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PROJECT: Compilation of Gay literary works

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vanrozenheim:

--- Quote from: "Rain" ---I modestly propose a compilation of gay literary works spanning the breadth of written history.  Nothing exhaustive , but a random sampling throughout the ages.
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Picking up this suggestion, we shall gather the Gay literary works in this thread. The intention is to compile all sorts of Gay literature which you think is valuable for historic or literary reasons.

Rules:

1) Please post the author, the title, and iformation about where the work can be found (ISBN, website address), copyright status.
2) Texts can be posted directly to this thread (in chapters, if it's very large). Otherwise please send good scans or photocopies to the Foundations address).
3) After the submission, the piece in question will be taken into the list and its text will be diditalized.
4) For a better overview, the "processed" posts will be subsequently moved to archive.
5) Textes in languages other than English may be also suggested, however, some translation arrangements would be helpfull.

Something more? Just say.  :wink:

List A: Copyright-free texts:

1. Pu Sung Ling: "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" [translation by John Minford], EXTRACT (ISBN-10: 0140447407; ISBN-13: 978-0140447408);
2.
3.

List B: Copyrighted texts:

1. James Baldwin: "Giovanni's Room", EXTRACT (to pe specified) (ISBN13: 9780141186351, ISBN10: 0141186356), [Rain];
2. Emanuel Xavier:  POETRY, (to pe specified), [Rain];
3.
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5.

N.B.: A literary work is generally copyright-free, when its author is dead for more than 70 years.

Rain:
Ah...and now, Van...what if the author is NOT dead?  Who handles the thorny issue getting permission to print?

Rain:
Oh and the dedication should read:

"This book is dedicated to the memory of Ronald W. Reagan, whose singular lack of compassion brought an entire culture to its knees and a whole generation to an early grave.  May history never repeat itself."

Rain:
Also...I think I'll get in touch with Manny (Emanuel) Xavier re: permission to include something of his.  Stay tuned.

vanrozenheim:

--- Quote from: "Rain" ---Ah...and now, Van...what if the author is NOT dead?  Who handles the thorny issue getting permission to print?
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Well, we should first ask politely for a non-exclusive copyright, possibly he/she will agree. If not, we put the piece in question into queue. Those works which can't be published by us, can be taken into a bibliography list.

For a good beginning, it would be good to know what textes are generally desired to be included. Then we should try to get the missing permissions by the authors.

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