd McDonald on p. 192 by James Hamilton. An Introduction by ‘Mitzel’ occupies pp. 5-7. First
printing officially scheduled for January 1982, and so indicated on the copyright page, but actually available through retail
outlets about October 1981. ISBN 0-917342-91-7. $10.00.
“This second volume begins where Meat left off. Men write ‘with no holds barred’ about their most intimate sexual experiences.
Included are writings by working class and third world homosexuals, anthologised from the bestselling underground magazine
S.T.H.”
For a biographical note on Boyd McDonald, see A19.
For other volumes of pieces extracted from S.T.H. see entry nos. A19, A29, A32, A45.
A24a. – Second printing in January 1983 (actually available c. October 1982), with an increase in price to $12.00. Although
the pagination and size of this reissue are the same as the first edition, a number of important variant points differentiate
it. The titlepage and front cover omit any mention of Winston Leyland, and state that the book is “Edited by Boyd McDonald”.
The reverse of the titlepage (p. [4]), which carries the notice of copyright and other publication details, omits the paragraph
concerning Alan Boone's photographs in favor of the new publication date; and the advertising coupon that heads the page is
re-designed and more comprehensive than in the first edition.
A24b. – Pagination and size as A24. Third printing, 1997, with the wrappers redesigned by Rupert Kinnard and a new colour
cover photograph by Kristen Bjorn. The catalogue of ‘Books from Leyland Publication/G.S Press” on p. [191] has been updated.
$14.95.
A25. Gay | Sunshine | Interviews | Volume 2 | EDITED BY WINSTON LEYLAND | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. Pp. 288. 1982. Perfect bound in glazed purple wrappers, printed in black, white, blue and gradations of salmon, orange
and yellow on the frontcover, and white on the spine and backcover. Cover design by Speros Bairaktaris. Frontispiece is a
detail of a photograph by Steven Laffer of the editor of the volume, with a brief biographical note. Each of the interviews
is preceded by a photograph of the subject, with, in the case of the John Wieners interview, the addition of a reproduction
of a portrait in pencil. Published with the assistance of a grant from the California Arts Council. ISBN 0-917342-63-1. $10.00.
“This anthology comprises in-depth interviews with sixteen gay men involved in the arts and politics. Some of the interviews
were published originally in Gay Sunshine Journal; others appear here for the first time. They provide seminal insights into
the connections between sexuality and artistic creativity, as well as revelations on the personal and literary lives of the
interviewees.”
Thirteen of the interviews in this volume are reprinted from issues of Gay Sunshine Journal published between the years 1973-80.
Three other interviews are original, these being with Kirby Congdon, Samuel Steward and the second John Wieners interview.
Authors included in this second volume are: Harry Britt, interviewed by Winston Leyland. – James Broughton, interviewed by
Robert Peters. – Kirby Congdon, interviewed by Maurice Kenny. – Martin Duberman, interviewed by George Whitmore. – Robert
Duncan, interviewed by Steve Abbot & Aaron Shurin – Kenward Elmslie, interviewed by Winston Leyland. – Taylor Mead, interviewed
by John Giorno. – Robert Peters, interviewed by Don Mark. – Roger Peyrefitte, interviewed by D. W. Gunn. – Edouard Roditi,
interviewed by Winston Leyland. – Ned Rorem, interviewed by Winston Leyland. – Samuel Steward, interviewed by Winston Leyland.
– Mutsuo Takahashi, interviewed by Keizo Aizawa. – John Wieners, interviewed [twice] by Charley Shively. – Jonathan Williams
& Thomas Meyer, interviewed by John Browning.
Selections, in translation, from vols. I & II of Gay Sunshine Interviews appeared in two foreign-language editions. The first
appeared in two volumes from Tusquets Editore in Barcelona, Spain, in 1982 and 1983, as numbers 102 and 108 of their Cuadernos
Infimos series. Given the unfortunate title Consules de Sodoma, these volumes contain the interviews with Allen Ginsberg,
William Burroughs, John Giorno, Jean Genet, Christopher Isherwood, Lou Harrison, Roger Peyrefitte, John Rechy, Ned Rorem,
Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams. The translations were done by Eduardo Wards Simon and Homero Alsina Thevenet, with revisions
by Armand Fluvia.
The other selection, titled Sexualidade & Criacao Literaria, was published in one volume by Civilizacao Brasileira of Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, 1980. Translated into Portugese by Raul de Sa Barbosa, the interviews contained in this edition are those
with Roger Peyrefitte, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, John Rechy, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams.
A25a. – Size and pagination as A25. Hardcover edition bound in dark red cloth with head- and tail-bands. Printed in black
on the frontcover: GAY SUNSHINE | INTERVIEWS | VOLUME TWO | Edited by Winston Leyland; and along the spine: Leyland, ed. [–]
GAY SUNSHINE INTERVIEWS VOL. 2 [–] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0-917342-62-3. $20.00.
A25b. – Size and pagination as A25. A special issue of twenty-six copies, each lettered and signed by the editor. Bound in
pale lilac boards, backed with patterned grey cloth. Pale lilac endpapers, with head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust
jacket. Printed in gilt on the frontcover: Gay | Sunshine | Interviews | Volume 2 | EDITED BY WINSTON LEYLAND; and along the
spine on a paper label: GAY SUNSHINE INTERVIEWS VOL. 2. $35.00.
A26. GAY SUNSHINE JOURNAL | No. 47 | Anthology of Fiction/Poetry/Prose | Edited by Winston Leyland
9 x 6. Pp. 192. 1982. Perfect bound in glazed white wrappers, printed in black, pink and red on the front-cover, and black
on the spine and backcover. Cover drawing by Joe Fuoco, and interior artwork by Larry Rostad (frontispiece), Aloysius Herlaerts,
Tom Thompson, Joe Fuoco, Frank Holbrook, Joe Brainard and Arturo Ramirez Juarez. Photograph of Ned Rorem on p. [145] by Gianni
Bates; photograph of Winston Leyland on p. 192, uncredited. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts. ISBN 0-917342-01-1. $7.95.
Authors included in this anthology are: Frits Bernard (trans. from the Dutch by A. Ronaldson). – Lyle Glazier. – Paul Verlaine
(trans. from the French by W. Gunn). – Robert Glück. – Roy Wood. – George Birimisa. – Leigh W. Rutledge. – Joseph Torchia.
– Michael Lebeck. – Charles Warren Stoddard. – Frank Chapman. – John Stuart Anderson. – Ned Rorem. – Allen Ginsberg. – E.
A. Lacey. – Will Inman. – Dinos Christianopoulos (pseud. of Dinos Dhimitriou; trans. from the Greek by Kimon Friar). – Ron
Schreiber. – Aaron F. Steele. – Frederick Zydek. – Freddie Greenfield. – Charley Shively. – Lonnie Leard. – Jeffrey Srdich.
– Joe Bracker. – Gordon Lester–Massman. – Oswell Blakeston. – Dennis Kelly. – John Selby. – David Emerson Smith. – John T.
Kellnhauser. – Jack Veasey. – Pacifico Massimo of Ascoli/Di'Bil Ibn'Ali (trans. by Stephen W. Foster). – Jeffrey Beam.
Approximately three-quarters of the material in this collection is prose. Among the original pieces may be included the following:
Ozcan Revisited, by Lyle Glazier. – Sex Story, by Robert Glück. – Next Time, by Roy Wood. – Cissie! by George Birimisa. –
Das Blassrote, by Lee W. Rutledge. – First Communion, by Joseph Torchia. – The Charm of the Great American Desert, by Michael
Lebeck. – Toys, by Frank Chapman. – Act and Betrayal – a One Man Play, by John Stuart Anderson. In English for the first time
are Costa Brava, by Fritz Bernard, and the long version of Paul Verlaine's story Rampo (oeuvres posthumes, vol. 1, Paris,
1929).
Of the poetry in this collection, some is original–for example Allen Ginsberg's Maybe Love–while the balance is reprinted
from Gay Sunshine Journal.
For a biographical note on the editor, see A1.
Note: This is the first volume of the Gay Sunshine Journal to be published following the abandonment of its original tabloid
newspaper format. The final tabloid issue (# 46) of Gay Sunshine Journal was distributed concurrently to subscribers, so that
they received in the mail both the paper and Gay Fiction Anthology. The two were sold separately in the bookstores, however.
A26a. – Pagination and size as A26. Hardcover edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, bound in purple cloth with head- and
tail-bands. Printed in gilt on the front- cover: GAY FICTION ANTHOLOGY |Edited by Winston Leyland; and along the spine: Winston
Leyland, Ed. [–] Gay Sunshine Journal. ISBN 0-917342-00-3. $20.00.
A27. THE BOY FROM BEIRUT | and other stories | by | Robin Maugham | Edited by Peter Burton | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. [ii]+162. 1982. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers. The frontcover illustrated with a colored drawing, the
spine white and printed in black, and the backcover dark green and printed in white. Cover design by Speros Bairaktaris. Illustrated
with photographs of the author, including one by Peter Burton which acts as a frontispiece, a detail of a portrait in oils
of Maugham by David Rolt and a drawing of the author by Ian McGee. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-917342-90-9. $7.95.
“The Boy from Beirut is a collection of stories on gay themes–some fictional, some autobiographical–by Robin Maugham (1916-1981),
one of England's most prominent postwar authors. This ‘in memoriam’ volume also includes an in-depth interview with the author
in which he discusses, among other things, his relationship with his equally renowned uncle, Somerset Maugham.”
Contents: Testament: Cairo 1898 (originally published at London by Michael De Hartington and later included, together with
The Boy From Beirut, in Maugham's 1973 collection The Black Tent and Other Stories, published at London and New York by W.
H. Allen). – The Boy from Beirut and The Rest Cure (first published at London in the periodical Gay News). – Tarou (was published
originally under the title Drum in In Touch [Los Angeles]). – A While in Darkness (was first published in Quorum [England]).
– The Tea Planter, The Senussi Soldier and Dieter (were first published in Search for Nirvana, W. H. Allen, London, 1975).
– The interview with Robin Maugham by Peter Burton is reprinted from Gay Sunshine Journal no. 33/34, 1977.
Biographical note on the author: Robin Maugham was born at London in 1916, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he
studied law, although with little enthusiasm. His father was F. H. Maugham, who became Lord Chancellor under Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain. His paternal uncle was equally distinguished, being William Somerset Maugham, the novelist, short story
writer and playwright. During WWII, Robin Maugham signed up as a trooper in the Inns of Court Regiment and saw action in North
Africa, where he was wounded in the head by shell splinters. After the war, and by way of therapy, he began to write and decided
that he would follow in his uncle's footsteps and take it up professionally. Despite extensive travel, he managed to produce
a respectable body of work, including short stories, memoirs and autobiographies, twenty-five plays, eighteen novels, seven
travel books and much journalism. His novel Enemy was published by Gay Sunshine Press in 1983, in its first American edition.
(See entry A34, below.) Robin Maugham died in March, 1981.
A27a. – Pagination and size as A27. Hardcover edition, bound in blue-green cloth, with head- and tail-bands. Printed in gold
on the frontcover: Robin Maugham | THE BOY FROM BEIRUT | And Other Stories; and along the spine: ROBIN MAUGHAM [–] THE BOY
FROM BEIRUT [–] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0-917342-89-5. $20.00.
