In this hilariously perverse collection of essays, celebrated British writer and satirists Mark Simpson takes a wittily warped look at a fin de siecle world of pop culture where nothing is as straight -- or as gay -- as it seems.Along the way, Simpson goes in search of straight sex in London's Soho, interviews Oscar Wilde and discovers that he's perplexed by all those rumors about his private life and would like to set the record straight; gets trashed with some U.S. Marines in Tijuana and discusses with them the cultural significance of foreskins. And watches a groom being buggered by lesbian strippers at his stag night party.

It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)

Mark Simpson

Literature & Fiction

Routledge

There is no other contemporary artist who is so famously difficult, so apparently enigmatic, and so passionately, religiously loved by his fans as Morrissey.However, as Mark Simpson argues in his wickedly funny and deeply sacrilegious portrait, Morrissey isn’t quite so enigmatic as he might at first appear. To understand this most private and sexually ambivalent of stars and his seemingly erratic behavior, one needs only to do one thing: Listen to him.At once devil’s advocate and -counsel for canonization, Mark Simpson offers the finest psychological profile to date of England’s most intelligent, most misunderstood, most charming and most alarming pop star.

Saint Morrissey

SAF Publishing

Harrington Park Press

A chance letter speaks off a transatlantic literary romance between two writers, one British, one American, in which they share their unhealthy and unfashionable passions for military men, cruising and cats.

The Queen is Dead : A Story of Jarheads, Eggheads, Serial Killers and Bad Sex

Simpson, Mark

Zeeland, Steven

Steven Zeeland

Arcadia Books Ltd

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