Men and Boys

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Men and Boys: An Anthology
EditorEdward Mark Slocum
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
1924
Publication placeUnited States

Men and Boys: An Anthology is a rare anthology of Uranian poetry anonymously published in 1924 by American chemist Edward Mark Slocum (1886-1945). It is the first anthology focused on homosexual literature to be published in the United States. [1] [2] [3]

The authorship of the book was unknown until about half a century after the book's publication, when an academic investigation traced the identity of the self-described "technical man" who edited the book to Slocum, a chemistry graduate from the University of Tennessee who had invented a number of rubber-related and other patents. [1] As of 1970, only seven copies of the book were known to exist. [2]

The book was followed by Lads o' the Sun (1928), also anonymously published. [4] [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Review of Men and Boys". Gay Peoples Union news. May 1979. p. 42.
  2. 1 2 "The Greek Mirror: The Uranians and Their Use of Greece" . Journal of Homosexuality . 49 (3–4): 377–420. 2005. doi:10.1300/J082v49n03_14. ISSN   0091-8369.
  3. ↑ Jones, Gerald P. (1982-11-15). "The Social Study of Pederasty:: In Search of a Literature Base: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in English" . Journal of Homosexuality. 8 (1): 61–96. doi:10.1300/J082v08n01_06. ISSN   0091-8369.
  4. ↑ Smith, Timothy D.; D'Arch Smith, Timothy (1970). Love in earnest: some notes on the lives and writings of English "Uranian" poets from 1889 to 1930. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 146. ISBN   978-0-7100-6730-2.
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