Der Eigene
Der Eigene: Ein Blatt für männliche Kultur was a periodical published between 1896 and 1932 presented poetry, photography, and political texts mostly related homophile interests. UBC has the 1906 volume, which was the only hardcover production of the journal.
The Camp Followers’ Guide
The Camp Followers’ Guide (1965) by Niles Chignon By offering how-to tips about the camp sensibility and “how to do it,” this light-hearted 1965 pulp title witnesses the more open-minded attitudes of the 1960s and the mainstreaming of gay subcultural styles.
The Young and Evil
The Young and Evil (1933) by Charles Ford and Parker Tyler A classic of queer modernism that was championed by Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes, this first edition of the controversial gay novel focuses on bohemian life in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1920s and 1930s. Published in Paris, many copies were seized and destroyed […]
Hellas
The magazine Hellas was published 1953-1954, one of several post-World War II homophile publications in the German-speaking area.
Les Fellatores
Les Fellatores: Moeurs de la Décadence (1888) Both the author and publisher of this nineteenth-century French erotic novel about decadence and homosexuality were heavily fined and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for violating public morals.
Sexual Inversion
Sexual Inversion (1897), written by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, first appeared in German in 1896 and was the first English medical text on homosexuality (called “sexual inversion”).
Der Weg German magazines
First edited by founder Rolf Putziger in Hamburg, this early post-World War II gay journal began in 1951 as Die Insel: Monatsblätter für Freundschaft und Toleranz, but was later renamed Der Weg zu Freundschaft und Toleranz (The Path to Friendship and Tolerance). In addition to its photos of male physique, the magazine featured discussions especially of relevance […]
L’Homme Sirène
L’Homme Sirène The mysterious author of this rare fin-de-siècle queer novel, Louis Didier, concealed his identity under the pseudonym Luis D’Herdy.
