The Gay Haunt

New York: The Olympia Press, 1970.
First Edition. Signed by Author

18cm x 11cm. 185 pages. Pictorial wrappers.

Gay pulp fiction by Victor J. Banis under his Victor Jay pseudonym, one of several he employed for his prolific output of gay paperback fiction in the 1960s and 70s. Banis was a pioneering figure in gay genre fiction, among the first American writers to place openly gay protagonists at the centre of mass-market paperbacks, not as villains, victims, or cautionary figures, but as sympathetic leads in adventure, mystery, and comedy. Part of Maurice Girodias’ The Olympia Press Traveller’s Companion Series, TC-484. “Can a handsome young gay stud go straight and marry the boss’s daughter? Sure, if the amorous ghost of his late boyfriend doesn’t materialize naked in his car, at his parties, and in his bed.” This copy signed by Banis to the title page.

Very minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition.

AU$400.00

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