Queer between the covers : : histories of queer publishing and publishing queer voices / / edited by Leila Kassir and Richard Espley.

Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. Chronicling the gay struggle for acceptance and liberation, this book demonstrates how the fight for representation was often waged secretly between the covers of books at a time when...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : University of London Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (144 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Publishing queer/queer publishing
  • 'A gay presence' : publication and revision in John Weiner's Behind the state capitol / David Grundy
  • Derek Jarman's queer histories : Derek Jarman's Caravaggio / Alexandra Parsons
  • The queer art of Artists' books : Hazard Press / Jeremy Dixon
  • Teleny : a tale of two cities / Will Visconti
  • Midwestern farmers' daughters : heartland values and cloaked resistance in the novels of Valerie Taylor / Jennifer Dentel
  • Saving Gay's the Word : the campaign to protect a bookshop and the right to import queer literature / Graham McKerrow
  • The titles seized by HM Customs & Excise from Gay's the Word in three separate actions between April and October 1984, as recorded in Capital gay, November 1984.