Category: Gay Pulp

  • Notes on So Sweet, So Soft, So Queer (1965)
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    Notes on So Sweet, So Soft, So Queer (1965)

    With a title that would surely have done numbers on Booktok as a boring 2020s gay romance novel, Victor’s 1965 novel So Sweet, So Soft, So Queer was light years ahead of its time in more ways than one. As far as I can tell, based on its number (PE-344), it was officially Victor’s first…

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    Notes on AC-DC Lover (1965)

    AC-DC Lover, AC-DC Lover, oh where to begin… This novel is not exactly for the faint of heart in 2025, but you can’t very well get into the subject of Victor’s early catalog without it. First of all, to place it in time: AC-DC Lover was released in 1965 by Private Edition Books, one year…

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  • AC-DC Lover 1965
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    AC-DC Lover 1965

    AC-DC Lover, Victor Jay, Private Edition Books #PE 346, (1965); (Love’s Pawn, Borgo Press 2012). This is one of Victor’s earliest books and probably my least favorite so far. It is a good example of the pulp books being published before The Why Not; before Earl Kemp and Greenleaf Classics. It’s a really dark story…

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  • The Affairs of Gloria 1965
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    The Affairs of Gloria 1965

    Okay, so, I’ve already deviated from the original plan. AC/DC Lover is the first if I were to truly go in alphabetical order – but I think it’s appropriate to start with the first book he published (it still starts with an “A”). The Affairs of Gloria published in 1964 by Brandon House, using the…

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