Guide to the Gordon Martin Papers,
circa 1960-1985

Collection Number: 7305

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
P. McCray
Date completed:
November 1991
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, May 2003
Sarah Keen, March 2008

© 2008 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Gordon Martin papers, circa 1960-1985.
Collection Number:
7305
Creator:
Gordon Martin
Quantity:
5.3 cubic feet
Forms of Material:
Short stories, films, videotapes, and publicity materials.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
The collection consists of material of a homoerotic nature assembled by Gordon Martin, and includes typescripts and photocopies of erotic/pornographic short prose fictions; catalogs and brochures of mail order enterprises; and erotic and pornographic films.
Language:
Collection material in English


COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The collection consists of material of a homoerotic nature assembled by Gordon Martin, and includes typescripts and photocopies of erotic/pornographic short prose fictions, a few of which are illustrated with drawings or photographs; catalogs and brochures of mail order enterprises dealing in erotica and pornography; and erotic and pornographic films.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Martin, Gordon.

Subjects:
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Homosexuality and literature.
Erotica.
Pornography.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Gordon Martin papers, #7305. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection

CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Short Stories
Untitled
Box 1 Folder 1
Untitled
Box 1 Folder 2
Two Weeks in the Country; Diary of a Photographer; A Martian Serendipity; Tony
Box 1 Folder 3
The City; The Moon Chute
Box 1 Folder 4
The 007 of Yetun-Vey; First Leave
Box 1 Folder 5
Case Histories
Box 1 Folder 6
Case Histories
Box 1 Folder 7
Case Histories; The Seven Eyes of Captain Dark
Box 1 Folder 8
Home from the Navy; The Night That Satan Blushed; Tale for a Rainy Night; Two Boys and a Teacher
Box 1 Folder 9
Garden Party; He Asked For It; The Boy in the Second Balcony
Box 1 Folder 10
Suburbia; John, Sweet Sixteen; After Hours in a Bar-bell Studio; Prep School; The Sailor Came
Box 1 Folder 11
Suburbia
Box 1 Folder 12
One August Afternoon; Suburbia
Box 1 Folder 13
The Escape; The Night That Satan Blushed
Box 1 Folder 14
Robin Stark
Box 1 Folder 15
A Martian Serendipity; Robin Stark
Box 1 Folder 16
Summer Camp; Begin and End as a Man; Two Weeks in the Country; Adam and Adam; A Jaunt with Angels
Box 1 Folder 17
Untitled; That Hot August Day; Bulldozer; Inez; Bunny Love; Change of Heart
Box 1 Folder 18
Robin Stark
Box 1 Folder 19
Army and Navy
Box 1 Folder 20
Army vs. Navy
Box 1 Folder 21
Johnny and "Plunger"; Black Leather; Home from the Hill
Box 1 Folder 22
No Drums, No Trumpets
Box 1 Folder 23
Week-end Guests; Behind the Green Door; 1875: A Northwest Frontier Outpost in India; After Hours in a Bar-bell Studio; Window Cleaning
Box 1 Folder 24
The Teenagers and Sex; Oh, Brother!; Untitled (from the Medical Quarterly); Week-end Guests
Box 1 Folder 25
Untitled; Home from the Navy Untitled
Box 1 Folder 26
Angelo; Johnny and "Plunger"; Tale for a Rainy Night; Unexpected Guests
Box 1 Folder 27
First You Take a Live Goat; The Van Scoons; A Little Something for You; Mike; Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?; Tropic of Crabs; Franky Hill, or the Memoirs of a Boy of Pleasure; I Was a Homosexual for the FBI; The Collector; Fifteen Dollar Misunderstanding; Poems by Bill Bolecky
Box 1 Folder 28
The Motorcycle Boys; Bail Out
Box 1 Folder 29
Quest
Box 1 Folder 30
Slaves of Old Barbary
Box 1 Folder 31
Bud; Still Water; The Porthole; Point of No Return; Wichita
Box 1 Folder 32
Prep School Heaven
Box 1 Folder 33
Banged Up Butts; Runaway Sex; Super Service
Box 1 Folder 34
Prep School Heaven
Box 1 Folder 35
Al and Larry; Mid, A Summer's Night Interlude-Vol.II;
Box 1 Folder 36
The Green Door; Five Hundred Dollars; The Green Door; Monday Night
Box 1 Folder 37
Possible Possums
Box 1 Folder 38
The Sound of Cotton
Box 1 Folder 39
The Seven Eyes of Captain Dark; The Escape; Arcturian; Dick
Box 1 Folder 40
The Thing; Charlie Reeves
Box 1 Folder 41
Motel Madness; Trio; Sailors Off Watch; The Thing
Box 1 Folder 42
Army and Navy
Box 2 Folder 1-2
Untitled poem attributed to Auden; bill jones; Track Meet; Far Away; The Grove
Box 2 Folder 3
The Dude Rancher
Box 2 Folder 4-5
The Constant Heart
Box 2 Folder 6-7
The Sound of Cotton
Box 2 Folder 8-9
The New Apollo, volume II
Box 2 Folder 10
The New Apollo, volume I
Box 2 Folder 11
The Metamorphosis of Hiram Potter
Box 2 Folder 12
Slaves of Old Barbary
Box 2 Folder 13
You Too?; But the Heart...; Absent Thee From Felicity; A-Feudin' and A-Fightin'; The Gathering Years; One Thing I Can't Stand; Free Spirit; Sleep Walker; You Do or You Don't; Whatever We Know; Quest; Before I Die; I Do Not Know
Box 2 Folder 14
Quest
Box 2 Folder 15
A Western Fantasy
Box 2 Folder 16-17
A Tale of Two Cities, Today
Box 2 Folder 18-19
Tale for a Rainy Night
Box 2 Folder 20
Dick; Settling In Is Always Hard
Box 2 Folder 21
Prep School Heaven
Box 2 Folder 22
Selected sonnets and poems; The Jewel in the Stone; And Four to Go; Accident; Seize the Day; But the Heart...; You Do or You Don't; Sum and Substance; You Too?; The Everlasting Arm; The Coming of Abner Smith to Big Lonesome; Doubtful Thomas; Where E'er I Walk
Box 2 Folder 23
A Jaunt with Angels
Box 2 Folder 24
The City
Box 2 Folder 25
Bail Out
Box 2 Folder 26
Adam and Adam; Oh, Brother!; Untitled
Box 2 Folder 27
Far Away
Box 2 Folder 28-29
Possible Possums
Box 2 Folder 30-31
Film and videotape catalogs and advertising materials
Box 2 Folder 32-43
Film and videotape catalogs and advertising materials
Box 3-4
Motion picture films
Box 5-6
Videotapes (copies of films for researcher use)
"The Brothers"
Videotape Number: V-73
"Black Cop" and "Black Adonis"
Videotape Number: V-75
"Ramcharger 1"
Videotape Number: V-77
"Ramcharger 2/1"
Videotape Number: V-79