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THANK YOU for subscribing to Maitland’s Vintage Gay Books Newsletter, the product of my longtime love of these paperback novels. Their authors took advantage of the freedom afforded by gay adult publishing houses to write the kind of popular fiction straight readers took for granted: mysteries, science fiction, gothic romances, thrillers, horror, Westerns and coming-of-age stories with the additional step of coming out.

And of course, those covers: Subversive twists on the sexy, colorful images that kept paperbacks flying off racks in drugstores and bus depots across America.

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Yours in pulp fiction,

Maitland