30 min
Episode Four: Gay Pulp More Information Than You Perhaps Require
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- History
This week Ska chats about the rise and fall of 20th century gay pulp fiction. Highlights include: the strange and curious twilight world of postwar publishing; dubious butches; E.M. Forster; Ed Wood, Jr.; gay detectives; gay housemasters; gay cowboys; gay whores; gay girls; gay psychos; gay brothers; gay awakenings; Fire Island.
Reading recs:
- 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage, ed. Drewey Wayne Gunn & Jaime Harker
- Pulp Friction: Uncovering The Golden Age Of Gay Male Pulps, Michael Bronski
- Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback, Susan Stryker
- Strange Sisters. The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969, Jaye Zimet
For an extremely in-depth (and yet still not exhaustive) list of queer pulps and books determined to be of queer interests check out [the annotated index of books in the University of Toronto’s queer pulp collection drafted to accompany Ian Young’s Out In Paperback (https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/content/gay-pulp-fiction)
Recs online:
- “Gay Pulp” podcast
(https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/gaypulp)
- Arkhamlibrarian @ Twitter for all kinds of great pulp collecting sleaze (https://twitter.com/arkhamlibrarian)
- PulpCovers (https://pulpcovers.com/tag/gay/) (many more under a keyword search for “gay” or “lesbian”, though some of the covers featured under the former keyword are gay-as-in-festive)
Cocktails Imbibed:
The Anita Bryant
1.5 oz. vodka (I used the cheapest I own)
Apple juice (I used Martinelli’s)
Measure vodka into highball glass; add apple juice to top and stir.
Commission your own two-cocktail quarantine lecture and stipend my ridiculous interlibrary loans today at Ko-fi.com/skazka! This show is now on the Apple Podcasts store (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-information-than-you-perhaps-require/id1551682980) for those of you who can’t get enough of my vocal fry.
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Music: Bummin on Tremelo by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3464-bummin-on-tremelo
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
This week Ska chats about the rise and fall of 20th century gay pulp fiction. Highlights include: the strange and curious twilight world of postwar publishing; dubious butches; E.M. Forster; Ed Wood, Jr.; gay detectives; gay housemasters; gay cowboys; gay whores; gay girls; gay psychos; gay brothers; gay awakenings; Fire Island.
Reading recs:
- 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage, ed. Drewey Wayne Gunn & Jaime Harker
- Pulp Friction: Uncovering The Golden Age Of Gay Male Pulps, Michael Bronski
- Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback, Susan Stryker
- Strange Sisters. The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969, Jaye Zimet
For an extremely in-depth (and yet still not exhaustive) list of queer pulps and books determined to be of queer interests check out [the annotated index of books in the University of Toronto’s queer pulp collection drafted to accompany Ian Young’s Out In Paperback (https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/content/gay-pulp-fiction)
Recs online:
- “Gay Pulp” podcast
(https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/gaypulp)
- Arkhamlibrarian @ Twitter for all kinds of great pulp collecting sleaze (https://twitter.com/arkhamlibrarian)
- PulpCovers (https://pulpcovers.com/tag/gay/) (many more under a keyword search for “gay” or “lesbian”, though some of the covers featured under the former keyword are gay-as-in-festive)
Cocktails Imbibed:
The Anita Bryant
1.5 oz. vodka (I used the cheapest I own)
Apple juice (I used Martinelli’s)
Measure vodka into highball glass; add apple juice to top and stir.
Commission your own two-cocktail quarantine lecture and stipend my ridiculous interlibrary loans today at Ko-fi.com/skazka! This show is now on the Apple Podcasts store (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-information-than-you-perhaps-require/id1551682980) for those of you who can’t get enough of my vocal fry.
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Music: Bummin on Tremelo by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3464-bummin-on-tremelo
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
30 min