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- ↑ The Social Security Death Index lists Peter T. Hughes, who died in San Luis Obispo, CA.
- 1 2 Gunn, Drewey Wayne (2012). The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 12, 14. ISBN 9780810885882 . Retrieved 2014-10-23.
- ↑ "Authors: Hughes, Peter Tuesday". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. October 22, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
- ↑ Amory, Richard (1972). "A Bitter Man's Travels, International and Internal". Vector. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
- ↑ "Celebrating Great Gay Mysteries". Lambda Literary Review. January 7, 2013. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
- ↑ Gunn, Drewey Wayne, and Jaime Harker, eds., 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013), 316.
- ↑ Gunn, Drewey Wayne (August 10, 2011). "Dirk Vanden: Pioneer Of Gay Literature". Lambda Literary Review. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
- ↑ See Tom Norman, American Gay Erotic Paperbacks: A Bibliography (Burbank, CA, 1994), 61