Hank O'Neal's "Gay Day" (2006)

New York City: Abrams Image (book, monograph, photobook), 2006.
8.25" x 10.75" x 0.625",160 pages, pictorial hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 0-8109-5508-3.

Gay Day: The Golden Age of the Christopher Street Parade, a photobook by Hank O'Neal as published by Abrams Image (New York City) in 2006. Images are hand-captioned by Allen Ginsberg. Essay by Neil Miller. Designed by Edward Miller. Production managed by Kaija Markoe.

William S. Burroughs supplies the preface to this book, written when the project started in 1984 but not published until this edition in 2006.

A photo of Allen Ginsberg with William S. Burroughs is at page 10.

A photo of a parade attendee holding a large [Avedon] picture of William S. Burroughs is on pages 154-155, with Allen Ginsberg's writing noting "Effigy of William Burroughs (preceding that of Andre Gide) carried by a strapping lad like a martial banner on the 20th Century Gay Parade past the site of Stonewall Tavern".

Shoaf II.468.

Contents: 

• William S. Burroughs: Preface
• Hank O'Neal: Introduction
• Allen Ginsberg: photograph of himself and William S. Burroughs.
• Hank O'Neal: Gay Day:
• 1974:
• "Eagle Angels with slave collars..."
• "Looking like cute highway patrolmen..."
• "Get Her!..."
• "What pretty wives!..."
• "Blacks are most truthful..."
• "Everybody's in my hair!"
• "I wanna girl..."
• "Judy Garland's got big-veined fists..."
• "A big crowd of boys & girls & matrons..."
• "Rolling up his sleeves to get to work..."
• "Let the straight flower bespeak..."
• "Out of the Anvil's basement..."
• "Resolute parents that have gone through the mill..."
• "Motorcycle gays with black balloons."
• 1977:
• "According to Barbelo-Gnostic theory..."
• "So I turned to the left..."
• "Well I'll take 2 of these..."
• "A man of the cloth..."
• "The one combing his hair..."
• "Young meat Catholics..."
• "When's the last time anybody kissed you on the belly, really gently?"
• "One more beer..."
• "Wait a minute!..."
• "I'm the guy that throws pies..."
• "Do you think that little boy..."
• "Look at that funny kid praying..."
• "Cops with personal mustaches..."
• "Now if you'll only listen to me..."
• "Everyone's expecting an orgy..."
• "We're safe! The World is full of fairies! Let's have a baby."
• "Oh it's just too sweaty..."
• "Anita O'Day is still singing."
• "That's alright honey..."
• "I'll bet Anita had affairs..."
• "The lonely standard bearer..."
• "Aren't you hot in your angry leather?..."
• "His hair on his belly..."
• "Flash Gordon & his wife..."
• "His hair's got the same light..."
• "Good tight dress..."
• "Well I'll carry my wig box..."
• "Casting a shadow on the speckled walk..."
• "See anyone there..."
• "Those guys on the wall watching..."
• "Judy got older..."
  
• "What a pleasant conversation..."
• "Shoes sox watches..."
• "Drinking, smoking, with covered behinds..."
• "You mean all that hair & teeth is gay?"
• "Don't they look like tender kids..."
• "Alone in the garbage dump..."
• "If I keep dressing up like this..."
• "I deserve a cute boy's kiss..."
• "Come all over the sky, look up!"
• "Two guys with chains..."
• "Gay guys sit talk listen..."
• "Gazing off in the distance..."
• "Insouciant prudence..."
• "A spy from the moon..."
• "Guys at the union..."
• "Now you realize he'll just love you..."
• "The oldest lovers in the universe..."
• "You don't deserve it..."
• "Hey pay attention..."
• "Beauties hanging around..."
• "The most beautiful faggot..."
• "Let's stagger home..."
• 1978:
• "I know that my redeemer liveth."
• "Whose bold kiss?..."
• "Miss Rollerina..."
• "That pyramid-shadow..."
• 1979:
• "Nubian mama"
• "Does Cosa Nostra still own..."
• "Young & handsome..."
• "Tired, handsome, a little drunk..."
• "I'm so happy!..."
• "Catholic boy with nicotine addiction..."
• "The wind of love..."
• "Well whaddya think honey?..."
• "We have a right to be wounded!"
• "I, Allen Ginsberg, like to be spanked myself."
• "Awright you straight cops!..."
• "That heroic blonde snubnosed kid..."
• "The guy in the right looks like my dad..."
• "The thin guy bent over signing..."
• "It's true! Jehovah's like N.K.V.D...."
• "Black white brown boy girl or whatever..."
• "They did the whole Appalachian Trail..."
• "The blind have many loves."
• "I can take it in the tit."
• "What a pretty worker!...."
• "O Lord! Dios!..."
• "Highstepping in his shell beads"
• "Do you think the City Planning Commission calculated..."
• "Actually she's a floating truth cloud..."
• "Yessir that's my baby..."
• "I wonder if Ronald Reagan knew..."
• "Clark Gable & Nero on a date..."
• "We all look pretty normal..."
• "Harvey Milk died for your sins."
• 1981:
• "Yes he opened his cloak..."
• "How can a beautiful woman like that..."
• "Painted ribs & cheekbones..."
• "Stepping on his dwarf shadow..."
• "They've been meeting in secret..."
• "Hand in hand..."
• "You & me & her & him..."
• "Eleanor Roosevelt, Willa Cather..."
• "Yes we're at home..."
• "Masculine & Feminine Sopranos!..."
• "But ain't I worth a dollar too..."
• "Fishing for bellybuttons, anyone?"
• "We are from Stonewall..."
• "Look at her!..."
• "You think I'm cute enough to...?"
• "Maybe my legs are too fat..."
• "Does the Police Athletic Association..."
• 1983:
• "Miss American Flag..."
• "Pants down to his pubis..."
• "Phila mummers..."
• "Effigy of William Burroughs..."
• Neil Miller: Afterword