A27b. – Pagination and size as A27. A special issue of twenty-six lettered copies, bound in pale blue paper boards backed
with light khaki and gray striped cloth. Pale blue endpapers, with head- and tail-bands. Printed in red on the frontcover:
THE BOY FROM BEIRUT | Robin Maugham; and on a paper label along the spine: Robin Maugham [–] THE BOY FROM BEIRUT. $35.00.
A28. THE DISROBING | Sex and Satire | by | Royal Murdoch | EDITED BY WINSTON LEYLAND | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 112. 1982. Perfect bound in glazed blue wrappers, printed in black, green, white and red on the frontcover black
on the spine and backcover. Cover design by Frank Holbrook. Frontispiece comprising four photographs of the author, taken
over a 43 year period from 1933 to 1976. An Introduction by Winston Leyland occupies pp. 7-8. ISBN 0-917342-96-8. $5.95.
“Royal Murdoch (1898-1981) was born in California. He lived in New York City for many years and then in Mexico City for the
last two decades of his life. He won the Van Rensselaer Poetry Prize (1933) and published several volumes of poems.
“The Disrobing, an in memoriam volume, is the first collection of his gay writing, covering a fifty-year period. Included
are poems, aphorisms, journal selections, and part of an unfinished autobiographical novel.”
For a biographical note on the editor, see A1.
Some of these poems were published previously by: Gay Sunshine Journal, Fag Rag, The Fine Editions Press [Murdoch's own press],
Ipse (the magazine of the International Poetry Society). The title poem, “The Disrobing,” first appeared in Gargantua's Mouth
(New York: Fine Editions Press, 1946). Others appear here for the first time. Of the prose pieces, Criticisms and Witticisms,
Letters to Xenophon Ho, Cuba and Pedro Nel, Dream Record and Journal Fragments are all original. The Two 1930's diary excerpts,
Project Workers and a Gay and A Gay Bathouse, are extracted from Poet in Despair–A Diary of the Great Depression, 1934-1951
(7 volumes in a private edition of 6 sets; Mexico City, 1974).
A28a. – Pagination and size as A28. A special issue of twenty-six lettered copies, each containing a folded sheet, tipped
in, on which has been specially printed a poem in ten stanzas by Murdoch, entitled Ode for the Unforgotten. Bound in cream
paper boards, backed with patterned brown cloth. Cream endpapers, with head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket.
Printed in gilt on the front cover: THE DISROB-ING | Sex and Satire | Royal Murdoch; and along the spine on a paper label:
ROYAL MURDOCH [–] THE DISROBING. $35.00.
A29. SEX | True Homosexual Experiences | from S.T.H. Writers | Volume 3 | Editor: Boyd McDonald | Editor of the Anthologies:
| Winston Leyland | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 192. 1982. Perfect bound in glazed, light violet wrappers, printed in black and turquoise across the front, spine
and backcover. Cover Design by Timothy Lewis. Cover photograph, and the majority of the photographs illustrating the text,
are from the Athletic Model Guild of Los Angeles. ISBN 0-917342-98-4. $12.00.
“Sex begins where the best-selling Meat/Flesh left off. Men nationwide write with no holds barred about their true homosexual
experiences–truck drivers, models, professors, workers, Third World homosexuals… Includes almost 200 pages of hot male-male
sex stories illustrated with nude photos.”
The two earlier vols. in this series will be found described at A19 and A24, above. Later vols. are noticed at entry nos.
A32, A45. Biographical notices of Boyd McDonald and Winston Leyland are located at A19 and A1, respectively.
A29a. – Second printing in November 1985. In most respects identical with A29, except for the following important variations:
an advertisement for other S.T.H. books published by Gay Sunshine Press has been deleted. – The new publication date has been
added to the information on the copyright page. – The words “Editor of the Anthologies: | Winston Leyland” have been removed
from the titlepage. – The photograph on p. [190] has deleted and replaced with an announcement by New York Physicians for
Human Rights concerning “AIDS Safe-Sex Guidelines.” – An advertisement on p. [191] for Gay Sunshine Press publications has
been replaced with an updated advertisement incorporating new titles. – The previously blank p. [192] now has an appeal by
Boyd McDonald for more “personal accounts” of the sort published in S.T.H. and these anthologies.
A29b. – A special issue, textually identical with A29a preceding, of ten numbered and handbound copies published in the Fall
of 1986. Bound in cream boards, backed with dark green and grey patterned cloth, head- and tailbands and clear acetate dust
jacket. Printed in gilt on the frontcover: SEX | VOLUME 3; and along the spine on a paper label: SEX [–] VOLUME 3. $50.00.
A29c. – Pagination and size as A29. Third printing, 1997, with the wrappers redesigned by Rupert Kinnard and a new coloured
cover photograph by Kristen Bjorn. The catalogue of ‘Books from Leyland Publication/G.S Press” on p. [191] has been updated.
$14.95.
A30. PHYSIQUE | Photography by Bob Mizer | Edited by Winston Leyland | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
11 x 8½. Unpaged, but pp. [96]. 1982. Perfect bound in glossy white photographic wrappers, printed in black, blue and yellow
on the frontcover and black on the spine and backcover. Art direction, and an untitled Introduction occupying pp. [5,7-8],
by Timothy Lewis. 15,000 copies printed. ISBN 0-91734294-1. $18.95.
“Since the 1940's Los Angeles Athletic Model Guild has been publishing photos of America's sexiest young men–now more than
120 of these photos (color, B&W) are collected in one large volume.”
From Timothy Lewis's Introduction: “In 1945, Bob Mizer and two business associates founded the Athletic Model Guild, originally
intending it to serve as a referral service for models and Southern California photographers. Faced with one partner's death
and the other's departure to more lucrative projects, Mizer quickly began learning how to be his own photographer in order
to save the fledgling company.
“With 4x5 camera equipment, some converted space in his back yard storage rooms and a meagre crew, Bob Mizer guided the organization
towards a stylish and productive company that today has the distinction of being the oldest male model photography studio
in the country.”
For a biographical note on the editor, see A1.
A31. UNZIPPED | A Novella and Six Short Stories | by | John Coriolan | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 160. 1983. Perfect bound in glazed, light green wrappers printed in yellow, black and white on the frontcover,
black and yellow on the spine and yellow on the backcover. Cover design by Speros Bairaktaris, incorporating a detail of the
frontispiece which, together with the six other illustrations in the text, is by Tom of Finland. 10,000 copies printed. ISBN
0-917342-31-3. $7.95.
“Unzipped introduces factory workers, Key West locals (among them the backfield of a college football team), a New England
gardener, the patrons of a gay sex club, Cuban kids on a beach, a quartet of gay friends reminiscing… Through all seven pieces
runs a single theme: the explicitly detailed celebration of male-male sex, the excitement, the romance, the fun of it.”
Contents: The E-V. – Green Guavas. – Winner's Choice. –The Boys – and the Men – on the Beach. – The Three-Spoked Wheel. –
The Gardener's Helper. – The “Once in a Blue Moon” Variations. Two of these stories appeared previously in a collection entitled
Seven Ways from Sunday published at New York in 1972 by the Olympia Press in their “Other Traveller” series, and a third in
Stallion Magazine (issue for March, 1983).
Biographical note on the author: ‘John Coriolan’ is the nom-de-plume of Key West author William Corrington. His first acclaim
came with his novel A Sand Fortress (N.Y.: Universal Publishing, 1968), the text of which was later revised and expanded for
a reprint by Gay Sunshine Press (see entry A38). A collection of short stories was published in 1972, as noted in the preceded
paragraph, and he has published a number of pieces in gay magazines.
For other books by the same author published by Gay Sunshine Press, see entry nos. A39, A40, and A49.
A31a. – Pagination and size as A31. Special issue of twenty-six numbered copies, signed by the author. The notice of limitation
is printed on a sticker affixed to p. [4], the reverse of the titlepage. Bound in pale lilac paper boards, backed with patterned
green cloth. Pale lilac endpapers, head- and tailbands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed in gilt on the frontcover: UNZIPPED
| John Coriolan; and along the spine on a paper label: John Coriolan [–] UNZIPPED. $35.00.
A32. CUM | True Homosexual Experiences | from S.T.H. Writers | Volume 4 | Editor: Boyd McDonald | Gay Sunshine Press | San
Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 192. 1983. Perfect bound in glazed light grey wrappers, printed in black and white, orange and blue on the frontcover
and spine, and blue on the backcover. Cover design by Timothy Lewis, incorporating a photograph by Mike Arlen, of the Wetherby
Studios, London, England. Interior photographs drawn from, among other sources, Sierra Domino and the Athletic Model Guild
of Los Angeles. Photograph of Boyd McDonald on p. 192 by James Hamilton; “Hair design by Atlas Barber School.” ISBN 0-917342-30-5
$12.00.
From the Introduction by Boyd McDonald: “This is the fourth anthology of letters written by readers of the magazine I founded,
S.T.H. (Straight to Hell): The New York Review of Cocksucking.
“This book differs from its three predecessors, also published by Gay Sunshine Press [see A19, A24 & A29], in that most of
the letters in it have never been published before. (Despite the fact that previous volumes contained large amounts of material
reprinted from the magazine, the books were greeted with enthusiasm by reviewers and buyers; hence this one, with its greater
wealth of new material, is destined to become almost insufferably inspiring.)
“In my lovely home, I still have shopping bags full of unpublished letters. New ones arrive daily. I hope to put all of those
which are true into other books pronto; after all, I am inspired by them too.”
Other volumes in this series will be found at entry nos. A19, A24, A29 & A45. For a biographical note on the editor, see entry
A19.
A33. THE BOY HARLEQUIN | and other stories | Girard Kent | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 208. 1983. Perfect bound in glazed dark blue wrappers, printed in yellow and white on the frontcover and spine,
and yellow on the backcover. Color illustration on the frontcover, and cover design, by Speros Bairaktaris. ISBN 0-917342-29-1.
$7.95.
“A Southern gay writer combines eroticism with humor in 14 skillfully crafted short stories. In The Voice of Jefferson a son
discovers his father's homosexuality; in Roberto an older man struggles to deny his love for an adolescent boy; in The Mighty
Jexters a secret sex club at a boys' school blackmails a gay priest.”
In addition to the titles listed above, this collection includes the following stories: The Souvenir. – The Missing Link.
– The Boy Harlequin. – The Dancing Bear. – A Case of Blackmail. – Rio de Arena. – Pink Zebras. – Secrets. – The “Splendiferous
Dicks” Affair. – Two Boys. – The Man Who Would Speak for God.
‘Girard Kent’ is the nom-de-plume of Texas writer Lon Rogers. The Boy Harlequin is his first book.
A33a. – Pagination and size as A33. A special issue of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the author. Bound in cream paper
boards backed with patterned blue cloth. Cream endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed in blue
on the frontcover: THE BOY HARLEQUIN | Girard Kent; and on a paper label along the spine: Girard Kent [–] THE BOY HARLEQUIN.
ISBN 0-917342-30-5. $35.00.
A33b. – Second printing in 1985. Identical with A33, except for the addition of the new publication date to the information
on p. [4].
A34. ENEMY | A NOVEL | Robin Maugham | GAY SUNSHINE PRESS | SAN FRANCISCO
8½ x 5½. Pp. 160. 1983. Perfect bound in glazed pictorial wrappers, printed in light magenta and blue on the frontcover, black
and light magenta on white on the spine and yellow on maroon on the backcover. Color illustration on the frontcover, and cover
design, by Speros Bairaktaris. An Author's Note occupies p. [157]. ISBN 0-917342-25-9. $7.95.
This constitutes the first American edition. Enemy was originally published in 1981 in London, England, by William Kimber
& Co. under the title The Deserters.
“The last novel of Robin Maugham follows a pattern that began with his first and most famous book, The Servant. It is a careful,
detailed study in fiction of the relationships between two characters. 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 absurd… Robin Maugham gives many insights into the different backgrounds that brought them together.”
– Birmingham Post.
“Enemy was Robin Maugham's last novel before he died, and is based on an incident which occurred to him while on active service
in the war. Like much of his fiction it is set out of England and preoccupied with the working class and homosexuality… It
has a customary polished technique which will delight the many Robin Maugham admirers…” – Times Literary Supplement.
See entry A27, above, for The Boy From Beirut, a collection of stories by Robin Maugham published by Gay Sunshine Press, and
for a biographical note on this well-known English author.
A34a. – Pagination and size as A34. Hardcover edition which, although not indicated as such in the book, has a limitation
of 200 unnumbered copies. Bound in pale green cloth, with head- and tail-bands. Printed in black on the frontcover: ROBIN
MAUGHAM |ENEMY; and along the spine: ROBIN MAUGHAM [–] ENEMY [–] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0-917342-26-7. $20.00.
A35. MY DEEP DARK PAIN | IS LOVE | A Collection of Latin American | Gay Fiction | Edited by Winston Leyland | Translated from
Spanish and Portugese | by E. A. Lacey | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. Pp. 384. 1983. Perfect bound in glazed burgundy wrappers, printed in yellow and gradations of pink through blue and
green on the frontcover, yellow and blue on the spine and yellow in the backcover. Cover design by Speros Bairaktaris. Frontispiece
and drawing on p. [14] by the Argentinian artist Jorge Gumier Maier. An Editor's Foreword occupies p. 6, and a Translator's
Introduction pp. 7-13. Published with the assistance of a grant from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. ISBN
0-917342-03-8. $10.00.
Note: This volume constitutes Gay Sunshine Journal in its annual book anthology form, comprising issues 48-53, and is the
last such publication. It was distributed by mail to subscribers, but sold in bookstores as a regular book and not as a magazine.
“This is an in-depth anthology of fiction on gay themes by twenty-four writers, among them the internationally acclaimed Manuel
Puig (Argentina), Mário de Andrade (Brazil), and Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba). The book presents Latin American gays as part of
a lively, fascinating social reality–as soldiers, businessmen, office workers, students, cattle ranchers, circus performers…
Included are two complete novellas–one about homosexuality in the marines, the other about a sexual encounter between two
high-school boys; also the brilliant ‘Orgy’–an erotic diary based on experiences in tropical Brazil. Almost 400 pages with
thirty different selections by a dazzling array of talent.”
Authors included in this anthology are, from Argentina: “Lucio Ginarte” [pseud. of Tulio Carella]. – Néstor Perlongher. –
Carlos Correas. – Manuel Puig. – Carlos Arcidiácono. From Mexico: Luis Zapata. From Cuba: Reinaldo Arenas. – Vicente Echerri.
From Chile: Jorge Marchant Lazcano. From Brazil: Aníbal Machado. – Mário de Andrade. – Rubem Fonseca. – Gasparino Damato.
–Darcy Penteado. – Paulo Hecker Filho. – Caio Fernando Abreu. – Luiz Canabrava. – Raimundo Magalhaes Jr. – Jorge Domingos.
– “Glauco Mattoso” [pseud.]. – Dalton Trevisan. – Miroel Silveira. – Alexandre Ribondi. – Raul Pompéia. Biographical notes
on the authors are printed at the conclusion of their contributions.
Of the contributions included in this anthology, which all appear here in English for the first time, the following are original
and hitherto unpublished: The Red Dancing Shoes, by Luis Zapata. – End of a Story, by Renaldo Renas. – Double Nine, by Vincente
Echerri. – Killing the Lady of the Carmelias, by Jorge Marchant Lazcano. – The Wedding of the King of Spades and The Story
the Ballads don't Tell, by Jorge Domingos. – The Saddest Thing Is That It's Over, by “Glauco Mattoso.” – The Blue Crime, by
Alexandre Ribondi.
For biographical notes on the editor and translator, see entries A1 and A21 respectively.
A35a. – Pagination and size as A35. Hardcover edition, bound in dark blue cloth with head- and tail-bands. Printed in gilt
on the frontcover: MY DEEP DARK PAIN | IS LOVE; and along the spine: LEYLAND/LACEY [–] MY DEEP DARK PAIN IS LOVE [–] Gay Sunshine
Press. ISBN 0-917342-02-X. $20.00.
A35b. – Pagination and size as A35. A special issue of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the editor and translator. [The
translator's signature is tipped-in.] Bound in cream paper boards, backed with patterned blue cloth. Cream endpapers, head-
and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed in gilt on the frontcover: MY DEEP DARK PAIN | IS LOVE; and on a paper
label along the spine: LEYLAND / LACEY [–] MY DEEP DARK PAIN IS LOVE. $50.00.
[Note: Most of this material was gathered by Leyland during several visits Leyland made to Latin America in the 1977-1982
period.]
A36. BLACK MEN/WHITE MEN | A Gay Anthology | Edited by Michael J. Smith | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 240. 1983. Perfect bound in glazed cream wrappers, printed in black and red on the frontcover, spine and backcover.
Cover design by Lois Grimm, incorporating a photograph, inset, by David Greene. Photographic frontispiece by David Greene,
and the text illustrated with photos by, among others, Calvin Anderson of Sierra Domino, and drawings by Calvin Anderson,
Ross Paxton and Michael Grumley. ISBN 0-917342-27-5. $8.95.
“For the first time, the Black and interracial gay experience in White America. An anthology of short stories, personal reminiscences,
interviews, political articles, poems, photos, art – from the most scholarly to the most explicit, by 43 writers, artists.”
Contributors to this anthology are: Eric Garber. – Bruce Nugent. – Langston Hughes. – Salih Michael Fisher. – Ron Vernon.
– Joel Ensana. – Richard Royal. – Jamiel Daud Hessim. – Jeffrey Beam. – Thom Beame. – Richard Witherspoon. – Mark J. Ameen.
– Wayne Alexandre. – Jim Brewer Jr. – Darryl Towles. – Adrian Stanford. – Lyle Glazier. – Jerome Thornton. – Joe DeMarco.
– Michael J. Smith. – Will Inman. – Larry Duplechan. – Charlie Shively. – Leonard Patterson. – James S. Tinney. – Paul Thomas
Cahill. – Gabe Sims. – G. S. Weinerman. – Richard Royal. – “Prince Eusi-Ndugu.” – Paul Barrett. – “Troop” [pseud.]. – Roosevelt
Williamson. – Louie Crew. – Robert Thorpe. – “Benjamin James”. Biographical notes on the contributors are gathered together
at the conclusion of the book, between pp. 232-238.
The following contributions to this collection are original and unpublished elsewhere: Assumption about the Harlem Brown Baby
[poem], by Salih Michael Fisher. – The Long Hard Run [short story], by Joel Ensana. – Black Angel [poem], by Richard Royal.
– You Go Off With My Life and Leave Taking [2 poems], by Jeffrey Beam. – A.R. [poem], by Richard Witherspoon. – Transit House
[short story], by Mark J. Ameen. – Interview With a Black Homosexual Masochist [self-interview], by Wayne Alexandre. – Chester
[short story], by Lyle Glazier. – A Memory: Sana's [poem], by Jerome Thornton. – tenderness more fiercer than torture [poem],
by Will Inman. – Peanuts and the Old Spice Kid [short story], by Lawrence Duplechan. – The Reunion [short story], by Paul
Thomas Cahill. – A Fine White Boy [true story], by Gabe Sims. – Brazil [poem], by “Troop.” – A Personal Testimony [autobiographical
sketch], by “Benjamin James.” The balance of the material is reprinted from gay periodicals and other sources.
Biographical note on the editor: “Michael J. Smith… is the founder of Black and White Men Together, which now has branches
in most major American Cities. He was born in 1944 in Culver City, California, and is the author of Colorful People and Places,
a Gay/Lesbian interracial and Third World guidebook. He also edits and publishes the Quarterly, a similarly oriented periodical…
Mike is ‘still learning’ and becomes ‘touchy when it gets too painful.’”
A36a. – Pagination and size as A36. Hardcover edition, bound in black cloth, with head- and tail-bands. Printed in gilt on
the frontcover: BLACK MEN / WHITE MEN; and along the spine: Smith, ed. [–] BLACK MEN/WHITE MEN [–] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN
0-917342-28-3. $20.00.
A36b. – Pagination and size as A36. A special issue of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the author. Bound in white paper
boards, backed with black and grey patterned cloth. Head- and tail-bands, and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed in black
on the frontcover: BLACK MEN/WHITE MEN; and along the GAY SUNSHINE PRESS
A36c. – Pagination and size as A36. Reprinted 1999, with the wrappers redesigned by Steve Postman, and a new colour cover
photograph by Kristen Bjorn. Page [1] has been reset to carry a dedication and obituary notice of the editor, Michael J. Smith,
who died in 1989. $15.95.
A37. SEX BEHIND BARS | A Novella, Short Stories | and | True Accounts | Robert N. Boyd | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 240. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. Frontcover black, printed in white, silver and red, and incorporating
a photograph from the Athletic Model Guild (A.M.G.) of Los Angeles. Spine black, and printed in silver and red. Backcover
silver, and printed in black. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Frontispiece, a photograph from A.M.G. Although officially scheduled
for release in early 1984, Sex Behind Bars was actually available through retail outlets in early November 1983. ISBN 0-917342-34-8.
$10.00.
First collected edition; with the exception of the first six pieces in the contents list below, which are original and unpublished
elsewhere, the material in this volume appeared originally in the following periodicals: Mandate. – In Touch. – First Hand.
– Blueboy. – Honcho. – Numbers.
Contents: Prison Sports [non-fiction]. – Prison Slaves [non-fiction]. – Who's Kidding Who? [fiction]. – Cellmates [fiction].
– What Goes Around [fiction]. – No One Ever Wins [fiction]. – Life Behind Bars [non-fiction]. – Prison Slang [non-fiction].
– Sex Behind Bars [non-fiction]. – Prison Sex [non-fiction]. – Slippery Sex [non-fiction]. – Butch Virgins [non-fiction].
The following pieces are all fiction: Tank Boss. – Prisoners. – “The Hole”. – Going Home.
The author, who has served time in Nevada, writes: “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.” Writes Blueboy: “Boyd is an excellent writer. The erotic encounters
between his men–both fictional and real–have an authenticity rarely seen. If the truth will make you free, then Robert N.
Boyd is flying above our heads, for his writing glows with it.”
A37a. – Pagination and size as A37. A special issue of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the author. Bound in pale blue
paper boards, backed with patterned blue and light grey cloth. Pale blue endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate
dust jacket. Printed in black on the front cover: SEX BEHIND BARS | Robert N. Boyd; and along the spine on a paper label:
Robert N. Boyd [–] SEX BEHIND BARS. $35.00.
