Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex (2004)

San Francisco, California: Cleis Press (book, anthology, 1st, signed), 2004.
9" x 6" x 0.75", ~210 pages, softcover.

Starts with a quote from Burroughs, page ix. Multiple sections from Burroughs writing throughout the book.

Between pages 15 and 20 is a section from Queer (""Nobler, I thought, to die a man than live on, a sex monster...").

At page 31 is an excerpt from a letter from Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg, April 22, 1952 ("I don't mind being called queer...").

Norman Mailer discusses Burroughs' sexuality at page 33.

Between pages 71 and 74 is a section on "Bradley the Buyer" from The Naked Lunch.

At page 95 is an excerpt from a letter from Burroughs to Jack Kerouac, August 18, 1954 ("I find myself getting jealous of Kiki...").

Between pages 99 and 102 is a section on "A. J.'s Annual Party" from The Naked Lunch.

Brion Gysin writes of Burroughs at pages 103 to 105 from "Cut-ups: A Project for Disastrous Success".

Between pages 137 and 140 is Burroughs' "Sexual Conditioning", reprinted from The Adding Machine.

Between pages 159 and 160 is an excerpt from The Place of Dead Roads.

At pages 193 is a short section from an interview in Beat Writers at Work.

At page 201 is a quote on "The gay state" from Howard Brookner's film Burroughs: The Movie.

Other contributors include Allen Ginsberg, Hubert Huncke, Alan Ansen, Gore Vidal [oddly], Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Elise Cowen, John Giorno, John Wieners, Harold Norse, Peter Orlovsky, Jane Bowles, and Paul Bowles.

Acquired from Bolerium Books (San Francisco, CA.).

This copy is signed by the editor, Regina Marler.