The marriage in 1830 of Jean, baron de Brussac, and rebellious young Anne de Grenville inaugurates a saga of three generations whose search for love and power leads from the French countryside, across the American West, to the wine country of California

This splendid earth

Banis, Victor J.

Literature & Fiction

St.Martin's Press

A bawdy love story set on the Texas plains. Longhorns ranges from hard riding action and sex as hot as the blazing Texas sun to lyrical descriptions of the Old West.

Longhorns

United States

Running Press

"Most outstanding of the gay novels read this month," said California Scene. "An amusing and entertaining story told in the first person by Paul, an ex-Gay trying desperately to go straight. In fact, he's a couple of weeks away from marrying the boss's daughter when the saga opens...until Paul's former lover, Lorin, suddenly appears. This might seem trouble enough--but Lorin has been dead for the past five years!"  Borgo Press is pleased to represent a true classic of gay literature, now available again for the first time in four decades.

The Gay Haunt

Contemporary

Borgo Press

THE GREEK BOY  The year is 1955. Spiro Dimopolous is his name, an eighteen-year-old Adonis fresh off the boat from Greece. Spiro's mother had been an American, and now that's she ill, the lad's been dispatched to his cousins at Rawley's Landing, Kentucky, to make his way in the Brave New World of America. There he encounters crusty old Uncle Winston Rawley, patriarch of the clan, and Leticia, trying to hold together the family farm, and Branston "Bran" Rawley, the handsome young scion of the next generation. Together they'll try to educate the young man in the down-home ways of the rural South. But Spiro has a few things of his own to teach his relatives, as they soon find out!

The Greek Boy

Literary

Wildside Press

Roger needed Lenny, or thought he did. . .but he did not need Zak or Marty, or the way Lenny acted under their influence. And he definitely did not need to have them move in which him. But Roger's needs and wants were no longer on Lenny's mind. He had another agenda: taking Roger for all he was worth. And he didn't particularly care what he had to do to get his hands on the family jewels!  A classic novel of gay life.

Stranger at the Door

Erotica

A legendary name from the Golden Age of Paperbacks, VICTOR J. BANIS spins a witty and exuberant tale of A Thousand and One Knights, flitting blithely from tale to tail, in one era and out the other. Part autobiography, part a history of the Gay Revolution, part writing manual, part juicy gossip, with a few tasty recipes thrown in for good measure, Spine Intact, Some Creases is a summing up -- alternately hilarious and touching, instructive and impassioned, and always entertaining -- of the remarkable life and work of a writer hailed by top gay pulp historian Michael Bronski as "one of my heroes." "Banis' memoir provides a poignant history of West Coast paperback publishing in the Sixties, and one author's journey from small beginnings to critical and financial success as a writer -- but it's far more than that: witty, elegantly written, funny, sad, smart, and even wise. Every penman-apprentice should read this book -- twice!" -- Robert Reginald.

Spine Intact, Some Creases

History & Criticism

That debonair Man from C.A.M.P., Jackie Holmes, is back once more! This time the crusader for gay justice is thrown into the most fracturingly funny escapade of his career, being joined by an unbelievably incompetent household of characters, who go by the code name of WATERCRESS, and who insist on helping him with his (barely) dangerous mission. And in process we encounter the antics of such individuals as the straightlaced CIA agent, Craig Mathews, Aunt Lily, Aunt Nasturtia, Aunt Marigold, Honeysuckle the pianist, the gigantic Gladiola, and the very strange Nick. Of course, Jackie always winds up on top in the end. Sounds like business as usual for this ever-C.A.M.P.-ish series! First publication in 45 years.

The WATERCRESS File

Humor & Satire

Roger needed Lenny, or thought he did, but he did not need Zak or Marty, or the way Lenny acted under their influence. And he definitely did not need to have them move in with him. But Roger's needs and wants were no longer on Lenny's mind. He had another agenda: taking Roger for all he was worth. And he didn't particularly care what he had to do to get his hands on the family jewels! A classic novel of gay life.

CLASSIC GAY STORIES The Second Tijuana Bible Reader and its prequel have attained legendary status among collectors of gay literature. Edited anonymously by Victor J. Banis, these two books included pieces by Banis himself and his friends, all published by Greenleaf Classics in 1969 without any bylines. The original volumes are now nearly impossible to find. The Borgo Press is proud to present the first new editions of these seminal works of homoerotica in almost forty years!

The Second Tijuana Bible Reader

Resourceful as James Bond, flamboyant as Austin Powers, and gay as a Christmas goose, there’s never been a secret agent quite like Jackie Holmes, the Man from C.A.M.P. 
Writing under a series of noms de plume, Victor J. Banis played a primary role in creating a new genre: gay pulp fiction. Southern Tier Editions and Fabio Cleto, one of the true authorities on the camp phenomenon, are proud to bring back three tongue-in-cheek novellas—and a revealing interview with the author—together in one volume. These fast-paced stories, written and set in the swinging sixties and unavailable for over three decades, will introduce a new generation of readers to the fabulous adventures of gay superspy Jackie Holmes, the Man from C.A.M.P. Armed with a cache of secret weapons, a body that just won’t quit, and a white poodle called Sophie who’s trained to kill with her razor-sharp teeth, the blonde bombshell with a license to thrill known as Jackie Holmes will blow you away! 
Espionage! Danger! International Intrigue! And Hot Gay Sex! 
In The Man from C.A.M.P., Jackie must use his skills as a world-class expert in gemology, expert marksman, Bugatti mechanic, and irresistible sexpot to stop a gay diamond counterfeiting ring whose illicit activities could ruin the diamond industry and destabilize the world economy! Saddled with a loveable, yet straight-as-an-arrow G-man for a partner, Jackie must use all of his expertise—both in espionage and in steamy man-to-man sexuality—to put the culprits out of action. 
In Holiday Gay, the Man from C.A.M.P. comes for Christmas! In this erotically charged adventure, Jackie Holmes takes on his arch-nemesis Birdie Wing (a villain as sinister and colorful as any from the Batman television series) and his fiendish gang of gay midget outlaws, the Swallows. Add a cadre of sinister Santas and dozens of missing jewels to the mix and you’ve got a plot that can only be unraveled by the Man from C.A.M.P. 
Finally, The Son Goes Down finds Jackie balls-deep in international intrigue, investigating a bizarre kidnapping ring that takes him from L.A. to Tijuana and on to Lisbon. Scrumptious, blonde American boys are being abducted, force-fed an aphrodisiac potion, and put to work as sexual servants in overseas brothels. It’s up to the Man from C.A.M.P.—the secret organization dedicated to the protection of and advancement of homosexuals everywhere—to set things right. He’ll need all of his wiles, training, and irresistible sex appeal to close this case, but as always, he’ll do his best to get his man in the end. 
Readers interested in the camp phenomenon, or simply hankering for a good detective story, will do well to bring home the amazing adventures of the Man from C.A.M.P. Jackie Holmes is one of the most remarkable characters in fiction and the humor, eroticism, and out-and-out cleverness of author Victor Banis has never been more sorely needed.

That Man from C.A.M.P: Rebel Without a Pause

Cleto, Fabio

Harrington Park Pr

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This splendid earth

Longhorns

The Gay Haunt

The Greek Boy

Stranger at the Door

Spine Intact, Some Creases

The WATERCRESS File

Stranger at the Door

The Second Tijuana Bible Reader

That Man from C.A.M.P: Rebel Without a Pause