Gay Roots

Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine Press
An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, and Politics & Culture
Edited by Winston Leyland
Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco, 1991

“Corporal In Charge of Taking Care of Captain O’Malley”

One-Act Play by Jack Fritscher

GAY  ROOTS: Table of Contents

GAY HISTORY

• Arab Civilization and Male Love — Marc Daniel (Translated from French by Winston Leyland
  
• Living in Truth: Akhenaten of Egypt (Reigned 1379-1362 B.C.) — Winston Leyland
  
• Russia’s Gay Literature and History from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries — Simon Karlinsky
  
• Gay London in the 1720s: The Great Raid on Mother Clap’s — Molly House, Rictor Norton
  
• Tinselled Bucks: An Historical Study in Indian Homosexuality — Maurice Kenny
  
• Big Buck & Big Lick: Abe Lincoln & Walt Whitman — Charley Shively
  
• Seven Poems — Walt Whitman
  
• The German Youth Movement (Wandervogel) — Richard Mills
  
• Gay Resistance: Homosexuals in the Anti-Nazi Underground — Ian Young
  
• Mexican Gaylife in Historical Perspective — Clark L. Taylor, Jr.

GAY SEX AND POLITICS

• Showdown at the Stud — Anonymous
  
• Huey Newton on Gay Liberation — Huey Newton
  
• My Gay Soul — Gay Alinder
  
• Games Male Chauvinists Play — Perry Brass
  
• Gay Love — Richard Nash
  
• Cartoon — Bruce Reifel
  
• Hero Comic — Kirby Congdon
  
• The Adventures of Johnny Comeout — Steve Fabus
  
• We’ve Got a Groovy Thing Going: An Interview with Five Gay Brothers/Sisters — Winston Leyland
  
• Will You Still Need Me When I’m 64? — Ralph Schaffer
  
• Movement Martyr: Ralph Schaffer, 1928-1972 — Richard Nash, Winston Leyland, Perry Brass
  
• Gay Lib and New Gay Literature — Winston Leyland
  
• A Faggot Father Speaks Out — Jack Latham
  
• Indiscriminate Promiscuity as an Act of Revolution — Charley Shively

GAY IN PRISON: FOUR ACCOUNTS

• Dachau in America — Don Jackson
  
• Gay Prison Tragedy — Allen Young
  
• Sex Behind Bars — Robert N. Boyd
  
• Prison Sex at Age 16 — Dalton Loyd Williams
  
• The New Censorship and Repression — John Rechy
  
• Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams — José Joaquín Blanco (Translated from Spanish by Edward A. Lacey)
  
• Watersports Is Baptism by a Buddy — Geoff Mains
  
• True Experiences from “Straight to Hell” — Boyd McDonald et al.

GAY BIOGRAPHY AND LITERARY ESSAYS

• The Gay Succession: Walt Whitman Slept with Edward Carpenter; Edward Carpenter Slept with Gavin Arthur; Gavin Arthur Slept with Dean Moriarty; Dean Moriarty Slept with Allen Ginsberg; Allen Ginsberg Slept with… — Gavin Arthur
  
• On Sexual Identity in His Plays — Tennessee Williams
  
• Ganymede Raped: Gay Literature–The Critic as Censor — Rictor Norton
  
• Being Alone — Ned Rorem
  
• Lines for Brian: A True Account — Leo Dreu
  
• Oscar Wilde and the Mystery of “Teleny” — Winston Leyland
  
• The Story of the Slave Called “Charming” — Ahmad al-Tifashi (Translated into English by Edward A. Lacey)
  
• Chumming with a Savage: Kána-Aná — Charles Warren Stoddard
  
• The Gay Sunshine Interview Series (Excerpts) — Winston Leyland, editor
  
• GoreVidal, Lou Harrison, John Giorno, Roger Peyrefitte, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg
  
• An Interview with Christopher Isherwood — Winston Leyland
  
• The Cinema of Camp — Jack Babuscio
  
• The Mishima — Jacob Stockinger
  
• John Horne Burns: A Forgotten Faggot — John Mitzel
  
• Reflections on Gay Lovers — Malcolm Boyd
  
• The Senussi Soldier — Robin Maugham
  
• Latin America: Myths and Realities — Edward A Lacey
  
• Orgy — Tulio Carella (Translated from Portuguese by Edward A. Lacey

GAY FICTION

• Roberto — Girard Kent
  
• A Draw — Paul Verlaine (Translated from French by W. Gunn)
  
• Part-time Hustler — Darcy Penteado (Translated from Portuguese by Edward A Lacey)
  
• Sergeant Garcia — Caio Fernando Abreu (Translated from Portuguese by Edward A. Lacey)
  
• Westheimer — Lars Eighner
  
• Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O’Malley — Jack Fritscher
  
• First Communion — Joseph Torchia
  

GAY POETRY

• Abu Nuwas (Translated into English by Edward A. Lacey)
  How I Became a Poet
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  Sweet Boy, Gimme Yr Ass
  Please Master
  Night Gleam
  Woke Me Up Naked
  Come All Ye Brave Boys
• Peter Orlovsky
  Some One Liked Me When I Was Twelve
  Tanger Surprise
  
