When I was a hormone-crazed lad, I loved the dirty stories in gay mags and books like this – and I can now honestly claim that all that torchlight reading was research for my later career as James Lear. Too many other books in the genre portray gay men as desperate lonely freaks who occasionally have super-hot sex – true for some, of course, but not terribly helpful in those pre-liberation days. What makes Song of the Loon stand out from the pack is that it presents homosexual love and sex as something positive and good, while giving the reader plenty to wank over as well. Film clip from 1970 screen adaptation of Richard Amory's 1966 erotic pulp novel 'Song of the Loon.' The narrative tells the story of a young man making his. Amory is best known for his 1966 novel Song of the Loon: A Gay Pastoral in Five Books and. It’s one of the cornerstones of the whole m/m romance genre – historical setting (19 th-century American wilderness), ‘forbidden love’ between a butch frontiersman and any number of Native Americans, sexually explicit, frequently ridiculous. Richard Amory, born in Halfway, OR, as Richard Wallace Love. I had to have one gay pulp novel on this list, and Song of the Loon is about the only one that stands any kind of literary scrutiny.
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