Checklist: A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
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Checklist: A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
Fiction -- Bibliography; Paraphilias in literature -- Bibliography
JOHNSON, KAY. _My Name is Rusty._ Castle Books, 1958. Allegedly a
novel of a woman’s prison, complete with glossary of “prison
slang”—but if the author has ever been inside a woman’s prison,
or even done any authentic research, your editors will eat a copy
of the book, complete with cover jackets. Brief plot; butchy Rusty
makes a pass at prison newcomer Marcia, in order to share her
commissary credits. When Rusty gets out of prison she marries and
goes straight and Marcia kills herself. Read it and weep.
JONES, JAMES. _From Here to Eternity._ Scribners 1951, pbr Signet
ca. 1952, (m).
KASTLE, HERBERT D. _Koptic Court._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr tct
_Seven Keys to Koptic Court_, Crest 1959, (m).
KEENE, DAY and Leonard Pruyn. _World Without Women._ pbo Gold
Medal, 1960, Science-fictional evening waster; all the women in
the world die off, except a few, who must be carefully protected
as potential mothers of the human race. One episode involves all
the surviving lesbians, who barricade themselves in a prison. Good
of type.
KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. _Short Term._ World, 1959. This one is just
out; reviews indicate some lesbian content, but this could be
anything from a paragraph to three chapters. BAYOR.
KENT, JUSTIN. _Mavis._ Vixen Press 1953, pbr Beacon 1960. scv.
“Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so does he, and
they are really a pair of dillies dallying....”
+ KENT, NIAL. (pseud of William LeRoy Thomas) _The Divided Path_,
(m). Greenberg 1949, Pyramid pbr 1951, 1952, 1959. For once the
plus is used to promote personal prejudice; various authorities
call this book overly sentimental. But when this hardened reviewer
finds herself in tears, she’s apt to think there must be something
to it. Childhood, adolescence and manhood of Michael, a young
homosexual, and his long-continued, scrupulously self-denying
relationship with a boyhood friend who does not suspect his
friend’s “difference”.
KENYON, THEDA. _That Skipper from Stonington._ Messner, 1946. A
juvenile novel, strangely enough, found in a high school library.
The hero runs away to sea as a small boy and is protected by a man
who is obviously homosexual, though the boy does not know it; the
other men on the ship, suspecting that this relationship is
unhealthy (it isn’t) hound the boy’s protector to suicide.
KEOGH, THEODORA. _Meg._ Creative Age Press 1950, pbr Signet 1952,
1956. Sublimated lesbianism in a very young girl.
_The Double Door._ Creative Age 1950, pbr Signet 1952, (m).
KESSEL, JOSEPH. _The Lion._ (trans. from French by Peter Green).
N. Y. Knopf 1959. One editor saw subtle variant emotion in the
mother’s attachment to a school friend.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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