![]() ![]() ‘The Countess Arrives’ is from his first published novel, The Affairs of Gloria 1964, in which the lesbian romance occasioned a landmark federal obscenity trial resulting in greater, not fewer, opportunities for gay and lesbian writers. ![]() ![]() ‘It doesn’t matter what the question is, Alex, the answer is always love.’ Like his contemporaries, Ann Bannon and Marijane Meaker, many of Victor’s early novels featured lesbian themes. Gay and lesbian love, young and old love, innocent and ribald love, and love won, lost, and sought for in vain. It’s unique as well in the breadth and variety of the material presented, ranging from the mysticism of ‘The Emerald Mountain’ a metaphysical gay mystery, which may be an entirely new genre to the pathos of ‘The Girls’ from the gothic horror of ‘In Passing’ to the whimsy of ‘An Apple a Day’ from the humor of ‘The Story of God as History’s First Trannie’ a satirical look at ancient Goddess worship to a chilling glimpse of a future world ruled by religious hypocrisy in ‘Jesus Days,’ an excerpt from the novel Angel Land, to be published in 2007 by Regal Crest. Banis’s Come This Way is a unique collection spanning nearly a half century of a prodigious literary outpouring that includes 150 published books and scores of shorter works. ![]() Charms, Spells, and Curses for the Millions (2007). ![]()
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