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An early gay pulp, Finistere exhibits a the sort of faux moralizing that allowed gay and lesbian pulp to avoid obsecnity laws in the 1950s and early '60s.

Theologian Mark D. Jordan writes in "Blessing Same-Sex Unions" that "Hot Pants Homo" contains themes of "peristent desire to discover the truth of love." He argues that the conventions of "twilight" romance portray a love that is all the more intense…

In "Queer Pulp," Susan Stryker finds a shift in the tone of gay pulps, from a focus on social realism to "sexual wish-fuflillment" with the lessening of obsecnity laws in the mid 1960s.

"The heard and answered the compelling call of...a different drum."

"Next time you send a man out to kill me- have the guts to come yourself!"

Gay Treason imagines a gay man giving U.S. secrets to the Nazis durint WWII. Like Go Down, Aaron, this novel-cover links sexual and political "perversions."

"Mike was the Cop Who Mopped Up...Gay Vista."

I'm not sure if this outlandish cover bares any passing resemblance to the plot within.