A37b. – Second printing of paperback version in November 1990, with price increase to $14.95. Appropriate changes to copyright
page, and deletion of reference to the limited edition.
A37c. - 1995.
A38. TELENY | A Novel Attributed to | OSCAR WILDE | EDITED BY WINSTON LEYLAND | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 184. 1984. Perfect bound in dark blue glazed wrappers. Frontcover illustrated with a photograph by Baron von
Gloeden of a young Sicilian boy superimposed over a photograph of Oscar Wilde, and lettered in white and pale salmon. Spine
printed in pale salmon and white, and backcover in pale salmon. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. The frontispiece, a portrait
of Wilde taken during his American lecture tour of 1882, is reproduced from a photograph by Napoleon Sarony. An Introduction
by the editor, giving a history of the novel, occupies pp. 5-19. Although officially scheduled for release in early 1984,
Teleny was actually available through retail outlets late in 1983. ISBN 0-917342-33-X. $7.95.
“This brilliant erotic novel, attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle, was first published in an underground edition of 200
copies in 1893. It deals with the love between two men in Victorian England–one of them the handsome, 24-year-old pianist
Rene Teleny; the other a young man-about-town, Camille Des Grieux. The book was originally published anonymously because no
one in England (least of all Oscar Wilde) could afford to acknowledge open authorship of a book in which homosexual acts are
described minutely and celebrated with abandon. And Teleny certainly leaves nothing to the imagination. It is a veritable
catalogue of gay lovemaking, and may indeed be rightly considered the first gay novel in the English language.
“This is the first unexpurgated edition of the novel, based on the original manuscript. An in-depth introduction by editor
Winston Leyland puts the novel in historical and literary perspective and presents the arguments in favor of Wilde's involvement.”
Bibliographical note: This novel was originally published, sub rosa, in two volumes at London in 1893, printed by H.S. Nichols
for Leonard Smithers, Oscar Wilde’s publisher. In his splendid Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800-1930 (London: Scolar
Press, 1993), Mr. Peter Mendes draws attention to a unique copy of the first edition of Teleny that once formed part of the
famous erotica collection be-longing to George Mountbatten (c. 1892-1938), second Marquis of Milford Haven. This copy contains
a set of etchings in proof, and four photographs of original drawings, specially prepared for it by Albert Letchford (1866-1905),
the illustrator of Burton’s Arabian Nights. It appears that Smithers was intending to publish Teleny in an illustrated edition,
but either cost or fear of prosecution (the plates are explicitly erotic) obliged him to abandon the plan. This copy is now
in a fine collection in London. An extended note on Albert Letchford will be found in Appendix C of Norman Penzer’s Annotated
Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton (London: 1923).
For a biographical note on the editor, see entry no. A1.
A38a. – Pagination and size as A38. Hardcover edition, limited to 200 unnumbered copies, bound in pale mustard cloth, with
head- and tail-bands. Printed in dark blue on the frontcover: TELENY | OSCAR WILDE; and along the spine: Attributed to | OSCAR
WILDE [–] TELENY [–] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0-917342-32-1. $20.00.
A38b. – Pagination and size as A38. Special issue of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the editor. Bound in pale pink
paper boards, backed with dark red and grey-red striped cloth. Pale pink endpapers, head- and tailbands and clear acetate
dustjacket. Printed on the frontcover: TELENY | OSCAR WILDE; and along the spine on a paper label: OSCAR WILDE [–] TELENY.
$35.00.
A39. A | SAND | FORTRESS | A Novel | by | John Coriolan | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 224. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed black wrappers, printed in yellow, white and gold on the frontcover and spine,
and red and white on the backcover. Frontcover illustration by “Rex.” Cover design by Timothy Lewis. ISBN 0-917342-46-1. $8.95.
A Sand Fortress was first published at New York in 1968 by Award Books, a subsidiary of Universal Publishing Co., and reissued
ten years later, in 1978, by Charter Communications Inc., also of New York. The present Gay Sunshine Press edition of the
novel has been revised and expanded by the author. See entries A31, A40 and A49 for Unzipped, The Smile of Eros and Dream
Stud, three other books by John Coriolan published by Gay Sunshine Press.
“Handsome Mike Kincade met charming 20-year-old Caswell Green on the beach, fell head over heels in love and succeeded in
persuading the young man to share his life–a true refuge from the terrors and fears Caswell suffered. But like all the sand
fortresses Caswell constructed, their relationship crumbled and Mike was faced with the raw reality of his own needs.
“Acclaimed as ‘the most penetrating and perceptive novel of homosexuality ever published,’ A Sand Fortress… will surely be
a revelation for many new readers.”
A39a. [no copy]– Pagination and size as A39. Special issue of ten handbound and numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound
in fawn boards, backed with brown, gold, orange and grey striped cloth. Fawn endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate
dust jacket. Printed in black on the frontcover: A | SAND | FORTRESS | John Coriolan; and along the spine on a paper label:
JOHN CORIOLAN [–] A SAND FORTRESS. $50.00.
A40. THE SMILE OF EROS | A novel by | John Coriolan | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 192. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. The frontcover is printed in purple and blue against a black and
white photograph by Tony Patriolo, extracted from Mediterraneo (Milan: Babilonia Edizioni, 1984). The spine and backcover
are purple, printed in black. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts. ISBN 0-9173239-9. $7.95.
The Smile of Eros is an original novel by this important gay writer. See entries A31, A39 and A49 for three other books by
him published by Gay Sunshine Press.
“At 42 handsome, endowed Gunnar Lindquist has apparently achieved success in life. Married, healthy, respected in his own
field, wise in the ways of the world, he nonetheless feels a mysterious need for something more, something different. Attracted
to certain men, he has fended off their advances since army days but now he cannot resist doing some indiscreet flaunting
and to allow himself to be seduced.
“Gunnar ‘comes out’ and after deliberate experimentation in gay sex, sets about winning Jed, a spirited young straight with
whom he falls in love–until he is alarmed by the strange, phallic passion he has aroused in the younger man.”
A40a. [no copy] – Pagination and size as A40. Special issue of ten handbound and numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound
in pale green boards, backed with green and grey patterned cloth. Pale green endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate
dust jacket. Printed in gilt on the front cover: THE SMILE OF EROS | John Coriolan; and along the spine on a paper label:
John Coriolan [–] THE SMILE OF EROS. $50.00.
A41. CORPORAL IN CHARGE OF | TAKING CARE OF | CAPTAIN O'MALLEY | and other stories | Jack Fritscher | Gay Sunshine Press |
San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 184. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. Frontcover green, printed in red and black, and incorporating a
drawing by “Rex” and a photograph by David Hurles/Old Reliable Studio. Spine and backcover grey, with spine printed in red
and black and backcover in black only. Interior photographs, including the frontispiece, by David Hurles/Old Reliable Studios.
Five drawings by “Rex.” ISBN 0-917342-45-3. $10.00.
First collected edition; with the exception of the first six pieces in the contents list below, which are original and unpublished
elsewhere, the material in this volume appeared originally in the following periodicals: Skin. – The Target Album. – In Touch.
– Just Men. – The California Action Guide. – Drummer. – Man2Man.
Contents: Nooner Sex: Humping Straight Daddies. – Officer Mike: San Francisco's Finest. – Cruising the Merchant Marine. –
Caro Ricardo. – By Blonds Obsessed. – The List. – A Sucker for Uncut Dick. – Teenage Jerk Circle: Anticipation. – Big Beefy
College Jocks. – The Princeton Rub. – Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O'Malley. – USMC Slapcaptain. – Black-and-White
Doublefuck. – Hustler Bars. – Young Deputy: k-9 Dog Dik. –Selfsucker. – Silver Screen Castro Blues. – The Best Dirty-Blond
Contractor in Texas. – Earthorse: Harvest. – Titsports: Our Pex Belong To the Sundance, Kid! – Wet Dreams and Golden Showers.
Biographical note on the author: Jack Fritscher's erotic fiction, frequently on leather and S&M themes, has appeared in a
number of gay magazines, two of which–Drummer and Man2Man–he edited himself. He currently resides in Sebastopol, California.
See entry A42 for another book by this Bay Area author published by Gay Sunshine Press.
A41a. – Pagination and size as A41. Special issue of ten numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in green boards, backed
with patterned torquoise and grey/blue cloth. Green endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed
in black on the frontcover: CORPORAL IN CHARGE OF | TAKING CARE OF |CAPTAIN O'MALLEY | Jack Fritscher; and along the spine
on a paper label: JACK FRITSCHER [–] CORPORAL IN CHARGE OF | TAKING CARE OF | CAPTAIN O'MALLEY. $50.00.
A42. LEATHER BLUES | The Adventures of Denny Sargent | A Novel | by | Jack Fritscher | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 94. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed black wrappers, printed in blue and white on the frontcover and spine, and
white on the backcover. Cover design, incorporating a drawing by “Rex”, by Timothy Lewis. Frontispiece by “Rex”, repeating
the drawing on the frontcover. ISBN 0-917342-49-6. $5.95.
“This exquisitely crafted novel of initiation into bikes, leather, S&M, and man-to-man sex pulls no punches when Denny Sargent
begins the inferno rites of passage all men must courageously endure to seal their special male bonding. Leather Blues is
an intimately sophisticated odyssey of hard balling sex, of untender mercies, and of the nighthawks men call ‘Riders on the
Storm.’”
Leather Blues is an original novel by this Bay Area author. See entry A41 for another book by him published by Gay Sunshine
Press.
A42a. – Pagination and size as A42. Special issue of ten numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in black boards, backed
with patterned blue cloth. Black endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed in gold on the frontcover:
LEATHER BLUES | Jack Fritscher; and along the spine on a paper label: Jack Fritscher [–] LEATHER BLUES. $50.00.
A43. PRETTY BOY DEAD | A Novel | Joseph Hansen | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. [ii]+206. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. Frontcover, a color illustration by Speros Bairaktaris, lettered
in purple, blue and yellow. Spine white, printed in blue and purple. Backcover, dark grey and printed in white. Cover design
by Speros Bairaktaris. ISBN 0-917342-48-8. $8.95.
“Scorned by his family, defeated by society, Steve was at a major crossroads in his life. His marriage had gone sour, his
hopes as a playwright dashed. Confused and friendless, Steven turned to pretty boy Coy Randol for love and support. But then
Coy was found brutally murdered and there was only one person the police suspected: Steve.”
About this book and its author: “Since 1970, [the Los Angeles based] Joseph Hansen's mystery novels have gained critical acclaim.
Through seven books, from Fadeout to Nightwork, Hansen's tough, compassionate gay insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter,
has become one of the best known of all fictional detectives.
“But Hansen's uncommon talent for the mystery novel first revealed itself in 1968, with the publication of Known Homosexual
[North Hollywood, Ca.: Brandon House], written under the name James Colton. Nine years later, the book re-surfaced briefly
as Stranger to Himself [Canoga Park, Ca.: Major Books, 1977], but few Hansen fans have seen either book.
“Now, Gay Sunshine Press is pleased to make available this underground classic in an authentic new edition, carrying the author's
original title. In Pretty Boy Dead, readers will find the same honesty and tenderness that marks Hansen's later books, the
same unmistakably human characters and situations, the same shrewdness, wit, and sharp-edged writing.”
