LGBTIQ+ Performing Arts
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Beautiful Thing: An Urban Fairytale
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First Edition.
18.5cm x 12cm. [6], 71 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Very minor shelfwear. Very minor foxing to edges. Minor to moderate tanning. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Under A Mantle of Stars: A Play in Two Acts
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First US Edition.
20cm x 13cm. 64 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor sticker marks to front cover. Minor crease to rear cover. Foxing to edges. Good Condition. -
Male Armor: Selected Plays, 1968-1974
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First Edition.
21cm x 13cm. xv, 352 pages. Lettered wrappers.
YOUNG 1083*.
Soil and foxing to edges. Discolouration to spine. Previous owner’s signature in pencil. Good Condition. -
Three Plays For a Gay Theater & Three Essays
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First Trade Paperback Edition.
22cm x 14cm. 177 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Shelf wear. MInor foxing to edges. Signature of Dr. Gary Simes, in ink. Very Good Condition. -
Hosanna
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Second Printing.
21cm x 14cm. 104 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor general wear. Foxing to top edge. Very Good Condition. -
Out Front: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Plays
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First Edition.
24cm x 15cm. xxviii, 564 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Contemporary gay and lesbian plays by Robert Chesley, Harvey Fierstein, William M. Hoffman, Holly Hughes, Harry Kondoleon, Emily Mann, Terrence McNally, Martin Sherman, Evan Smith, Kathleen Tolan, and Doric Wilson.
Moderate wear to wrappers and foxing to edges. Signature of Dr. Gary Simes. Good Condition. -
Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars
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First Edition.
22cm x 13cm. xxviii, 353 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema.
Minor creasing to wrappers. Minor foxing. Previous owner’s name in ink, minor marginalia in pencil.. Very Good Condition. -
Beneath the Sequined Surface: An Insight into Sydney Drag
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First Edition.
20cm x 29.5cm. xii, 156 pages. Pictorial french fold wrappers.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Very Good Condition. -
Carlotta: I’m Not That Kind of Girl
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Reprint.
23.5cm x 15.5cm. 246 pages, [24] pages of illustrations, some in colour. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor shelf wear and soiling. Previous owner’s sticker. Very Good Condition. -
Forever After: A Vivisection of Gaymale Love Without Intermission
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First Edition.
19cm x 13cm. 76 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Soiling to wrappers. Foxing to edges. Good Condition. -
Hard Plays / Stiff Parts: The Homoerotic Plays of Robert Chesley
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First Thus.
21cm x 14cm. 159 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
First edition in this collected form. Three plays by Robert Chesley: 1. Night Sweat; 2. Jerker; 3. Dog Plays. Illustrated by Art Jagonosi with an introduction by Bert Herrman.
Minor general wear, minor tanning to edge of wrappers. Bookplate of Dr. Gary Simes, date in ink to verso of rear cover. Very Good Condition. -
The White Rose of Annandale: A Play
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First Edition.
21cm x 14.5cm. 99 pages. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
Gay Sydney play first performed in 1991.
Very minor creasing. Minor foxing. Sticker remnant to wrappers upper panel. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
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Third Printing.
23cm x 15cm. xii, 276 pages. Pictorial wrappers
Minor creasing. Foxing to edges. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Rents
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First Edition.
21cm x 15cm. 47 pages. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Moderate foxing and soiling to wrappers and edges. Moderate general wear. Signature of Dr. Gary Simes, in ink. Good Condition. -
The History of Lesbian Theatre in New Zealand
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Second Printing.
21cm x 15cm. 26 pages, illustrations, some colour. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
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Pansy Beat
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. 416 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated boards.
“Pansy Beat was a short-lived fanzine published by Michael Economy in New York from 1989 to 1990, totalling five quarterly issues. Each issue’s 50-some black-and-white pages documented the exuberant downtown gay and drag club scene of that era and included one free condom. The zine offered a glimpse into an exhilarating alternative universe during the darkest years of the AIDS crisis. Interviews profiled downtown personalities on the verge of global stardom, many still working to this day. Artists such as Lady Bunny, Billy Erb, Connie Fleming, Kenny Kenny, Lady Miss Kier and Larry Tee first shared their memorable selves in print on the pages of Pansy Beat. The zine also featured interviews with Edwige Belmore, Leigh Bowery and Quentin Crisp. This book celebrates Pansy Beat’s brief but influential life, including a reprinting of all five issues in their original format, previously unseen photographs by staff photographer Michael Fazakerley, new full-color artwork by some of the original contributors, plus new essays and interviews.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Mercy Drop and Other Plays
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First Edition.
21cm x 13.5cm. [vi], 137 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Foxing to top edge, minor to other edges. Previous owners’ name and stamp. Very Good Condition. -
What A Drag
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First Edition.
27.5cm x 21cm. [xii], 267 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Creasing and minor soiling to wrappers. Minor tanning to edges. Good Condition. -
Beneath the Sequined Surface: An Insight into Sydney Drag
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First Edition.
20cm x 29.5cm. xii, 156 pages. Pictorial french fold wrappers.
Minor creasing to wrappers. Minor soiling to half-title. Good Condition. -
The Normal Heart
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First Edition.
18.5cm x 12cm. [xii], 84 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Small rub to wrappers lower panel. Foxing to top edge. Minor tanning to wrappers verso and first and last few pages. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
The Ultimate Guide to Lesbian & Gay Film and Video
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First Edition.
20cm x 15cm. [viii], 389 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Soiling to top edge. Minor foxing to edges, wrappers verso, and first and last pages. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Gay Plays Volume Two
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First Edition.
