num_pages: 384
description: Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring, mostly between the covers of the cheaply produced pulp paperbacks of the post-World War II era. Cultural critic Michael Bronski collects a sampling of these now little-known gay erotic writings—some by writers long forgotten, some never known and a few now famous. Through them, Bronski challenges many long-held views of American postwar fiction and the rise of gay literature, as well as of the culture at large. 
language: English
title: Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
titlecomplete: Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
genres: Pulp, History, Queer, Books About Books, LGBT, Erotica, Gay, Anthologies, Queer Studies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 149
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Anthology Fiction
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin