The most beautiful Dorian Gray?

Italian opera performance of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Sinful Dorian Gray (was a woman!)

Bad adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray starring a woman.

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Pictures of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray was made into a movie more than once.

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Gay Apprentices (secrets of the Gay Agenda)

Before we recruit young straight men into the homosexual lifestyle we require them to become gay apprentices and learn how to be a queer.

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Ten inches (to toke?)

Gay paperback: 10-inch Toker combines references to both smoking pot and oral sex.

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Coming Out II

Gay males who have had fantasies of being overpowered by young straight men, frat boys, jocks.

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Dick and Peter

Dick and Peter - was the title of an old gay erotic novel.

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Joint Hunger?

Does the cover of joint hunger refer to pot, steroids or an appendage below the waist?

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Stud House

Stud House is a popular phrase in the world of queer popular culture.

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Making the Jock

Making the Jock by Chad Stuart

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The Happy Hustlers

Grant Tracy Saxon published a memoir of life as a callboy and a guide to bisexuality and another man wrote a novel called The Happy Hustler.

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He loved dick (don't we all)

Gay novel about someone who loves Dick or Richard or well you decide . . .

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The Gay Jungle

Sadly early gay paperbacks didn't have painted covers comparable to mass market books.

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Queens Town Court

Old gay paperback novel showing two young men kissing.

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Bad Boys in the Band

Adult gay romance based on Boys in the Bad

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Meat Packaging

Old gay paperbacks that hide male genitalia or opt for very discreet hiding of them.

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Queen's Quarterly

Early 1970s gay magazine for queer men without hangups: Queen's Quarterly.

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Lynne Cheney writes of lesbian love

Cover of Lynne Cheney's novel about gay women in frontier America. What did Mary think?

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Transgendered paperback covers

Old gay novels that purport to show transvestites, transsexuals and other ambiguously gendered persons.

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The boys of hardon beach

In a gay novel of 1972 gay young men pranced across hard-on beach in this Spade Classsic.

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When the roll is called in Sodom, I'll be there

Unusual gay paperback in that it features both gay men and women but not together in some faux-bisexual agenda.

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Oriental Guys

Images of Asian gay men.

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Queer lad among his toys

Early In Touch magazine cover of a young gay man sitting among some toys.

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The Manager

Was The Manger a cheap novel about using homosexuality to push a political offical out of office?

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Singular explanation of queer sexuality

Meredith's Gorman's novel says that men become gay because they need other men to feed their vanity

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Cockalorum

Paperback cover of a youth clad in a dollar sign. What if Richie Rich had been gay?

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Strange Marriage

Joseph Hansen under the pseudonym James Colton wrote a novel of two gay men and woman entitled Strange Marriage.

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Les Pervertis

Decadent young gay man on the cover of Ferri-Pisani's Les Pervertis.

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Two gay men on the moon

Old photograph of two men arm-in-arm sitting on old Mr. Moon.

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Stranger at the Door

Victor Banis gave me a copy he wrote under the name Don Holliday, Stranger at the Door.

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Somewhere, somewhen two gay men embraced

In America's past at least two gay men felt it was safe to kiss and embrace in public.

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Queer goodness: two boys kissing

Two blond gay youths embraced in a lovely kiss.

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My Brother's Image

Gay historical romance set in 18th century Holland, gay men persecuted by Roman Catholic Cardinal.

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Boys Behind Bars

Gay paperback cover: Boys Behind Bars.

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The Flaming Suckers

The Flaming Suckers - was that just an odd way of saying gay men?

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Whee! That Man from C.A.M.P.!

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. inspired men from O.R.G.Y. and S.T.U.D. and in turn spawned Dingo Stark the man from C.A.M.P. written by Victor Banis.

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Donnie Does Dallas

Gay novel about a young gay man in Dallas, cheap thrills at best.

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Homos Don't Cry

Homosexuals don't cry is an old trashy gay paperback novel.

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The Self Lover

Gay paperback novel with the unedifying title The Self Lover.

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The Story of Q

Gay novel about queer sadomasochism and power exchange sexuality from the 1970s.

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Astounding Transvestite Tales

Scans of the covers of three issues of an early transgendered zine, Astounding Transvestite Tales.

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Clothesdick

Clothing magazine aimed at gay men?

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Mansion of Men

Old gay paperback novel whose cover talks about the insights that can be hard from discovering that you are queer.

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Alex Cohen (gay artist?)

Hoping I can learn something about Alex Cohen a possibly gay artist of whose work I've seen only one image of a blond boy.

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Coming out

What is it like for a gay man to come out of the closet. What books do they read for insight into being a queer male?

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Gay Vampire

Was the gay vampire really an agent of the dreaded gay agenda?

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Anybody order a cowboy (extra abs, hold the shirt)

Early gay paperback with a shirtless cowboy or farm boy on the cover.

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Jean Paul (not the pope nor Sartre)

French gay magazine featuring a young man named Jean Paul.

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Mysterious Frenchman

Was was Ferri Pisani?

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Gay Paris 1925

Book about gay men in Paris in 1925

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L'homme de cuir

Photo cover of a French paperback of a leather glad gay youth.

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Her strange struggle

Vintage Kozy Korner book featuring two gay women.

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Male Brides

Trashy old paperback about a male bride, gay marriage of a sorts?

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Donnie and Clyde

Vintage queer paperback retelling Bonnie and Clyde and Donnie and Clyde

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Michelangelo's David

Michelangelo's David on display at Galleria dell' Accademia in Florence after the controversial cleaning, refurbishment

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Mr. Ballerina

Trashy old paperback novel about gay men in ballet, male dancers

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The boy and the mask

Is that a young gay man or woman on the cover of an old issue of The Ladder?

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Toxic Boy

Toxic boy's lovely male photography

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Guy with nice 1970s haircut

Attractive drawing of a man with 70s style haircut. Is Kent a fashion artist?

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The Powerful Story of a Man's Conflicting Loves

Covers to Charles Jackson's novel about a married gay or bisexual man who committs suicide

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Gay But Not Happy

Early gay book publishing: paperback states that Mr. Rodney Man Love is gay but isn't happy about it

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Gay Liberation Front

From the gay liberation movement to gay Republicans

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Gay cowboys & indians

Toby was a homoerotic illustrator and even did a couple of gay comic books

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Woman From Another Planet

Frank Belknap Long's Woman From Another Planet

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Jackie Curtis

Andy Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis who was in many of the Paul Morrissey movies starring Joe Dallesandro

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Whipping a Hang-Up

1970s gay paperback from Trojan Classics

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Larry Townsend's Leather Ad

Scan of an early publication devoted to gay personal ads for men devoted to leather

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Sophomore Meat: A Jock Book

Old queer paperback cover with two gay athletes on the cover

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Homosexual Marriage in 1953

Gay marriage was the theme of an issue of homophile movement One Magazine in 1953.

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Stereotypical images of gay males

Trying to find cartoons, drawings, paintings that show gay men as stereotypes, sissies, nelly males, earlier queer popular culture

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Henry Scott Tuke & Thomas Eakins

Two homoerotic artists who celebrate the image of male youth

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Asian gay male art

Images of gay men by Asian artists

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Sometimes girls kiss each other

Early image of two women kissing

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Blondes in white shoes

Handsome youths in white shoes

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Young man abed

A lovely image by a gay artist named Jeff Davies about whom I've managed to learn nothing.

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An embrace

One man with his arms around another

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