Title: Pulp Friction
First published: January 14, 2003
Description: A collection of gay erotic writings tracing the development of a gay identity from the late 19th century to just before the Stonewall Inn riots

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.
Subjects: English Erotic stories, Gay men, Pulp literature, American Erotic stories, Fiction, Stories, plots, Gay erotic literature, History and criticism, Gay fiction, Sexuality, Gay men's writings, American, Gay men, fiction, Erotic stories, American Gay erotic stories, LGBTQ classic pulp, LGBTQ short stories, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner