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How can I take this book seriously? After spending so much of my academic career in ferreting out gay texts of the past, looking for coded references to homosexuality in books that have long been forgotten, why am I even looking at a yellowing and brittle paperback from the 1960s calledIdylls of the...

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Published in1960s Gay Pulp Fiction p. 29
Main Author James J. Gifford
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Massachusetts Press 23.12.2013
Subjects
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Gays and lesbians
Gender studies
Heroes
Homosexuality
Human populations
Human societies
LGBT
Literary characters
Literary elements
Literary genres
Literature
Male homosexuality
Marriage
Men
Pastoral poetry
Persons
Poetic movements
Poetry
Population studies
Protagonists
Queer culture
Queer studies
Queer theology
Religion
Same sex marriage
Sexual orientation
Social institutions
Social sciences
Sociology
Theology
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Summary:How can I take this book seriously? After spending so much of my academic career in ferreting out gay texts of the past, looking for coded references to homosexuality in books that have long been forgotten, why am I even looking at a yellowing and brittle paperback from the 1960s calledIdylls of the Queens? Such texts are disposable, I thought, the remnant of an era that trashed gay sensibilities by reducing them to the salacious writing that you’d find on a 42nd Street newsstand kiosk. And even if one did hide copies of the Marquis de Sade andThe
ISBN:1625340443
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