A43a. – Pagination and size as A43. Special issue of ten numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in black boards, backed
with black and pale brown patterned cloth. Black endpapers, head- and tail bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed in
gold on the frontcover: PRETTY BOY DEAD | Joseph Hansen; and along the spine on a paper label: Joseph Hansen [–] PRETTY BOY
DEAD. $50.00.
A44. URBAN | ABORIGINALS | A Celebration of | Leathersexuality | GEOFF MAINS | GAY SUNSHINE PRESS • SAN FRANCISCO
8½ x 5½. Pp. [ii]+187. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. Frontcover, a red-tinted black & white photograph by Robert
Pruzan, lettered in yellow and in black within grey panels. Spine in black, printed in red and white. Black backcover, printed
in red with an inset B & W photograph of the author by Mark I. Chester. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Frontispiece and eight
photographs by Robert Pruzan. ISBN 0-91734238-0. $8.95.
“A subculture of Gay men participate in a radical form of sexuality and community known as leather. Through intimate forms
of play, using such tools as painpleasure, bondage, and role-play, leather activity strips away frustrating cultural patterns.
Often, this play at the edge brings transcendence, the shift of consciousness, the exploration of new mind-space and a new
vision of the self.
“This innovative book pioneers in sensitively exploring, probing and celebrating leathersexuality–with such chapters as Anatomy
of a Culture, The Flowers of Pain, Bondage and Inner Peace, Celebration of the Hidden Animal, and The Prison of the Flesh.
“Author Geoffrey Mains was trained in biochemistry and ecology at the universities of Toronto and British Columbia, and in
community, culture, and politics in Vancouver and San Francisco. He currently commutes between the two cities.” Out of print,
Nov. 1990.
A44a. – Pagination and size as A44. A Special issue of twenty-six numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in cream paper
boards, backed with dark rust and grey-red striped cloth. Cream endpapers, with head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dustjacket.
Printed in dark blue on the frontcover: URBAN | ABORIGINALS; and along the spine on a paper label: GEOFF MAINS [–] Urban Aboriginals.
$35.00.
A44b. – A NEW EDITION, published in 1991. The contents are identical to the original edition, although the following differences
in design and editorial matter should be noted. Black wrappers; the frontcover is illustrated with a drawing by Kent Neffendorf
and, within a red band, a stylized city skyline. The title, subtitle and author’s name are printed in pink against a black
background. Spine printed in pink. Backwrapper is illustrated with b&w photo of the author within a broad red border, and
some publisher’s promotional matter, price and publisher’s name are printed in pink. The publisher’s promotional material
is the same as the original edition, except for the removal of the sentence “He currently commutes between the two cities”
which is replaced with “He died in 1989.” A quote from a review in the periodical Advocate is added: “A pioneering book with
ground-breaking and startling conclusions.” The copyright page has some changes reflecting the fact that this is a new edition,
including the name of Kent Neffendorf as designer. There is no ISBN, the new edition presumably inheriting that of the original,
and the price is increased to $14.95. The pagination of the new edition is increased to 190 by the addition of a leaf, printed
on one side only, of advertisements for other Gay Sunshine publications.
A45. JUICE | True Homosexual Experiences | from S.T.H Writers |Volume 5 | Editor: Boyd McDonald | Gay Sunshine Press | San
Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 208. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed turquoise wrappers, printed in orange and white on the frontcover and spine
and white on the backcover. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Frontcover photograph, frontispiece and all interior photographs
from the Old Reliable/David Hurles Studio of Hollywood. ISBN 0-917342-36-4. $12.00.
“This fifth volume in Gay Sunshine's bestselling S.T.H. series begins where the previous volumes (Meat/ Flesh/Sex/Cum) left
off. Men nationwide write with no holds barred about their true experiences–such pieces as Navy Sex Hound, Cocksucking in
Contemporary Culture, Likes to Strip While Men Watch, How Big is Your Cock? etc., plus new material by editor Boyd McDonald–The
Joy of Heterosexuality, Great Moments in Television, etc. Includes more than 200 pages of sexually explicit stories, interviews
and reviews…”
Earlier vols. in this series will be found described at entry nos. A19, A24, A29, A32. A Biographical notice of the editor,
Boyd McDonald, will be found at A19.
A45a. – Size and pagination as A45. A special issue of ten numbered copies, signed by Boyd McDonald; no limitation notice
appears in the book, however. Bound in pale green boards, backed with cloth striped medium green, pale green, black and off-white.
Pale green endpapers endpapers, with head- and tail-bands and clear acetate just jacket. Printed in black on the frontcover:
JUICE | Volume 5; and along the spine on a paper label: JUICE [–] Volume 5.
A46. FACING IT | A Novel of Aids | PAUL REED | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. [ii]+222. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. Frontcover, a dark blue silhouette of a face on a lilac background,
lettered in dark blue and black. Spine and backcover dark blue, printed in white. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Published
with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-91734244-5. $7.95.
“In midsummer 1981 when Andy Stone's health began to fail, doctors could not diagnose his condition. Then news of the immune
deficiency syndrome began to spread, and Andy, his lover and family had to face the inevitable diagnosis. Set against a background
of medical politics, this stunning first novel by San Francisco writer Paul Reed follows Andy's proud struggle to understand
his illness and to reconcile the conflicts it presents. In a rare achievement of art from tragedy, we experience the crisis
of AIDS through the eyes of this young man stricken with the mysterious syndrome.
“Paul Reed was born in San Diego in 1956. He currently resides in San Fran-cisco, and is a member of the staff of the Berkeley
publishing firm Ten Speed Press/Celestial Arts.” Under the name “Max Exander,” Mr. Reed has published with Gay Sunshine Press
a collection of stories entitled Mansex. (See entry A51.)
A46a. [no copy]– Pagination and size as A46. Special issue of ten numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in pale blue
boards, backed with patterned blue cloth. Pale blue endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed
in blue on the frontcover: FACING IT | PAUL REED; and along the spine on a paper label: Paul Reed [–] FACING IT. $50.00.
A47. HADRIAN | A Novel | Joel Schmidt | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 192. 1984. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. Frontcover, color painting by Jim Chase, lettered in yellow and
white. Dark orange spine and backcover; printed in yellow and white on the spine, and black on the backcover. Cover design
by Timothy Lewis. Photographic frontispiece reproducing busts of Hadrian and Antinous, the originals of which are preserved
in the Museo di Roma. Uncredited drawing of the author on p. [192]. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-91734241-0. $7.95.
“In this superbly crafted [original] novel, the second century Roman Emperor Hadrian tells his life story: from his boyhood
as the adopted son of Trajan, through his young manhood with its sexual and spiritual initiations, to mature adulthood and
accession to imperial power. Highlighted is his intense love affair with the handsome young adolescent, Antinous.”
Joel Schmidt currently lives at Denver. Hadrian is his first novel.
A47a. – Paginations and size as A47. Special issue of ten numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in cream boards, backed
with grey, orange and brown patterned cloth. Cream endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed
in gold on the front cover: HADRIAN | Joel Schmidt; and along the spine on a paper label: Joel Schmidt [–] HADRIAN. $50.00.
A48. MY BROTHER, | MY LOVER | A Novel | Tim Barrus | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 128. 1985. Perfect bound glazed purple card wrappers, printed in yellow and white on the frontcover and spine,
and white on the backcover. Cover design by Timothy Lewis, incorporating a color drawing by Richard White set within a circular
vignette. ISBN 0-917342-08-9. $7.95.
“Thomas and Sean lost their parents when they were in their teens. Thrown together even more than before, their love grew,
deepened, became sexual… Then Thomas moved away to search out his self-identity and Sean was left alone to explore his gay
sexuality in San Francisco's streets and cruising areas.
“Their story is about struggle; about being connected to something; about strong, unbreakable ties – flesh and blood. And
an intense, unspeakable love.
Tim Barrus is a free-lance journalist/writer, currently living at Key West, Florida.”
A48a. – Pagination and size as A48. Special issue of ten handbound and numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in pale
cream boards backed with two-tone brown cloth. Pale cream endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed
in blue on the frontcover: MY BROTHER | MY LOVER | Tim Barrus; and along the spine on a paper label: MY BROTHER MY LOVER [–]
Tim Barrus. $50.00.
A49. Dream | Stud | [line of type decoration] | and other stories | John Coriolan | [line of type decoration] Gay Sunshine
Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 160. Perfect bound in glazed red card wrappers, printed in black, red and yellow on the frontcover, yellow and
black on the spine and yellow on the backcover. Cover design by Timothy Lewis, incorporating a black and white drawing by
“Rex.” ISBN 0-917342-04-6. $7.95.
“DREAM STUD is a collection of [original] short stories by Key West author John Coriolan, author of the best-selling Unzipped,
A Sand Fortress, and The Smile of Eros. [See entries A31, A39 and A40 respectively in this bibliography.] Included are such
well-crafted stories as “Kindred” (Southern decadence raised to a new height); ‘In the Blaire’s Lair’ (hot goings-on in a
college dorm); ‘Counting Coup’(a country cousin discovers that gay bars in Montana were never like this).”
Contents: Dream Stud. – The G’issimo. – A Marriage, a Mantra, a Massage. – Kindred. – In the Blaire’s Lair. – As You’d Like
It. – Interview in the Number Two Dressing Room. – Counting Coup.
A49a. – A limited edition of 10 numbered copies, signed by the author, was advertised but seems not have been issued.
A50. [rule] | BAYOU BOY | AND OTHER STORIES | [rule] | LARS EIGHNER | [rule] GAY SUNSHINE PRESS • SAN FRANCISCO [rule]
8½ x 5½. Pp. 160. 1985. Perfect bound in glazed medium blue card wrappers, printed in magenta and white on the frontcover
and spine, and white on the backcover. Cover design by Timothy Lewis, incorporating a black and white drawing by Richard White.
ISBN 0-917342-06-2. $7.95.
“The sons of cowboys and roughnecks meet the men who flock to the sunbelt in search of work and each other in these superbly
written erotic stories by a Texas author. Features the Houston Streets stories which tell of Mike's growing up in a neighborhood
growing gays. Also other stories such as ‘Biker Boy,’ ‘A Cowboy Christmas,’ ‘Texarkana.’”
Contents: Biker Boy*. – The Burnout Kid*. – A Cowboy Christmas*. – Bayou Boy. – Duel*. – Texarkana*. [Houston Streets:] Park.
– Woodhead. – Fairview. – Waugh*. – Yoakum: The Cruising Circuit. – Greenbriar. – Highway 71*. – Bertner: Emergency Room*.
– Windsor. – Westheimer. – Montrose Boulevard.
Of these eighteen stories, those with an asterisk previously appeared, mostly under different titles, in the periodicals Blueboy,
Advocate MEN and MACH 7; the texts published here have almost all been revised specially for this volume by the author. The
remaining ten stories are original, and are published here for the first time.
Lars Eighner's short fiction appears in a number of gay periodicals; he lives at Austin, Texas.
A50a. – Pagination and size as A50. Special issue of ten handbound and numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in pale
blue boards backed with patterned blue cloth. Pale blue endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed
in dark blue on the frontcover: BAYOU BOY | LARS EIGHNER; and along the spine on a paper label: BAYOU BOY [–] LARS EIGHNER.
