AL LUJAN is a San Francisco-based visual artist, filmmaker, performer, writer, lover, bastard, liar and backup singer/mudslinger for the all-girl post-punk ranchera band “Las Cucas.” His writing has appeared in numerous anthologies, most recently Virgins, Guerillas and Locas edited by Jaime Cortez (Cleis Press), Too Sexy edited by Antonio Cuevas (North Atlantic Press), Besame Mucho edited by Jaime Manrique (Painted Leaf); and Best American Erotica edited by Susie Bright (Simon & Schuster). His first film, S&M in the Hood was picked up for distribution by Frameline. He recently received the Nuevo Potrero grant to complete his upcoming film Corn in the Front Yard. He also has performed at Highways, the late Josie’s Cabaret, Somar, Theatre Rhinoceros, BRAVA, Glaxa, Build, Intersection for the Arts and the Mission Cultural Center. He founded Latin Hustle, a queer Latino comedy troupe, in 1997 with Lito Sandoval and Jaime Cortez, which received a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity grant to mount its first show Full Frontal Nudity, at Theatre Rhinoceros.
SCOTT O’HARA remains rentable at your local video store in about two dozen skinflicks; he also founded and for three years edited Steam (A Literary Queer’s Guide to Sex and Controversy) and edited the anthology Stallions and Other Studs. His erotic fiction was published in 1996 by Masquerade/Badboy Books in Do-It-Yourself Piston Polishing (For Non-Mechanics); essays and memoirs appeared in Autopornography: A Life in the Fast Lane (Harrington Park Press, 1997) and Rarely Pure & Never Simple (Harrington Park Press, 1999). He died in 1998.
IAN PHILIPS is an unassuming abomination who lives in San Francisco. This story along with other pieces of literate filth he’s penned appear in a first collection of short stories titled See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Queer in the Head, due in the fall of 2000. He can be reached at [email protected].
ANDY QUAN’s first piece of published smut was “Six Positions,” written in London, England. It appeared in Quickies and Best Gay Erotica 1999. New erotica has since appeared in Quickies 2, Best Gay Erotica 2000 and Carnal Nation: Writing Sex in New Canadian Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press). Less spicy writing credits include Gay Fiction at the Millennium (Alyson) and Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America (Temple University). He is the co-editor of Swallowing Clouds, an Anthology of Chinese Canadian Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press). Currently working as the international policy officer for the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, Quan was born in Canada of Cantonese origins. He is a singer-songwriter, poet and voyager, currently landed in Sydney.
CAROL QUEEN has a doctorate in sexology, which she uses to impart more realistic detail to her smut. She is the author of The Leather Daddy and the Femme (from which “Ganged” is excerpted), Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, Exhibitionism for the Shy, and co-editor of Best Bisexual Erotica, PoMoSexuals, Switch Hitters, and Sex Spoken Here. She lives in San Francisco (where else?); come visit at www.carolqueen.com.
KIRK READ grew up in Virginia, where he was the editor at Our Own Community Press in Virginia. His writing has appeared in over seventy-five LGBT publications around the world, including Philadelphia Gay News, Washington Blade, Frontiers, QSF, and Lambda Book Report. His work appeared in the anthology A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry and can be seen at www.temenos.net/kirkread. As a volunteer, he is on the organizing collective of the Gay Men’s Health Summit, helps with a weekly homeless feeding in the Castro, and is an intake counselor at the St. James Infirmary, a free health care clinic for sex workers. He can be reached at [email protected]
PAUL REED is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novels Facing It and Longing and the memoirs Q Journal and Savage Gardens. His work has appeared in The Advocate, The San Francisco Chronicle, Honcho and Drummer, and his short fiction has been anthologized many times, including in the Best American Erotica 1995 and in Noirotica 2, where “We Own the Night” first appeared. He lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel.
MATTHEW RETTENMUND, a magazine editor living in Manhattan, is author of the novels Boy Culture and Blind Items: A Love Story, plus the nonfiction books Totally Awesome 80s and Encyclopedia Madonnica.
MICHAEL ROWE, born in Ottawa, Canada and raised in Beirut, Havana and Geneva, is an award-winning journalist and essayist, author of the critically-acclaimed Writing Below the Belt, and co-editor of two Lambda Literary Award-nominated anthologies, Sons of Darkness and Brothers of the Night. His journalism has appeared in The National Post, The Globe & Mail, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, The Body Politic and Torso, among others, and he was founding senior writer for FAB National, where he was a finalist in 1997 for a Canadian National Magazine Award. Some of his essays and journalism are collected in Looking for Brothers (Mosaic Press, 1999). He can be reached at [email protected].