• Luis Cernuda (Translated from Spanish by Rick Lipinski)
  The Blackbird, The Seagull
  Sailors Are the Wings of Love
  Farewell
  Some Bodies Are Like Flowers
  
• Edward A. Lacey
  Ramon
  Guatemala
  Mesón Brujo
  Abdelfatteh
  
• Jim Eggeling (J.L.S.E.)
  Invocation
  The Ganymede Equation
  Thirteen: a Fifth for the Fourth at Jim?s
  Paidagogy
  
• Jonathan Williams
  Five Texts from “Imaginary Postcards”
  
• Gavin Dillard
  as a ripe avocado he plucks me
  
• Robert Peters
  Two Poems: Ludwig II of Bavaria to His Lover Richard Hornig (Nude; Richard)
  
• John Giorno
  Pornographic Poem – Exhibitionist
  
• Charles Henri Ford
  I Would Like to Have Seen Rupert Brooke and King Shrigalava Making Love
  
• Antler
  For Blowjob Power
  The Immortality of Boylove
  
• Arthur Rimbaud (Translated from French by J. Murat and W. Gunn)
  Our Asses Are Not Like Theirs
  Sonnet: To the Asshole
  
• Paul Verlaine (Translated from French by J. Murat and W. Gunn)
  Mille e Tre
  Heavy Session
  The Gay Heritage
  
• Jean Genet (Translated from French by Steven Finch)
  The Man Sentenced to Death
  
• William Barber
  Hustler Joe
  
• Ian Young
  Five Poems from Yukio Mishima?s ?Forbidden Colors?
  
• Ed Cox
  Waking
  Cruising
  Evening
  
• John Selby
  Covenant
  

EIGHT BOSTON POETS

• John Wieners
  Gusta with Madame Simone de Beauvoir
  The Potato King
  On a White Cloth
  How Dare You
  
• Sal Fairnella
  Sweet Sixteen
  Dead End Orgy
  
• Steve Jonas
  Poem
  
• Charley Shively
  Snow Poem
  Immediately
  You Can Live on French Bread Alone
  
• David Emerson Smith
  sensual lithe Puerto Rican boy smiles
  
• Freddie Greenfield
  Tom
  
• Ron Schreiber
  1/3
  
• David Eberly
  Dark of the Moon
  Nothing
  
• Antônio Botto (Translated from Portuguese by Edward A. Lacey)
  Curiosidades Estéticas no. 16 (Esthetic Curiosities No. 16)
  
• Vallery Pereleshin (Translated from Portuguese by Edward A. Lacey)
  Ao Jovem de Olhos Verdes (To the Green Eyed Boy)
  Pushkin?s Gay Poem
  

THREE RUSSIAN POETS (Translated from Russian by Simon Karlinsky)

• Nikolai Klyuev
  That fellow with the green eyes
  
• Sergei Esenin
  Yesterday’s rain is still on the ground
  
• Mikhail Kuzmin
  Nine delightful birthmarks
  At the Party
  
• Kirby Congon
  Cadets
  The Exhibitionist
  
• W.H. Auden
  A Day for a Lay
  
• Jim Everhard
  Cute
  Reasons Why I Love You
  Mysteries of the Heart
  James Dean
  Coming
  Blondes and Brunettes
  
• Edward Field
  Street Instructions: At the Crotch
  
• Dennis Kelly
  Four Love Lyrics
  Graphemics II
  Two Poems for Casey (Paterson; Heavenly Kid/Earthly Kid)
  Gourmontesque Notebook
  
• Jon Herzstam
  Cruising
  
• Dino Christianopoulos (Translated from Greek by Kimon Friar)
  The Centurion Cornelius
  Incident in Athens
  Making Love
  You Open and Close Like a Flower
  Almond Trees
  
• Jamiel Daud Hassen
  Freddi
  
• Adrian Stanford
  yeah baby
  
• Mutsuo Takahashi (Translated from Japanese by Kiroaki Sato)
  Myself with a Glory Hole
  Myself with a Motorcycle
  The Rose Tree
  
• Taylor Mead
  Autobiography
  
• Aaron F. Steele
  song my mother also sang
  
• Richard Ronan
  The History of Kabuki
  
• James Kirkup
  Elegy for Pier Paolo Pasolini (Murdered, Rome, November 2, 1975)
  
• Jeffery Beam
  Tonight Desire Has a Man in It
  
• Will Inman
  Wounded Bird, Dark Iris
  Paul
  Room in Here for You
  
• Royal Murdoch
  Soldier
  Pedro Nel Mejía
  Criticisms and Witticisms
  
• Cassiano Nunes (Translated from Portuguese by Edward A. Lacey)
  Episódio / Episode
  Dois Seres e Uma Flor / Two Beings and a Flower
  
• Ernesto Bañuelos Enriquez (Translated from Spanish by Edward A. Lacey)
  Estupendo acompañante / Wonderful companion
  
• Thomas Meyer
  Boy Muse, Uranian Roses for Strato (Selections)
  
• Jack Veasey
  Enter the Beautiful
  
• Winston Leyland
  Memory Recaptured

Afterword: Flowers of the Garden Perfume Us: Gay Sunshine 1970-1990 — Charley Shively