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 1984
The truly unbelievable
Carpenter, Edward Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship
Pizan, Christine de The Book of the City of Ladies
Newspapers and magazines
The Advocate
Jackson, Ed and Persky, Stan (eds.) Flaunting It!: A Decade of Gay Journalism from the Body Politic: an anthology
Christopher Street Aphrodisiac: Fiction from Christopher Street
Common Lives/Lesbian Lives: A Lesbian Feminist Quarterly No. 8, Summer 1983
Gai Pied
Gay Sunshine JournalNo. 47: Anthology of Fiction/Poetry/Prose
New York Native Issue 82, January 30-February 12, 1984 & Issue 83, February 13-26, 1984
History
Evans, Arthur Witchcraft and Gay the Counterculture: A Radical View of Western Civilization and Some of the People it Has Tried to Destroy
Faderman, Lillian Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Faderman, Lillian Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon
Rector, Frank The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals
Biography and autobiography
Brogan, Jim Jack and Jim: A Personal Journal of the ’70s
Leyland, Winston (ed.) 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 A Night at the Baths
Sartre, Jean-Paul Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
Smith, Michael J. (ed.) Black Men/White Men: A Gay Anthology
Waters, John Shock Value
Dillard, Gavin Notes from a Marriage: Love Poems
Steward, Samuel M. Parisian Lives
Politics and studies
Greene, Gerald & Greene, Caroline S-M: The Last Taboo
Morin, Jack Men Loving Themselves: Images of Male Self-Sexuality
Rivers, Julius Edwin Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the Life, Times, and Art of Marcel Proust
Tripp, C.A. The Homosexual Matrix
Weinberg, Thomas & Kamel, G.W. Levi (editors) S&M: Studies in Sadomasochism Men Behind Bars
Men in Erotic Art: [a catalog] from Rob Gallery
Sex Behind Bars
Chesler, Phyllis Women and Madness
Stubbs, Patricia Women and Fiction: Feminism and the Novel, 1880-1920
Feminism in the ‘80spossibly Facing Down the Right and Going Public With our Vision two pamphlets by Charlotte Bunch
Humour
Christopher Street And God Bless Uncle Harry and His Roommate Jack (Who We’re Not Supposed to Talk About): Cartoons from Christopher Street
Christopher Street Le Gay Ghetto
Giteck, Lenny Cruise to Win
The Simply Divine Cut-Out Doll Book
Henley, Clark The Butch Manual: The Current Drag and How to Do It
Tress, Arthur Facing Up
Books for young people
Ecker, B.A. Independence Day
Kirkwood, Jim 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, Joani The Playbook for Men About Sex
Blank, Joani The Playbook for Women About Sex
Borhek, Mary V. Coming Out to Parents: A Two-Way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and Their Parents
Cahill, Dr Kevin M. (editor) The AIDS Epidemic
Silverstein, Dr Charles & White, Edmund The Joy of Gay Sex: An Intimate Guide for Gay Men to the Pleasures of a Gay Lifestyle
Silverstein, Dr Charles A Family Matter: A Parents’ Guide to Homosexuality
Sisley, Dr Emily L. & Harris, Bertha The Joy of Lesbian Sex: A Tender and Liberated Guide to the Pleasures and Problems of a Lesbian Lifestyle
Walker, Mitch Men Loving Men: A Gay Sex Guide and Consciousness Book
Potts, Billie Witches Heal: Lesbian Herbal Self-Sufficiency
Switzer, David K. and Switzer, Shirley Parents of the Homosexual
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Macdonald, Barbara and Rich, Cynthia Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging, and Ageism
Poetry
Everhard, Jim Cute: And Other Poems
Genet, Jean Treasures of the Night: The Collected Poems of Jean Genet
Ginsberg, Allen & Orlovsky, Peter Straight Hearts’ Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947-1980
Peters, Robert What Dillinger Meant to Me
Piercy, Marge Circles on the Water: Selected Poems
Drama
Bowne, Alan Forty-Deuce: A Play
Helbing, Terry (editor) Gay Theatre Alliance Directory of Gay Plays
Morris, Sidney If This Isn’t Love!: (Two Men – Twenty Years – In Three Acts)
Wilson, Doric Street Theater: the Twenty-Seventh of June, 1969, in Two Acts
Fierstein, Harvey Torch Song Trilogy
Contemporary gay and lesbian fiction
Andrews, Terry (pseudonym) The Story of Harold
Barnes, Djuna Ryder
Caffey, John The Coming Out Party
Caminha, Adolfo Bom-Crioulo: The Black Man and the Cabin Boy
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, Peter and Rubin, Marc Special Teachers/Special Boys
Garden, Nancy Annie on My Mind
Genet, Jean Querelle of Brest
Grahn, Judy (editor) True To Life Adventure Stories Vol. 1
Hamilton, Wallace Coming Out
Hamilton, Wallace Kevin
Hansen, Joseph Death Claims
Herron, Bob Moritz!: A Comic Novel
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: A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction
Leyland, Winston (editor) Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature
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 The Terminal Bar
Monette, Paul Taking Care of Mrs Carroll
Murdoch, Royal The Disrobing: Sex and Satire
Nelson, Charles The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up
Picano, Felice Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love: And Other Stories
Preston, John Mister Benson
Rechy, John The Vampires
Rumaker, Michael My First Satyrnalia
Snyder, Anne and Pelletier, Louis Counter Play
Stevenson, Richard Death Trick
Torchia, Joseph The Kryptonite Kid
Vidal, Gore A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories
Virga, Vincent A Comfortable Corner
Virga, Vincent Gaywyck
Vojir, Dan The Sunny Side of Castro Street: A Diary of Sorts
Warren, Patricia Nell The Front Runner
Wilson, Carter Treasures on Earth
Zapata, Luis Adonis García: A Picaresque Novel
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: A Novella and Six Short Stories
Kelly, Dennis Chicken
Wilde, Oscar (attributed to) Teleny
First Hand
McDonald, Boyd (ed.) Cum: True Homosexual Experiences from S.T.H. Writers Vol. 4
McDonald, Boyd (ed. of S.T.H.), Leyland, Winston (ed. of anthology) Flesh: True Homosexual Experiences from S.T.H. Vol. 2
McDonald, Boyd (ed.), Leyland, Winston (ed. of anthology) Sex: True Homosexual Experiences from S.T.H. Writers Vol. 3
McDonald, Boyd (ed.) Meat: How Men Look, Act, Walk, Talk, Dress, Undress, Taste, and Smell
The ones GTW cannot identify
Body Parts it is not clear, but possibly could be Jenkins, Christie Body Parts: A Woman Looks at Men’s
Janeway, Elizabeth Cross Sections: From a Decade of Change
Symonds, John Addington Male Love: A Problem in Greek Ethics and Other Writings
Grae, Camarin The Winged Dancer
Rile, Karen Winter Music
Breathing Room
Rice, Anne Cry to Heaven
Johnston, Jill Mother Bound: Autobiography in Search of a Father