Books/Comics

Authors, books, comic strips, and comic books with gay or gay-subtext content (or a lot of beefcake).  Most were published (or read) during my childhood and adolescence, roughly 1965-1980, a few earlier or later. 

 

Authors

Amiri Baraka
Andre Norton
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Rimbaud
August Strindberg
The Beat Generation
Carl Barks
Carl Sandburg
Chaim Potok
C.S. Lewis
D.H. Lawrence
Dr. Seuss
Edgar Allan Poe
Ernest Hemingway
Federico Garcia Lorca
Frank L. Baum
Frank O'Hara
Franz Kafka
Hans Christian Andersen

Harold Monro
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
H.P. Lovecraft
Jack London
James Purdy
James Thurber
James Whitcomb Riley

John Greenleaf Whittier
John Milton
Karl May
Kurt Vonnegut
Lewis Carroll
Malcolm Boyd
Merle Miller
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Michael Moorcock
P.G. Wodehouse
Proust
Quentin Crisp
Robert Howard
Robert Louis Stevenson
Saki
Samuel Beckett
Samuel R. Delany
Thornton Wilder
Ursula K. Leguin
Violet Quill
Walt Whitman
William Faulkner
William Saroyan
William Shakespeare

Book Genres/Series

Adventure Boys Books
American Lit -- Modern; 19th Century
Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series
Bobbsey Twins
Bowery Billy
Boxcar Children
British Boys Annuals
British Lit -- Modern; Romantic; Victorian
Cat Who. . (series)
Conan the Barbarian (books)
Darkover
Fafhrd and Grey Mouser
Famous Five
French Lit -- Medieval
German Lit -- Modern
Green Library
Harry Potter
Hardy Boys
Italian Lit -- Renaissance
My Village
Oz
Sherlock Holmes
Signe de Piste
Tom Swift
Winnetou
Xanth

Books

Across a Billion Years
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Babbitt
Baby and Child Care (Spock)
Benito Cereno
The Bible
Billy Budd
The Blue Hawk
Boy in Darkness
Boy Who Cried Fabulous
The Canterbury Tales
Captains Courageous
Cell
Cheri (Colette)
The Chronicles of Narnia
Collier's Encyclopedia
Confessions of a Mask
Coral Island
Dancer from the Dance
Death in Venice

Earthfasts
Flowers of Evil
The Front Runner
General Whitman's Adventures
Gulliver's Travels
Huckleberry Finn
Inferno (Dante)
Jackanapes
Kalevipoeg (Estonian Epic)
King of the Golden River
Kon-Tiki
Land of Stories (Chris Colfer)
Last Days of Pompeii
Little Brown Koko
Little Prince
Little World of Don Camillo
The Lord of the Rings
Markings (Dag Hammarskjold)

Orphans of the Sky
The Pearl
Pidgin to da Max
Remembrance of Things Past
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Runner for the King
Seven Brothers (Finnish)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Shock-Headed Peter
Sound and the Fury
Spaceship Under the Apple Tree
Star Man's Son
Steppenwolf
Tales of the City
Things Fall Apart
Three Musketeers
Tom Jones
The Tripods
Tunnel in the Sky
Ulysses
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Universe Between
The Waste Land
The Wind in the Willows
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Wonderful Flight to Mushroom Planet
A Wrinkle in Time

Comic Books

Alix and Enak
Andy Panda
Archie (Betty/ Veronica, Jughead)
Boys' Life
Bravo: Blood Brothers in German class
Bugs Bunny Comics
Buster Brown
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Cavelo
Charlton Comics
Chrononauts
Classics Illustrated
Conan the Barbarian (comic book)
Corentin
DC Comics Muscle; DC Comics Jungle
Doc Savage
Donald Duck
Elfquest

Four Color Comics
Gay Comix

Graphic Novel

Grit: Beefcake and bonding in an attic in rural Indiana
Herbie
Hot Stuff the Little Devil
Hugh Bowman
Jerry Lewis
Jimmy Olson
Joe Palooka
Jungle comics
Kamandi
Kaliman
Kaptara
Kimba (Italian Tarzan)
Li'l Jinx
Little Dot, Lotta, and Audrey
Little Lulu
Little Max
Luluzinha (Little Lulu in Brazil)
Mad Magazine: Cynicism, guilt, and homophobia
Manga (Japanese comics)
Mr. Muscles
The New Yorker: Elitism, homophobia, and a scary 18th century dandy
Richie Rich
Robin the Boy Wonder
Sandman
Spirou and Fantasio
Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost
Superhero Comics of the 1940s
Superboy
Superman
Suske en Wiske
Tintin
Toka, Jungle King
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
Werewolf by Night
Zagor

Comic Strips

The Addams Family
Alphonse and Gaston
Alley Oop
Bazooka Joe
Beetle Bailey
Bringing Up Father
Captain Easy
Cul de Sac
Dennis the Menace
Donelan
Doonesbury
Gasoline Alley; Gasoline Alley 2
Get Fuzzy
Henry
Krazy Kat
Leonard and Larry
Li'l Abner
Little Nemo in Slumberland
Mark Trail
Out Our Way
Peanuts
Pearls Before Swine
Peter Pat
The Phantom and Son
Pogo
PopeyePrince Valiant
The Princess
Terry and the Pirates
Winthrop
Wizard of Id
Zits