The titles seized by HM Customs & Excise from Gay’s the Word in three separate actions between April and October 1984, as recorded in Capital Gay, 2 November 1984¹

The truly unbelievable

Carpenter, Edward Iolaus: An Anthology of Friendship

Pizan, Christine de The Book of the City of Ladies

Newspapers and magazines

The Advocate

Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay Journalism from the Body Politic

Christopher Street Aphrodisiac: Fiction from Christopher Street

Common Lives, Lesbian Lives: A Lesbian Feminist Quarterly

Gai Pied

Gay Sunshine Journal

New York Native

History

Evans, Arthur Witchcraft and Gay Counter Culture

Faderman, Lillian Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendships and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

Faderman, Lillian Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon

Rictor, Frank The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals

Biography and autobiography

Brogan, Jim Jack and Jim: A Personal Journal of the ’70s

Gay Sunshine Interviews Vol. 1 1978 & Vol. II 1982

Harrison, William Burton & Speke

Lane, Erskine Game-Texts: A Guatemalan Journal

Rorem, Ned Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem

Rumaker, Michael A Day and Night at the Baths

Sartre, Jean-Paul St Genet

Smith, Michael J. Black Men White Men

Waters, John Shock Value

Notes from a Marriage

Parisian Lives

Politics and studies

Greene, Gerald & Caroline S&M: The Last Taboo

Morin, Jack Men Loving Themselves

Rivers, Julius Edwin Proust and the Art of Love

Tripp, C.A. The Homosexual Matrix

Weinberg, Thomas & Kamel, G.W. Levi S&M: Studies in Sadomasochism Men Behind Bars

Men in Erotic Art

Sex Behind Bars

Women and Madness

Women Fiction

Feminism in the ‘80s

Humour

Christopher Street And God Bless Uncle Harry and His Roommate Jack (Who We’re Not Supposed to Talk About)

Christopher Street Le Gay Ghetto

Giteck, Larry Cruise to Win

The Simply Divine Cut-Out Doll Book

Henly, Clark The Butch Manual

Tress, Arthur Facing Up

Books for young people

Ecker, B.A. Independence Day

Kirkwood, James There Must Be a Pony

Knudson, R.R. You Are the Rain

Knudson, R.R. Fox Running

Scoppettone, Sandra Happy Endings are All Alike

Health, sex and counselling guides

Blank, Joanie The Playbook for Men About Sex

Blank, Joanie The Playbook for Women About Sex

Borhek, Mary V. Coming Out to Parents

Cahill, Dr Kevin M. The Aids Epidemic

Silverstein, Dr Charles & White, Edmund The Joy of Gay Sex

Silverstein, Dr Charles A Family Matter: A Parents’ Guide to Homosexuality

Sisley, Dr Emily & Harris, Bertha The Joy of Lesbian Sex

Walker, Mitch Men Loving Men

Witches Heal

Parents of the Homosexual

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Look Me in the Eye

Poetry

Everhead, Jim Cute

Genet, Jean Treasures of the Night

Ginsberg, Allen & Orlovsky, Peter Straight Hearts Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters

Peterson, Robert What Dillinger Meant to Me

Piercy, Marge Circles on the Water

Drama

Browne, Alan Forty Deuce

Helbing, Terry (editor) Directory of Gay Plays

Morris, Sidney If This Isn’t Love

Wilson, Doric Street Theater

Fierstein, Harvey Torch Song Trilogy

Contemporary gay and lesbian fiction

Andrews, Terry (pseudonym) The Story of Harold

Barnes, Djuna Ryder

Caffrey, John The Coming Out Party

Caminha, Adolfo Bom-Crioulo

Cameron, Anne The Journey

Carney, William The Rose Exterminator

Chambers, Jane Burning

Curzon, Daniel From Violent Men

Curzon, Daniel Human Warmth & Other Stories

Diaman, N.A. Ed Dean is Queer

Diaman, N.A. Second Crossing

Esser, Kevin Streetboy Dreams

Fisher, Pete Special Teachers Special Boys

Garden, Nancy Annie on My Mind

Genet, Jean Querelle

Grahn, Judy (editor) True Life Adventure Stories Vol. 1

Hamilton, Wallace Coming Out

Hamilton, Wallace Kevin

Hansen, Joseph Death Claims

Herron, Bob Moritz

Kent, Girard The Boy Harlequin and Other Stories

Kirkwood, James P.S. Your Cat is Dead

Koertge, Noretta Who Was That Masked Woman

Levy, Owen A Brother’s Touch

Leyland, Winston (editor) My Deep Dark Pain is Love

Leyland, Winston (editor) Now the Volcano

Maugham, Robin The Boy from Beirut: and Other Stories

Maugham, Robin Enemy

Merrick, Gordon An Idol for Others

Merrick, Gordon Forth Into Light

Merrick, Gordon The Lord Won’t Mind

Merrick, Gordon Now Let’s Talk About Music

Merrick, Gordon One for the Gods

Merrick, Gordon Perfect Freedom

Merrick, Gordon The Quirk

Mitchell, Larry Terminal Bar

Monette, Paul Taking Care of Mrs Carroll

Murdoch, Royal The Disrobing

Nelson, Charles The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up

Picano, Felice Slashed to Ribbons in the Defence of Love: And Other Stories

Preston, John Mister Benson

Rechy, John The Vampires

Rumaker, Michael My First Satyrnalia

Snyder, Anne Counter Play

Stevenson, Richard Death Trick

Torchia, Joseph The Kryptonite Kid

Vidal, Gore A Thirsty Evil

Virga, Vincent A Comfortable Corner

Virga, Vincent Gaywick

Vojir, Dan The Sunny Side of Castro Street

Warren, Patricia Nell The Front Runner

Wilson, Carter Treasures on Earth

Zapata, Luis Adonis Garcia

Erotic fiction and autobiography

Andros, Phil (pseudonym of Samuel Steward, friend of Gertrude Stein) Below the Belt and Other Stories

Andros, Phil (pseudonym of Samuel Steward) My Brother, My Self

Andros, Phil (pseudonym of Samuel Steward) Roman Conquests

Camus, Renaud Tricks: 25 Encounters

Coriolan, John Unzipped

Kelly, Dennis Chicken

Wilde, Oscar (attributed to) Teleny

First Hand

Cum

Flesh

Sex

Meat

The ones GTW cannot identify

Body Parts

Cross Sections

Male Love

The Winged Dancer

Winter Music

Breathing Room

Cry to Heaven

Motherbound

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1 The information in this appendix comes from the original list published in Capital Gay, 2 Nov. 1984.