Queer Pulp
Although the title of this book is Queer Pulp, it actually has nothing to do with pulp magazines. It is about the various paperbacks made of cheap paper and issued around the fifties and sixties. It also uses a somewhat different definition of queer, not limiting the world to gays, lesbians, etc, but defining queer as basically anything sexual other than the standard heterosexual missionary position. The book notes that that was the basic definition in the time period of the paperbacks. The book is filled with color reproductions of paperback covers, and notes with almost all photos. It covers gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender paperbacks and also discusses some “factual” paperbacks that were turned out. It's a very, very interesting book. |