D. TRAVERS SCOTT is the author of Execution, Texas: 1987, editor of Strategic Sex: Why They Won’t Keep It in the Bedroom, and had a blast as guest judge for Best Gay Erotica 2000. Trav currently lives in Seattle.
LAWRENCE SCHIMEL is a full-time author and anthologist, who’s published over forty books, including Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (with Carol Queen; Cleis Press), The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, The Drag Queen of Elfland, Boy Meets Boy, Food for Life and Other Dish (Cleis Press), and PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (with Carol Queen; Cleis Press), which won a Lambda Literary Award.
SIMON SHEPPARD is the co-editor, with M. Christian, of Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex and Power. His work appears in dozens of anthologies, including four editions of Best Gay Erotica and two of Best American Erotica. His collection Hotter Than Hell & Other Stories will be published by Alyson Books in 2001. And his column, “Sex Talk” appears in queer publications and on Websites nationwide. He just loves writing about dick.
DON SHEWEY has published three books about theatre and written articles for the New York Times, Village Voice, Esquire, Rolling Stone and other publications. His essays have been reprinted in such anthologies as Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism and The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica. He grew up in a trailer park on a dirt road in Waco, Texas and now lives in midtown Manhattan.
JOHN TUNUI is a co-founder of Tatau, a writing group of Polynesians in San Francisco, and a member of UTOPIA (www.polyutopia.com), which is a social group for Queer Polynesians from around California. He lives with the love of his life, Kiwi, in the Castro.
EMANUEL XAVIER got his start in Best Gay Erotica 1997. He is now author of the poetry collection, Pier Queen, and the Lambda Literary Award-nominated novel, Christ-Like, featuring the character of Mikey X, who first made his debut in the short story, “Motherfuckers.” Winner of the Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award, his work has also been published in Men on Men 7, James White Review, Virgins, Guerillas and Locas, and Urban Latino Magazine.
About the Editor
RICHARD LABONTE has worked with A Different Light Bookstore since its founding in 1979 in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. He is general manager of its stores in New York, West Hollywood and San Francisco, where he lives with his plant-growing picture-painting dog-walking lamp-building partner Asa Liles, and Asa’s dog Percy. Both are very protective of him, fending off the world so he has plenty of time to read—and not just erotica. He writes on gay books for the Feminist Bookstore News, has a regular column for Q San Francisco, and is an occasional contributor to The Lambda Book Report. He also writes about gay books and bookstores for PlanetOut, adlbooks.com, and contentville.com. He can be reached at [email protected].
Copyright © 2000 by Richard Labonté.
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The following stories are reprinted from Best Gay Erotica 1996: “Stroke the Fire” © 1995 by M. Christia
n. “First Shave” © 1995 by Jameson Currier. “The Yellow” © 1994 by Michael Lassell. “Ganged” © 1994 by Carol Queen is excerpted from The Leather Daddy and the Femme (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998). “Pleasingly” © 1995 by Matthew Rettenmund. “The Adored One” © 1995 by Michael Rowe. “Aegis” © 1995 by D. Travers Scott. “Hotter Than Hell” © 1995 by Simon Sheppard. The following stories are reprinted from Best Gay Erotica 1997: “Tricktych” ©1996 by Pansy Bradshaw. “Steel Gray” ©1996 by Ken Butler. “Cocksucker’s Tango” ©1996 by Justin Chin. “The First Branding Journal” © 1996 by Cornelius Conboy. “Heat Wave” © 1996 by Kevin Killian. “Griffith Park Elegy” © 1996 by Al Lujan. “Social Relations” © 1996 by Scott O’Hara, re-printed with permission of Pansy Bradshaw. “Motherfuckers” © 1996 by Emanuel Xavier. The following stories are reprinted from Best Gay Erotica 1998: “I Wonder If My Great Great Toltec Grandmother Was Ever a National Geographic Centerfold” © 1998 by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas. “Sexual Harrassment in the Military: 2 Performance Pieces for 4 Actors in 3 Lovely Costumes” © 1998 by Jack Fritscher. “We Own the Night” © 1997 by Paul Reed. “Clothes Do Make the Man” © 1997 by Lawrence Schimel. “Liberty” © 1998 by John Tunui. The following stories are reprinted from Best Gay Erotica 1999: “Body Hunger” © 1998 by Grigorakis Daskalogrigorakis. “Six Positions” © 1998 by Andy Quan. “See Dick Decontruct” © 1998 by Ian Philips. “Yellow” © 1998 by Kirk Read. The following stories are reprinted from Best Gay Erotica 2000: “Thomas, South Carolina” © 1999 by Dimitri Apessos. “The Nether Eye Opens” © 1999 by Don Shewey.
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