$50.00.
A51. MANSEX | and other stories | Max Exander | Illustrations by Richard White | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 160. 1985. Perfect bound in glazed white and caramel card wrappers. Frontcover and spine printed in black on
a white background; backcover printed in white on a caramel background. Frontispiece and five illustrations by Richard White.
Cover design by Timothy Lewis, incorporating a sepia drawing by Richard White. ISBN 0-917342-05-4. $7.95.
“Lovers of serious, raunchy mansex have followed Max Exander's stories in Honcho, Mandate, and Numbers magazines since 1981.
Here in this collection, illustrated by Richard White, are sixteen of Exander's hottest stories. From the gentle romance of
‘Woodcut’ to the stylized fantasy of ‘Painpleasure,’ Max Exander takes us into a world where pain, pleasure, romance, longing,
and confession all blend to stimulate both our minds and our senses.”
Contents: Mansex. – Something to Prove. – Straight to S&M. – The Captive Connection. – Woodcut. – Diary of a Masochist. –
Diary of a Sadist. – We Meat Again. – Club Maverick. – Pulses and Pleasures. – Sir Kruger. – Dear Master, Dear Slave. – Sex
Pit. – Cowpoked. – Breakin' In At The Rodeo. – Painpleasure. Fourteen of these stories previously appeared in the periodicals
Bronc, Honcho, Mandate and Numbers; in the case of the story Mansex, the text as presented in the present collection has been
slightly modified by the author. Woodcut and Diary of a Masochist are original stories, and are published here for the first
time.
‘Max Exander’ is the pseudonym of San Francisco author Paul Reed. Under his own name Gay Sunshine Press published his novel
Facing it. (See entry A46.)
A52. BEHOLD A PALE HORSE | A Novel of Homosexuals | in the Nazi Holocaust | Lannon D. Reed | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 224. 1985. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers, the frontcover printed in yellow, white and black on a design
of yellow flames against a black background over which is superimposed a fuchsia triangle. Fuchsia spine and backcover printed
in black and (on the spine) in black and yellow. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. ISBN 0-91734209-7. $10.00.
“Set in Germany before and during the Nazi era, this powerful novel deals with the Nazis’ attempt to eradicate Jews and Homosexuals
from Europe. From the idyllic, resort city of Baden-Baden and the cosmopolitan life pre-war Berlin to the hell of the Dachau
and Auschwitz concentration camps, the novel traces the life of its main protagonist, the young Van Bertholds–Jew and Homosexual.
His heritage denied him, and his world totally destroyed, Van is forced to live as a Homosexual prisoner. replacing the Star
of David with the hated Pink Triangle…”
About the author: Lannon D. Reed currently lives in Dallas, Texas, where he is employed in the computer field. This is his
first novel. Included in the research for Behold a Pale Horse was a stay in Germany and England.
A52a. – Pagination and size as A52. Special issue of ten handbound and numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in pale
cream boards backed with patterned green cloth. Pale cream endpapers, head-and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed
in dark blue on the frontcover: BEHOLD A PALE HORSE | Lannon D. Reed; and along the spine on a paper label: BEHOLD A PALE
HORSE [–] Lannon D. Reed. $50.00.
A53. NAKED TO THE NIGHT | K. B. Raul | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 176. 1986. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers, the front cover printed in yellow and purple over a color drawing
by Richard White. Purple spine and backcover printed in white. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. ISBN 0-917342-20-8. $7.95.
“Naked To The Night is the graphic story of Rick Talbot, the quintessential hustler, who sells his body across America–from
the meat racks of Time Square to the glittering world of Hollywood. Physically endowed and stunningly handsome, Rick is driven
by a compulsive desire to achieve fame and success.
“There are a host of other characters in the novel: Wolfgang and Salvatore, the macho studs who ‘roll queers’; Tom Shane,
the aging movie star, loving women on the screen but preferring young men in his bed; Otto, the blue-eyed, blonde muscleboy;
and Turk Corbin, who takes a stand against being constantly victimised and comes out of the closet.
“Naked To The Night 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. Gay Sunshine Press is pleased to present this [extensively] revised edition of a
long out-of-print gay classic.”
The first edition of Naked To The Night was published at New York in 1964 by Paperback Library; the edition appeared as both
a pocketbook and a hardback.
A53a. – Pagination and size as A53. Special issue of ten handbound, numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in cream
boards backed with patterned blue and pale green cloth. Cream endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket.
Printed in blue on the frontcover: NAKED TO THE NIGHT | K. B. Raul; and along the spine on a paper label: NAKED TO THE NIGHT
[–] K. B. Raul. $50.00.
A54. CALAMUS | LOVERS | Walt Whitman's | Working-Class Camerados | Edited with Introductions and Commentary by | CHARLEY SHIVELY
| Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 224. 1987. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers, the frontcover printed in pink, lilac and black over a pale
pinktinted photograph of Whitman. Inset at the bottom of the frontcover are two small white bordered monochrome photos of
Harry Stafford and Peter Doyle. Lilac spine and backcover, printed in pink and black on the spine and black on the backcover.
Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Illustrated with fourteen photographs, four drawings or reproductions of engravings and two
facsimiles extracted from Whitman's autograph letters and manuscript notebooks. ISBN 0-91734218-6. $10.00.
Note: Although the copyright notice is dated 1987, Calamus Lovers was actually distributed to retail outlets about mid-December
1986.
“CALAMUS LOVERS: Walt Whitman's Working-Class Camerados examines the poet's relations with common men of the nineteenth century.
Edward Carpenter (an English lover) wrote: ‘The unconscious, uncultured, naturely types pleased him best, and he would make
an effort to approach them. The others he allowed to approach him.’ The surviving and many heretofore unpublished letters
which some of these ‘natural types’ wrote to Whitman place his Calamus poems in context, provide a unique insight into gay
life in those years, and give us a deeper understanding of the poet, The correspondents include Fred Vaughan, Tom Sawyer,
Lewis Brown, Nicholas Palmer, Peter Doyle, Harry Stafford and Bill Duckett. Charley Shively has identified these men as Whitman's
lovers, and for the first time pinpoints Fred Vaughan as the man for whom Whitman wrote the Calamus poems. He provides introductions
and commentaries to the letters as well as a special selection of Whitman's gayest poems, ‘Bathing My Songs in Sex.’ Charley
Shively is himself a gay poet, a University of Massachusetts professor and a member of the Boston Collective which publishes
the gay male journal Fag Rag.”
In slightly different form, earlier versions of Chapters 2 and 9 appeared respectively in Fag Rag Twelfth Anniversary Issue
(1982) and in Nambla Bulletin (May, 1986).
A54a. – Pagination and size as A54. Unnumbered edition of 200 copies bound in magenta cloth, with black and white head-and-tail
bands. Printed in gold on the front cover: Calamus Lovers | [rule] |Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados [rule]; and along
the spine: Shively, Ed. [–] CALAMUS LOVERS [–] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0-917342-17-8. $20.00.
A54b. – Pagination and size as A54. Special issue of ten handbound and numbered copies, signed by the author. Bound in pale
cream boards backed with patterned blue and grey cloth. Pale cream endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust
jacket. Printed in gilt along the spine on a paper label: Shively [–] CALAMUS LOVERS. $50.00.
A55. THE YOUNG SAILOR | AND OTHER POEMS | Luis Cernuda |Translated into English | by | Rick Lipinski | Interior Drawings:
Alex Kouval | Cover Drawing: Richard White | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 128. 1987. Perfect bound in mint-green glazed card wrappers, the frontcover printed in red and black and with
a monochrome drawing by Richard White, the spine printed in red and black and the backcover printed in black alone. Cover
design by Timothy Lewis. Frontispiece, a photograph of Luis Cernuda, and eleven drawings by Alex Kouval. An unsigned Introduction,
with notes, occupies pp. 9-11. ISBN 0-94056701-6. $7.95.
“Imagine yourself as a young man chasing your ideal lover through the forest. Imagine your lips against the black diamond
skin of a young sailor in the south of Spain. Imagine your feelings upon waking up the morning after and finding only the
impression he left behind. Imagine remembering the good times had with a lover like snapshots in a photo album. Imagine what
it would have been like spending everyday time with all those beautiful boys and finally saying goodbye to them. Imagine what
it would be like if gazing at a loved one were sufficient satisfaction. Imagine all this and you glimpse a few of the worlds,
realities, and desires of the Spanish poet, Luis Cernuda.”
A55a. – Pagination and size as A55. Unnumbered edition of 200 copies bound in green cloth, with green and gold head- and tail-bands.
Printed in gold on frontcover: THE YOUNG SAILOR | and other poems | LUIS CERNUDA; and along the spine: Luis Cernuda [–] THE
YOUNG SAILOR [–] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0940567-01-6. $20.00.
A55b. – Pagination and size as A55. Special issue of six handbound and numbered copies, signed by the translator. Bound in
pale cream boards backed with dark blue cloth. Pale cream endpapers, head- and tail-bands and clear acetate dust jacket. Printed
in gilt along the spine on a paper label: Luis Cernuda [–] THE YOUNG SAILOR. $50.00.
A56. CRUISING | the | SOUTH SEAS | stories by | Charles Warren Stoddard | [vignette] | [quotation:] “It may be we shall touch
the happy isles” | Edited by Winston Leyland | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 192. 1987. Perfect bound in glazed dark green wrappers. Frontcover illustrated with an inset monochrome photograph
by Roy Dean/Rho Delta Press, and printed along the top in pink and in white along the bottom. Spine printed in pink and white,
and backcover in white only. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. The frontispiece, titlepage vignette and four illustrations included
in this volume are selected from the twenty-five illustrations by the English artist Wallis Mackay decorating Summer Cruising
in the South Seas, a book of Stoddard's published in London in 1874. A portrait of Stoddard, together with a facsimile of
his handwriting, is reproduced on p. [8]. ISBN 0-940567-02- 4. $7.95.
“This is a reissue of the true autobiographical stories of travels in Hawaii and Tahiti by the late nineteenth-century California
writer Charles Warren Stoddard, a friend of Bret Harte and Walt Whitman. Out of print for more than sixty years, these stories
detail Stoddard's adventures with young Hawaiian and Tahitian men …”
This collection has a two-part Introduction by Roger Austen, the first part of which is reprinted from Essays on Gay Literature
(1985) edited by Stuart Kellogg, and the second being reprinted from issue 42/43 of Gay Sunshine Journal (1980).
The eleven stories included in this anthology are extracted from two books by Stoddard: the second edition of South Sea Idylls,
(New York: Scribners, 1892) and The Island of Tranquil Delights (Boston: Herbert B. Turner, 1904).
Contents: Editor's Note, signed by Winston Leyland. – Biographical Note, unsigned. – Introduction, by Roger Austen. – TALES
OF HAWAII; Chumming with a Savage: KÄna-anÄ. – Joe of Lahaina. – The Drama in Dreamland. – Kane-Aloha. – A Bungalow “Bee”.
– Kahéle. – Kahéle's Foreordination. – A Sawdust Fairy. TALES OF TAHITI; In a Transport. – The Island of Tranquil Delights.
– Pearl Hunting in the Pomotous.
For a biographical note on the editor, see entry A1 of the present section.
A56a. – Pagination and size as A56. Unnumbered edition of 200 copies bound in purple cloth, with purple and gold head- and
tail-bands. Printed in gold on frontcover: Cruising | the South Seas | STORIES BY | CHARLES WARREN STODDARD; and along the
spine: CHARLES WARREN STODDARD [–] CRUISING THE SOUTH SEAS [–] GAY SUNSHINE PRESS. Protected with a dustjacket that is identical
to that of the softcover edition, including the price which was retained by mistake. The correct price is indicated by a printed
adhesive label. ISBN 0940567-02-6. $20.00.
A57. FOR THE PLEASURE | OF HIS COMPANY | An Affair of the Misty City | Charles Warren Stoddard | Gay Sunshine Press | San
Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. 192. 1987. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. The frontcover illustrated with an uncredited painting of Francisco
c. 1900, printed in gold and white across the top and in white within a dark maroon band across the bottom. Dark maroon spine
and backcover, printed in white and gold on the spine and white only on the backcover. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. A portrait
of Stoddard, together with a facsimile of his handwriting, serves as a frontispiece. ISBN 0-940567-05-9. $7.95.
An Introduction by Roger Austen occupies pp. [5]-12.
“This is an autobiographical novel by California writer, Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909). 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 [by A. M. Robertson], this book has long been out of print. Gay Sunshine Press is
pleased to present this re-issue of what may be the first relatively open American novel with homosexual themes”.
A57a. – Pagination and size as A57. Unnumbered edition of 200 copies bound in dark blue cloth, with blue and gold head- and
tail-bands. Printed in gold on frontcover: FOR THE PLEASURE | OF HIS COMPANY | An Affair Of The Misty City | Charles Warren
Stoddard; and along the spine: Charles Warren Stoddard [–] FOR THE PLEASURE | OF HIS COMPANY [–] Gay Sunshine Press. Protected
with a dustjacket that is identical to that of the softcover edition. ISBN 0940567-04-0. $20.00.
A58. Ahmad al-Tifashi | THE DELIGHT OF HEARTS | or | What you will not find | in any book | English version edited by Winston
Leyland | English translation by Edward A. Lacey | from the unabridged French translation of | René R. Khawam, based on the
original |Arabic manuscripts. | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
8½ x 5½. Pp. [ii]+[1]-234+[iv]. Perfect bound in glazed wrappers. Front wrapper divided vertically into two panels, the left
comprising a detail in color of a Persian painting of 16th century Qazvin school, and the right being printed in gold and
white on a dark green background. Mustard spine and backcover, printed in black and dark blue on spine and dark blue on backcover.
Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Frontispiece reproducing in black & white a leaf from a 16th century Turkish album. Page [54]
illustrated with a drawing in black & white ascribed to the 16th century Persian artist Quazvin. ISBN 0-940567-09-1. $10.00.
“The Delight of Hearts… or what you will not find in any book is an anthology of stories, anecdotes, poems from the Arab Middle
Ages. Included are such chapters as ‘Homosexuals and their activities’; ‘Interesting stories concerning young hustlers’; ‘Queens
and their ways’… The stories are remarkably ‘modern’ in their attitudes towards gay sexuality.
“Ahmad al-Tifashi (1184-1253), the compiler of this anthology, was born in Tunisia and educated in Egypt and Damascus. His
interests included law, natural science, astrology, poetry and the social sciences. For this edition the homosexual chapters
of his book have been expertly translated into English by E. A. Lacey from the French version of M. René Khawam (Editions
Phébus), based on the original Arabic manuscripts.”
For biographical notes on the editor and translator, see entries A1 and A21 respectively.
A58a. – Pagination and size as A58. Unnumbered edition of 100 copies bound in mustard cloth, with gold and dark red head-
and tail-bands. Printed in red on frontcover: THE | DELIGHT | OF HEARTS | Ahmad al-Tifashi; and along the spine: Ahmad al-Tifashi
[–] THE DELIGHT OF HEARTS [-] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0940567-08-3. $25.00.
A59. DRUM BEATS | Walt Whitman's | Civil War Boy Lovers | Edited with Introduction and Bibliography by | CHARLEY SHIVELY |
Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. pp. 256. 1989. Perfect bound in pale pink glazed wrappers. Frontcover illustrated in a broad band across its width
with a photograph by Matthew Brady of a young ‘powder monkey’ aboard the Civil War battleship New Hampshire off Charleston.
The panels above and below the photograph are printed in red, pale lilac and black. Spine printed in red and pale lilac. Backcover
printed in black and illustrated with a cameo photograph of Whitman. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Illustrated throughout
with photographs, drawings and facsimiles. Published with the financial assistance of the California Arts Council. ISBN 0-940567-07-5.
$10.95.
Note: The ISBN numbers in both the paperback and cloth editions of Drum Beats are misprinted, but appear correctly in this
bibliography.
“Drum Beats offers and exciting addition of letters to Walt Whitman from fifty soldiers and lovers. Charley Shively's introduction
contains a startling re-vision of the war and of Whitman's poetry. Published from original manuscripts, the letters provide
eloquent testimony of the common soldier's love for Whitman; they express affection, valor and compassion in the face of death.
Shively has also found remarkable new material on Abraham Lincoln's gay love life and on the homosexual underworld of John
Wilkes Booth. Editor Charley Shively is himself a gay poet and University of Massachusetts professor.”
A59a. – Pagination and size as A59. Unnumbered edition of 100 copies bound in purple cloth, with white head- and tail-bands.
Printed in gold on frontcover: DRUM | BEATS | Walt Whitman's | Civil War Boy Lovers; and along the spine: Charley Shively,
(ed.) [–] DRUM BEATS [-] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0940567-06-7. $25.00.
A60. CRYSTAL BOYS | a novel by | PAI HSIEN-YUNG | translated from the Chinese | by Howard Goldblatt | Gay Sunshine Press |
San Francisco
8½ x 5½. pp. [ii]+[1]-330+[iv]. 1990. Perfect bound in dark blue glazed card wrappers. Frontcover illustrated with a pastel
drawing by the Singapore artist Peng Tan. In a narrow panel of dark blue above the drawing is the novel's title in pink, with
‘A Novel | by | Pai | Hsien-yung’ printed in white over the pastel. Spine printed and white and pink, and backcover in white
only. Cover design by Timothy Lewis. Published with the financial assistance of the California Arts Council. ISBN 0-940567-11-3.
$11.95.
“Crystal Boys is the first Chinese novel on gay themes. A-qing, the adolescent hero, comes from an impoverished family. His
father casts him out after learning that his son is gay. A-qing drifts into New Park, a gay hangout in Taipei, and begins
his life as a hustler. He meets other boys living on the street, also forsaken by their families: Little Jade, who is constantly
searching for his unknown father; Mousey, an orphan and petty thief; and Wu Min, a shy and tender kid, who attempts suicide
when discarded by a middle-aged man. These four become fast friends and are taken under the protection of Chief Yang, a fiftyish
gay guru in the park. The boys begin to build a family of their own. Meanwhile, A-qing meets Dragon Prince, whose passionate
and fateful love for Phoenix Boy has become a legend of the Park…
“The second part of the novel deals with the Cozy Nest, a gay bar run by Chief Yang, where the boys and other homosexual exiles
have found a refuge. The bar is sponsored by Papa Fu, whose young soldier son had shot himself when his homosexuality was
exposed.
“In Taiwan, the gay community is known as the buoliquan, literally ‘glass community,’ while the individuals are called ‘glass
boys’ or ‘crystal boys.’
“Crystal Boys was first published in Taiwan and has since appeared in Hong Kong and in mainland China: two editions (Beijing
and Harbin) were published in 1987. A film, Outcasts, based on the novel and directed by Yu Kan-Ping (1986) is currently available
in the United States on video cassette (subtitled).
“Author Pai Hsien-yung was born in China in 1937. He studied at National Taiwan University, came to the U.S. in 1961, and
currently teaches Chinese language and literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is
Wandering in the Garden Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters (Indiana University Press).
“Translator Howard Goldblatt teaches Chinese literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he edits the scholarly
journal Modern Chinese Literature.”
A60a. – Pagination and size as A60. Unnumbered edition of 100 copies bound in dark green cloth, with green and gold head-
and tail-bands. Printed in gold on frontcover: CRYSTAL BOYS | A Novel |by | Pai | Hsien-yung; and along the spine: Pai Hsien-yung
[–] CRYSTAL BOYS [-] Gay Sunshine Press. ISBN 0940567-10-5. $25.00.
A60b. – Size and pagination as A60. A special issue of ten numbered copies, each signed by the author. Bound in maroon boards,
backed with blue and gray patterned cloth and protected with a clear acetate dust jacket. Maroon endpapers. Printed in gilt
on the front cover: CRYSTAL BOYS | PAI HSIEN-YUNG; and along the spine on a maroon paper label: PAI HSIEN-YUNG [–] CRYSTAL
BOYS. $75.00.
A60c. – Size and pagination as A60. Paperback edition, reprinted in 1995. Wrappers redesigned by Rupert Kinnard, and illustrated
with a colour photograph of a young Chinese man by Franco/Ram Studios, San Francisco. Price increased to $14.95.
A61. GAY ROOTS | TWENTY YEARS OF GAY SUNSHINE | An Anthology of Gay History, | Sex, Politics, and Culture | EDITED BY WINSTON
LEYLAND | GAY SUNSHINE PRESS | San Francisco
10 x 7. pp. 704. 1991. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers. Front and back covers illustrated with paintings by Kent Neffendorf.
Frontcover has ‘GAY ROOTS in pink caps across the top, with a white panel below and to the right containing: ‘[in pink:] TWENTY
YEARS | OF GAY SUNSHINE | [in black:] An Anthology of | Gay History, Sex, | Politics & Culture | Edited by | Winston Leyland
| [inverted pink triangle]. Title, &c., printed in caps & l.c across the spine: ‘[in pink:] GAY | ROOTS | TWENTY | YEARS |
OF GAY | SUNSHINE | [in dark blue:] An | Anthology of | Gay History, | Sex, Politics | & culture | Edited by | Winston | Leyland
| GAY SUNSHINE | PRESS | SAN FRANCISCO. The backcover has a summary of the book's contents printed in white within a dark
blue panel edged with a single white line frame. The price is printed at the lower right hand corner of the back cover. Cover
layout and book design by Rupert Kinnard. Published with the financial assistance of the California Arts Council. ISBN 0-940567-13-X.
$22.95.
‘An anthology encyclopedic in scale, Gay Roots collects the best writings from the turbulent early 1970’s–the very beginning
of modern gay liberation–right up to the present day. Work from Gay Sunshine Journal–the groundbreaking tabloid–that served
as a forum and catalyst for the revolution underway–appears together with some of the most catalytic gay writing published
by Gay Sunshine Press, the oldest continuing gay book publisher in the United States. Tennessee Williams wrote in 1977 of
Gay Sunshine: “The only completely literate and serious Gay Journal with which I’m acquainted.”
‘Five books in one, with sections on “Gay History,” “Gay Sex and Politics,” “Gay Biography and Literary Essays,” “Gay Fiction,”
and “Gay Poetry,” Gay Roots is intended for every gay person desiring to reclaim a rich cultural tradition. Among the pieces
included: “Tinseled Bucks: American Indian Homosexuality,” “Russia’s Gay History and Culture,” “Mexican Gaylife in Historical
Perspective,” “Homosexuality in the Anti-Nazi Underground,” “Arab Civilization and Male Love,” “Genderfuck and its Delights,”
“A Faggot Father Speaks Out,” “The Gay Mishima,” “The Cinema of Camp”–an in-depth study of homosexuality in film. Tennessee
Williams on sexual identity in his plays, John Rechy’s “The New Censorship and Repression,” Jean Genet and Gore Vidal on their
own homosexuality, work by Boyd McDonald, Geoff Mains, Ned Rorem, W. H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg… over 100 writers and artists
in all.’
A61a. – Pagination and size as A61. Unnumbered edition of 300 copies bound in purple cloth, with green and gold head- and
tail-bands. Printed in gold on frontcover: ‘GAY ROOTS | TWENTY YEARS | OF GAY SUNSHINE | Edited by | Winston Leyland’; and
across the spine: ‘GAY | ROOTS | TWENTY | YEARS | OF GAY | SUNSHINE | GAY SUNSHINE | PRESS | SAN FRANCISCO’. Dust jacket identical
to that of trade paperback edition. ISBN 0-940567-12-1. $40.00.
A61b. – Pagination and size as A61. Special edition of 26 lettered copies, signed by the editor, hand bound in three-quarter
lilac silk, gilt, with laid cream board side panels, scarlet silk head- and tail-bands and purple Japanese paper endpapers.
In gold across the spine: ‘GAY | ROOTS | TWENTY | YEARS | OF GAY | SUNSHINE | Edited by | Winston | Leyland’. $200.00.
A62. GAY ROOTS | An Anthology of Gay History, | Sex, Politics and Culture | VOLUME 2 | EDITED BY WINSTON LEYLAND | GAY SUNSHINE
PRESS | San Francisco
10 x 7. pp. 320. 1993. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers. Front and back covers illustrated with black and white photographs
by Steve Jensen. Front cover printed in yellow and white. Black spine, printed in yellow and white. Back cover carries publisher’s
promotional material, printed in white, contained within two black panels, side-by-side. The price is printed in white in
the lower left hand corner of the back cover. Cover layout by Rupert Kinnard. ISBN 0-940567-15-6. $19.95.
‘Over 300 pages of the best gay writing. Includes “Was the ‘Father of our Country’ a Queen?” – on the homosexuality of General
George Washington. Also “The Historical Roots of Homophobia,” “Sex in the Mexican Baths,” “The Passions of Michelangelo,”
complete boylove novella Costa Brava, and much more…
‘Gay Roots Vol. 1 won the 1992 Lambda Book Award for the best book published by a gay press in the preceding year.
Critics on Gay Roots Volume 1:
'“Winston Leyland is one of the seminal figures in the history of gay publishing… Now he has given us Gay Roots, a huge compendium
of gay scholarship and literature.” – The Sentinel.
'“This radiant volume reveals the roots of gay culture, its omnipresence, continuity and its ongoing ability to shake us up.”
– Bay Area Reporter.’
A62a. – Pagination and size as A62. ISBN 0-940567-14-8
A62b. – Pagination and size as A62. Special edition of 26 lettered copies, signed by the editor ISBN 0-940567-16-4.
A63. [Title and subtitle within a single-line oblong frame:] PARTINGS AT DAWN | An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature |
Edited by Stephen D. Miller | Introduction by Paul Gordon Schalow | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. pp. 352. 1996. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers. Front and back covers illustrated with coloured paintings by
Sadao Hasegawa. Front cover printed in yellow and white against a black background. Back cover printed in white against a
black background. Black spine, printed in yellow and white. Frontispiece, comprising a b&w reproduction of a frame from an
18th century handpainted scroll by Miyagawa Chōshun. Interior illustrations reproduced from Japanese woodblock books. Published
with assistance from the California Arts Council, a State agency. ISBN 0-940567-18-0. $19.95.
“Partings at Dawn is a brilliant collection of literature on gay themes covering eight hundred years of Japanese culture—from
1200 to the last decade of the 20th century. It includes medieval stories such as ‘The Tale of Genmu’ and ‘The Story of Kannon’s
Manifestation as a Youth’—how Buddhist Bodhisattva gives his blessings to a gay relationship. The renowned 17th century writer
Ihara Saikaku is well represented with his stories of samurai and actors and their boyloves. The amazing 17th century collection
Wild Azaleas (the world’s premier gay anthology of stories and poems) is presented here for the first time within the pages
of a book. There is an in-depth section on 20th century writers, including Mishima Yukio’s story ‘Onnagata,’ and the erotic
stories/poems of Takahashi Mutsuo. His massive poem on gay sex, ‘Ode,’ is considered by publisher Winston Leyland as ‘the
single great gay poem of the 20th century.’ Masterfully rendered into English by twelve translators—all scholars of Japanese
Literature—this pioneering anthology deserves a wide readership.”
A63a. – Pagination and size as A62. ‘Limited’ hardback issue, bound in dark charcoal cloth, blocked in gilt on spine and with
head- and tail-bands and plain white endpapers. Dustjacket reproduces the wrappers of the softbound issue, minus the bar code,
with plain black inside flaps. Limitation and price not given. ISBN 0-940567-17-2.
A63b. – On p. [352] of both the paper and cloth issues are references to “a edition of 26 lettered copies, hardbound in boards.”
This has not been seen, and may not have been printed.
A64. [Title and subtitles within a single-line oblong frame:] OUT OF THE BLUE | Russia’s Hidden Gay Literature | An Anthology
| Edited by Kevin Moss | Introduction by Simon Karlinsky | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. pp. 416. 1997. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers. Front cover illustrated with a colour photograph by Vitaly Lazarenko.
Back cover illustrated with b&w photo by Alexai Sedov. Front cover printed in pale blue caps shadowed in yellow, and in yellow
and white against a blue background. Back wrapper printed in white on a blue background. Spine printed in white on blue background.
Frontispiece (b&w photo by Vitaly Lazarenko), and interior b&w photographs and drawings by Lazarenko, Alexai Sedov, Victoria
Urman-Kuslik, Victor Putintsev and others, together with unsigned photographs of several of the authors represented in this
anthology. ISBN 0-940567-20-2. $19.95
“Here for the first time in any language is an in-depth collection of Russian gay literature—from the classics of the 19th
century Golden Age to the erotica of the ‘New Russia.’ Thirty authors in over 400 pages of brilliant writing make this pioneering
anthology a publishing event. ‘Blue’ (goluboy) is the Russian slang term for gay.”
A64a. – Pagination and size as A64. ‘Limited’ hardback issue, bound in dark charcoal cloth, blocked in gilt on spine, and
with head- and tail-bands and gilt-flecked black endpapers. Dustjacket reproduces the wrappers of the softbound issue, minus
the bar code, with plain white inside flaps. Limitation and price not given, but [$50]. ISBN 0-940567-19-9
A64b. – On p. [416] of both the paper and cloth issues are references to “a edition of 26 lettered copies, hardbound in boards.”
This has not been seen, and may not have been printed.
A65. QUEER DHARMA | Voices of Gay Buddhists | Volume 1 | Edited by Winston Leyland | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. pp. 416. 1998. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers. Front cover illustrated with a detail of a colour collage by
Stevee Postman comprising a Buddha of the Gandhara period (4th – 5th century C.E.). Back cover illustrated with colour photo
of a gay version of the traditional Tibetan yab yum: “the union of absolute bliss and emptiness. Absolute wisdom is symbolized
in a position of sexual union.” Front cover printed in gold, white and white on blue background. Back wrapper printed in dark
blue and white. Spine printed in white and gold on blue background. Frontispiece (comprising a b&w photograph of stucco Buddha
head), with b&w photos of selected authors and Buddhist art and statuary interspersed throughout the text. ISBN 0-940567-22-9.
$19.95. “Thought-provoking and satisfying...the book provides convincing evidence that the Buddhist sangha, or community,
has put down solid roots in the U.S., and that gay people are among its most committed and passionate members.” —Harvard Gay
and Lesbian Review
"Groundbreaking and intensely moving book..." —Issanji
“Buddhism can help Gay men--not by giving a definition, but by teaching us a new way to being aware of ourselves and the world
. . . Queer Dharma is a rich resource for gay men who are searching for ways to integrate their spiritual and emotional/sexual
lives.” —Gay Buddhist Fellowship Newsletter
“Queer Dharma is a phenomenon — the first anthology ever that mixes the gritty experience of being gay in America with the
nuances and flavors of Buddhism. It's an exciting book simply because it presents perspectives that are completely new. Our
favorite themes of love and sex are at center stage, but so too are the Buddhist notions of suffering and the release from
suffering. What gay man over 23 doesn't see the connection?” —Larry White, Bay Area Reporter
“Over 35 gay men have contributed to this anthology of fiction, poetry, art, scholarship, and personal testimony about what
it means to be a gay Buddhist practitioner.” —Tricycle
“In the article ‘Practicing Together as a Gay Couple’ I met Michael C. Hyman, a gay Zen Buddhist and father, who somehow makes
domesticity seem profoundly heroic." —Turning Wheel, Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
"Queer Dharma is truly a banquet of tastes touching on many common experiences we have as gay men. To read it leads you to
experience parts of your own life again with a fresh perspective. It is a wonderful contribution to ending the sense of separation
we feel when we are alone on a spiritual path. This book should be on every gay man's bookshelf and be part of the path to
Buddha which is your own true larger self." —Alan Oliver, White Crane (Journal of Gay Men's Spirituality)
A65a. – Pagination and size as A64. ‘Limited’ hardback issue, bound in red-brown cloth, blocked in gilt on spine, and with
head- and tail-bands and patterned, dark pink-brown endpapers. Dustjacket reproduces the wrappers of the softbound issue,
minus the bar codes, with plain white inside flaps. Limitation and price not given, but [$50]. ISBN 0940567-21-0.
A65b. – Pagination and size as A64. Reissue of the paperback edition in 2000.
A66. QUEER DHARMA | Voices of Gay Buddhists | Volume 2 | Edited by Winston Leyland | Gay Sunshine Press | San Francisco
9 x 6. pp. 224. 2000. Perfect bound in glazed card wrappers. Front cover illustrated with colour collage of a naked man partly
concealed behind an orchid or similar bloom, the whole superimposed over water. Front cover printed in pale lavender, black-on-gold,
white and gold. Plain pale lavender spine and back cover, printed in dark blue and white-on-dark blue. Frontispiece (comprising
a b&w photograph of a meditating Buddha in stone), with b&w photos of selected authors and Buddhist statuary interspersed
throughout the text. ISBN 0-940567-23-9. $16.95.
“In this second volume gay men write in depth about how they have integrated their sexuality and spirituality via Buddhist
practice. This book is focused on Buddhist practice and gay male sexuality/relationships in ten long personal accounts. Also
included is an historical article and a sampling of fiction.”
A66a. – Pagination and size as A64. ‘Limited’ hardback issue, bound in red-brown cloth, blocked in gilt on spine, and with
head- and tail-bands and patterned, dark pink-brown endpapers. Dustjacket reproduces the wrappers of the softbound issue,
minus the bar-codes, with plain white inside flaps. Limitation and price not given, but [$50]. ISBN 0-940567-24-5
