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The Iconic cover illustrated by Doug Weaver.

"Tina threw her body around like a wild baseball."

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.