Mae West is dead : recent lesbian and gay fiction / edited by Adam Mars-Jones.

Introduction: Gay fiction and the reading public / Adam Mars-Jones -- How to engage in courting rituals 1950s butch-style in the bar / Merril Mushroom -- Welcome / Simon Burt -- Annie / Rebecca Brown -- Some of these days / James Purdy -- Idyll / Anne Leaton -- Finding out / David Cook -- Barney / John Bowen -- Daddy / Jan Clausen -- A perfectly nice man / Jane Rule -- Floral street / Simon Burt -- Passing / Aileen La Tourette -- The cutting room / Sandy Boucher -- Two bartenders, a butcher and me / Daniel Curzon -- Cass, 1959: first day of a courtship / Merril Mushroom -- Victor / Daniel Curzon -- The loveliness of the long-distance runner / Sara Maitland -- Cupiditas / Aileen La Tourette -- The day I don't remember / Jane Rule -- First communion / Joseph Torchia -- The prisoner of love / Richard Hall -- Phantom limb pain / Barbara Ellen Wilson -- The book lover / Peter Hazeldine.