Introduction: 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. 'A gay presence' : publication and revision in John Weiner's Behind the state capitol / Graham McKerrow -- 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.
Summary:
"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, the book demonstrates how the fight for representation was often waged between the covers of books in a world where spaces for queer expression were taboo. The chapters provide an array of voices and histories from the famous, Derek Jarman and Oscar Wilde, to the lesser known John Wieners and Valerie Taylor. It includes firsthand accounts of seminal moments in queer history, including the birth of Hazard Press and the Defend Gay's the Word Bookshop campaign in the 1980s."--Publisher's description.
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