Public-domain archive · 1881
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain
by Jack Saul
An exceptionally early English-language work centered on sex between men, framed as the recollections of a Victorian rent boy.
Why it belongs here
It is useful as a historical artifact: unusually direct about male same-sex desire for its period, and far less coded than most surviving queer fiction of the nineteenth century.
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