Please tell me this cover doesn't feature a bunch of Aryan men in jeans standing around a fountain shooting a highly suspicious white substance in the air...Oh, shit, you can't do that, can you? I'm all for gay erotica, but this picture is a little too much Socialist realism and a little too little Tom of Finland, if you get my drift.
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Cue the Violent Femmes:
"You're a flamingo, baby, you stand on one leg..."
Ha! I totally thought it said the "Flaming Anthology" at first.
This reminds me a little bit of the "freak gasoline fight accident" in Zoolander...
Except they all look like Dauber on Coach. God I'm old. Nowadays that guy is Patrick on SpongeBob.
Is this the look of theSMUT our children have access to in the public libraries?!?? Hideous air-brushed art deco?!!? They deserve to see far better-presented gay erotica than this!! I'm writing my Senator!!!
Absolutely right, DocTurtle. Just look: http://pandagon.net/2007/04/21/arkansas-dad-claims-his-sons-disturbed-by-lesbian-book-in-library/
Hee! I also thought it said "Flaming Anthology" which had me giggling like a schoolgirl. I want to know just what a "Flamingo Anthology" is. Are they all pink with backward knees?
So...obviously this cover was not designed by someone actually gay. Or with any amount of taste and dignity.
Well, okay then, you design a dignified cover for "The Flamingo Anthology of Gay Literature". Go on, I double-dog dare ya!
(Much respect to Alberto Manguel, though. "Black Water" is still my favorite fiction anthology of all time.)
It reminds me more of the Friends opening as re-imagined by Ayn Rand's little gay brother (I.M. Randy?) (I'm sorry)
The painting on the cover is by George Tooker, whose work appears on every anthology Manguel's name has appeared on. Black Water was a big deal to me when I first discovered it, until I came upon Borges and Casares own anthology and realized how much he had cribbed from that.
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