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Pulps like this served to both titillate readers and to suggest romantic possibilities for gay men in semi-private places like parks. This association of male homosexuality with public spaces was part of the "lavender scare."

"Fear Drove Him Into the Third-Sex Shadow World!"

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."

"No one could admire him more than himself."

Unlike "From Passion to Disaster," the cover art of "The Killer Queens" does not assume that gay men make weak or careless soldiers.