gay fiction One of the earliest widely read pro gay fiction, c. 1955

[JamesSavik]

 

 

If you want to read the actual story, here's the link:>> The Crooked Man, by Charles Beaumont

[LJCC]

The comments in the story are gold:

Straight pride

As you read the short story you can’t help but draw parallels to how events are unfolding in America with the hyper acceptance of homosexual propaganda, and the junk science of the non existent homosexual DNA. It is chilling and frightening the backward progress homosexual offenders are making in all walks of public and private life. We now have a military that gives special protection, treatment and clearance for soldiers to openly practice dishonorable homosexual conduct/sex. Our “safe school” Czar appointed by Obama has brazenly boasted his intention to queer our children with homosexual social engineering. Children are being punished in schools for having a biblical worldview concerning homosexual perversion. People are getting fired, not being hired and/or promoted if they have a work place that favors homosexual conduct. More and more those who oppose the demonic homosexual agenda are unjustly being labelled the sick bigots who are really the ones who need “fixing.” If backward progress continues at the current rate in favor of the homosexual lie, then Charles Beaumont’s “The Crooked Man” short story may very well be eventually made fully manifest in the very near future. And if that is the case, I for one will not go quietly into the night!

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0 September 22. 2014 at 3:38 am

noteven

You are a fucking idiot.

[Zombie]

I was never into Playboy

too much writing and not enough boys  

[LJCC]

On 2/7/2024 at 11:48 PM, Zombie said:

I was never into Playboy

too much writing and not enough boys  

😂 I'm guilty of buying Playgirl. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

I wonder if that is the same man who wrote all those amazing Twilight Zone episodes? I'm too lazy to actually do the research though. 

J

[W_L]

On 7/11/2024 at 6:28 PM, Jason Rimbaud said:

I wonder if that is the same man who wrote all those amazing Twilight Zone episodes? I'm too lazy to actually do the research though. 

J

Fun Fact: Charles Beaumont, the famed writer for several Twilight Zone episodes, started getting published in Playboy starting in 1954 and test this was one of his stories, being gay in the 1950s was no picnic. 

My personal favorite among his Twilight Zone stories is "Valley of the Shadow", he essentially created the transporter, replicator, and force field technologies that we see in future iterations of Star Trek, along with the concept of an advanced civilization hiding in plain sight to avoid the dangers of human technological perversion (aka. "Black Panther" in small town America). It's modern sci-fi at its core.

[Jason Rimbaud]

1 hour ago, W_L said:

Fun Fact: Charles Beaumont, the famed writer for several Twilight Zone episodes, started getting published in Playboy starting in 1954 and test this was one of his stories, being gay in the 1950s was no picnic. 

My personal favorite among his Twilight Zone stories is "Valley of the Shadow", he essentially created the transporter, replicator, and force field technologies that we see in future iterations of Star Trek, along with the concept of an advanced civilization hiding in plain sight to avoid the dangers of human technological perversion (aka. "Black Panther" in small town America). It's modern sci-fi at its core.

I have written my version of that very story so many times, imagine force fields during sex play. One of my favorites in the whole series, Beaumont was almost as good as Sterling in my opinion. By the way, never knew the man was gay. 

I do know that Playboy, once upon a time, was on the cutting edge of social issues long before he was a perverted old man wearing PJ's in a mansion smelling of dog poop. 

J

[W_L]

9 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

I have written my version of that very story so many times, imagine force fields during sex play. One of my favorites in the whole series, Beaumont was almost as good as Sterling in my opinion. By the way, never knew the man was gay. 

I do know that Playboy, once upon a time, was on the cutting edge of social issues long before he was a perverted old man wearing PJ's in a mansion smelling of dog poop. 

J

Not sure if he was gay, but he did write about the gay experience in the 1950s with Crooked Man, so possibly in the closet if he was. Of course, he might just be an ally. He did have a wife and son, but during that era and even into our own, it's not uncommon for gay and bisexual men to pass as straight, while have liaisons with their preferred sexual partners on the side for social conformity.