21cm x 15cm. 126 pages. Lettered wrappers.
A collection of four plays: Quaint Honour by Roger Gellert; Bearclaw by Timothy Mason; Cracks by Martin Sherman; Lies About Vietnam by C. P. Taylor, selected and introduced by Michael Wilcox.
Minor general wear. Signature of Dr. Gary Simes. Very Good Condition. -
The Cobra
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First Edition.
21cm x 15cm. 32 pages. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Play of Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde. Includes 24 page programme booklet.
Some shelf wear. Very minor foxing. Very Good Condition. -
Gay Plays: Four
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. [ix], 144 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor foxing to wrappers. Signature of Dr. Gary Simes, in ink. Tanning to page extremities. Very Good Condition. -
Doric Wilson’s Street Theater: the Twenty-seventh of June, 1969, in two acts
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First Edition.
20cm x 13cm. 151 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor foxing to top edge. Signature of Dr. Gary Simes. Minor general wear. Very Good Condition. -
Homosexual Acts: A Volume of Gay Plays
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First Edition.
21cm x 15cm. ix, 142 pages. Wrappers.
Moderate general wear. Minor soiling to wrappers. Slightly cocked. Very minor bump to tail fore-edge corner. Signature of Dr. Gary Simes, in ink. Good Condition. -
If This Isn’t Love! (Two Men-Twenty Years-Three Acts)
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First Edition.
19cm x 13cm. 101, [2] pages + advertisements. Illustrated wrappers.
First edition of one of The Glines company’s longest running theatrical productions of two men who met in their teens and remain lovers into their forties. From the collection of Dr. Gary Simes, signature inside front cover.
Minor wear and soiling to cover. Minor foxing to edges. Good Condition. -
The Divas of Sheridan Square
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Artist’s Proof. Signed by Illustrator
21.5cm x 18cm. [24] pages, illustrations. Mimeo pressed unbound folded sheets.
Poems by J. Centola AKA Jimmy Camicia, founder of New York drag performance group, Hot Peaches, with illustrations by Ralph Hall. Published by Hall and his lover Flash Storm in 1975 and sold during a Hot Peaches musical production written by Camicia “[looking] at the disappointment experienced by drag queens and street people who had fought the inital battle for gay rights only to find themselves passed over, trod upon, and ignored by the progressive middle-class gays who took over the movement.” (from ‘My Dear, Sweet Self: A Hot Peach Life’, Jimmy Camicia) Largely based on events at and after Stonewall and Marsha P. Johnson, gay rights activist, founding member of the Gay Liberation Front, and Hot Peaches performer. Poems included in the collection are: The Divas of Sheridan Square, Fag Hag Whore, Alice, Space Queen, Change for a Dying Queen, Kroozin, Tax and Dues, The Revolution is Over, It’s Getting Tighter, and The Ballad of Gypsie Trash. This copy one of Hall’s prototypes, featuring a different cover variant to copies sold to the public. The interior is the same as the regular edition though printed on white paper of thicker stock, unbound, and bearing his signature to the contents page.
Minor shelf wear. Very minor soiling. Pen notation to the top right of the front cover. Near Fine Condition. -
Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: How Music Came Out
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First US Edition.
24cm x 16cm. xvii, 573 pages, illustrations, some colour. Black cloth, silver lettering, illustrated jacket.
“Popular music’s gay DNA is inarguable, from Elvis in eye shadow and Little Richard’s ‘Tutti Frutti’ to The Velvet Underground’s subversive rock’n’roll and Bowie’s ambisexual alien Ziggy Stardust; from kd lang’s female Elvis to Kurt Cobain in a dress; from Noughties lesbian icon Beth Ditto to Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ manifesto. But if collected essays and/or features have addressed gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender singers, songwriters, musicians and songs, no book has yet comprehensively and authoritatively drawn together all the threads to explore this as an unfolding, historical narrative: to tell the story of how music ‘came out’, from the days when homosexuals were deeply in the closet, but the love that once dared not speak its name sings it, and on daytime radio to boot. This story will reveal which songs have coded messages about sexuality, and which proudly declared the truth, including examples of heterosexual songwriters and singers who chose to address same-sex issues, from Rod Stewart’s ‘The Killing Of Georgie’ – the first UK number one with a gay theme – to Suede’s ‘Animal Nitrate’. The narrative will unfold against a backdrop of historic social and political shifts, as LGBT rights pushed for visibility and equality, from the closet of the Fifties to the struggle and setbacks of the Sixties, the liberation of the Seventies, the mainstream invasion and AIDS crisis of the Eighties, the advances of the Nineties and the more immersed scene of the Noughties. These artists have indeed changed the world as we know it. BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS OF HEARTACHE is a story for a wide audience, not just the LGBT community but a broad spectrum of music lovers who are fascinated by these characters, events, stories and songs. It is also a very timely tale, given the prominence of same-sex issues such as marriage equality, alongside the retrogressive steps in places such as Russia and parts of Africa, where songs encapsulating the gay/lesbian experience mirror those of the Sixties, signifying how the journey from illegality and bigotry to freedom is still far from over.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Lesbian / Gay / Queer Theatre & Performance
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First Edition.
20cm x 14cm. 227 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
A special focus issue of Australasian Drama Studies, October 1997. Interviews with Moira Finucane, Alex Harding, Barry Lowe, and Gail Kelly. Queer criticism of Shakespeare, Interpreting bodily functions in queer performance, Gay drama and theatre in Britain, and more.
Creasing and discolouration to spine. Minor soiling to wrappers and edges. Good Condition.