Titanic: Forbidden Stories Hollywood Forgot and Other Gay Canon Stories of Gay History, Queer Culture, Leather, Bearotica, and Gay Studies, with an Erotic Screenplay (Paperback)

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"...almost Proustian!" -- T. R. Witomski, Connection

"...enough ghettoized angst to keep the Manhattan literati wired for months." -- Aaron Travis/Steven Saylor, Drummer, San Francisco

"...the raw essence of...rough-and-tumble men...these...images..help redefine male beauty." -- William J. Mann, Lambda Book Report

"Fritscher writes with a blessed combination of erotic ingenuity and poetic intelligence...delightfully wry, ironic, sweaty, urgent!" -- Richard LaBont, In Touch Magazine

"Jack Fritscher is undoubtedly a masterful writer of gay fiction, but he is first and foremost an extraordinary American writer." -- Nancy Sundstrom, Independent Publisher Magazine

"Jack Fritscher...invented the South of Market prose style...and its magazines..." -- John F. Karr, The Bay Area Reporter

"Jack Fritscher...writes wonderful books." -- Geoff Mains, The Advocate

"Like Genet's work...a masculine version of true love...the best." -- Michael Bronski, Gay Community News

"Mythic...Comic...Graphically elegant style!" -- David Perry, The Advocate

Product Description

Fresh from Best Gay Erotica 1997 and 1998, as well as the millennial Best of the Best Erotica 2000, Jack Fritscher’s 4th collection of his fiction follows on the heels of the National Small Press Book Award to his 3rd collection, Rainbow County and 11 Other Stories. Titanic is a novella anchoring 11 very diverse and quite literate short stories whose erotic themes have proven reader-friendly in previous publication in a variety of gay magazines. Titanic is–at long last–the Forbidden Gay Love Story of the most erotic cruise in history, featuring the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the Stoker, the Purser, and the Lovers who....You will never forget this story ripped from the secret pages of a Titanic diary! --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing (January 10, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890834300
• ISBN-13: 978-1890834302
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #647,289 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So hot I almost went down with the ship!, April 18, 2001

By A Customer

It never occurred to me that gay people went down on the Titanic. But of course they did. Think of how gay an airplane or cruise ship is today. Why is the Titanic always considered a straight experience? This book makes the probable seem very real. Also the other stories in the collection are good--particularly the camp-like "I Married an Aquanymph" and the butch story of gaining muscular weight in the hot "Buzz Spaulding's Training Academy." The Hollywood theme keeps going in the porno screenplay of an actual video, "Buck's Bunkhouse." Also, I liked the dozen photographs in the book--for nights when I don't want to read as much as "look."

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Float This!, March 5, 2003

By	Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

"Love And Slumming." Okay, that about wraps this one up. Or how's about: "Now I know why handguns should be outlawed."

This is the fourth collection of Jack Fritscher's short stories, collected from three decades of sensual erotica. But perhaps this time, more than in any other of the collections, "Titanic" displays his razor sharp wit. The temptation to just list line after memorable line in this batch of stories is tough to resist.

Tied loosely together by a Hollywood concept, "Titanic" is also something else that many never expect from a collection of Fritscher's magazine work. There is very little leathersex involved here. Plenty of man on man horseplay, more than a few uncircumcised folks (the book could just as easily been subtitled Memories Of Headcheese) and lots of hypermasculine images, but the ropes and the dungeons are pretty much kept locked in the projection booth. That doesn't make the pieces any less wild, in fact, it enhances the craziness of a story like "CBGB 1977" and reminds you that the 70's in New York weren't all boogie nights at Studio 54.

Yes, the sex is fast and dirty, and often, funny. Funny in a way that suggests whimsy, which is pretty much a lost art in American humor, where a fart joke is easier to insert than a set up for a pattern of good belly laughs. To have a starlet so shamelessly exploit her he-she sexiness (in "Aqua-Nymph") will make many squirm in the fact that they're becoming more than a little female icon worshipping suckler, all while looking for Fritscher's usual cask of rough players. Think Bette Davis. Or even Cher. Not leather. Glitter. ...

OKAY! You want the nasty? Read "Buck's Bunkhouse Discipline: The Screenplay." (You thought no-one concerned themselves about porn film plotting!) "Three Bears In A Tub," which attempts to answer the question of how much sex can you fit into a single sentence. It's a gasping run-on of he-men in the wild for reel men in the big screen world. There's not a story here among "Titanic's" dozen that won't leave you with a 16cc smile. I'll indulge myself with one more Jack Fritscher quote to close this review: "Most people prefer masculine men...masculine in the best sense, not macho in the worst."

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Titanic sinking to the World Trade Center collapse, November 3, 2001

By A Customer

I was glad to search "disaster" and find this book, because the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center made me wonder about the human interest stories of all the lesbigay people in the Twin Towers. Then I read that it took 3.5 hours for the Titanic to sink and only 2.5 hours for the Twin Towers to collapse. Which all brought me to this book which tells the gay stories from Titanic. Not only informative, but imaginative and probably true, and certainly erotic, particularly the scenes with the sexy Stoker below decks. The story does not trivialize disaster, but rather makes you think about what being gay and being inside a tragedy is like. AIDS, of course, is a parallel subtext symbolically present in the Titanic sinking, just as HIV scares for gay people make the anthrax scares a bit simple by comparison. (At least for now.) I recommend this book particularly at this time that everyone is watching disaster on TV and maybe wants to read some escapist fiction around disaster--where some survive. Timely and hot.