> I'm looking for suggestions as to what would be the
best way to go
> about researching paperback cover art and blurbs from
the period 1945-65.
> I'm particularly interested in finding books that a.
refer to (directly or
> indirectly) homosexuality, and b. refer to Kinsey or
his report.
A notable example of an explicitly lesbian protagonist is
Howard
Browne's "Halo in Brass". Browne wrote a short introduction
for the
Dennis MacMillan reissue, in which he laments the way in
which he
treated the topic - but reminds the reader that such
unsympathetic views
of homosexuality were prevalent in the forties and that he
shared those
views at the time he wrote the book.
By the way, the novel is excellent (I guess this is not news
to most
raravians).
Regards,
Mario Taboada
P.S. I remember a lesbian character, treated sympathetically
in an old
Gault novel from the mid fifties, but for the life of me
can't recall
the title. Gault was extremely broad-minded and generally
sympathetic
towards ethnic minorities, women, immigrants, and homosexuals
- a
notable exception among the hardboiled writers of his day,
who as a norm
were about as open minded and respectful of "different"
people as the
average American mite whale...
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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