OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Fri Jul 25 14:06:08 PDT 2003


--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> Ha. I had no idea the NYer was such a hotbed. Then
> again, I learned
> on some gay cruising website the other week that the
> steamroom at my
> gym is also a hotbed. Sometimes I feel so
> sheltered...

The publisher and editor died a while ago, but, there a good dozen or so compilations entitled, "Straight to Hell, " and other such with zillions of accts. of gay "public" sex. http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/emu.htm
>..Was it only last century that the very reverend gay
icon, Boyd McDonald, published a series of magazines and books about the true life experiences of gay men? With such wonderfully inflammatory titles as The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts, Straight To Hell, Meat, Flesh, Cum… they raged against the Festival of Light and other right wing, anti-sex bogies horrifying the timid, even amongst his gay readership, with their bold honest stories of sex between males. www.glbtq.com/literature/erotica_pornography,8.html
>...Less well-controlled than the fiction in the slick
gay magazines and the anthologies are the sometimes even more exciting although often crudely written reminiscences of S.T.H. (Straight to Hell), periodically collected in book form by Boyd McDonald (1925-1993).
>...



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