Published in the 1960s by Golden Boy Books and credited to Chad Stuart, Flight Into Sodomy belongs to the high-drama, pre-liberation strain of gay pulp fiction that thrived under censorship and moral panic. The title alone did the work it needed to do—provocative enough to pass as scandal, coded enough to reach the readers who recognized themselves between the lines.
Gay pulp novels of this era often adopted the language of transgression—“flight,” “danger,” “fall”—to justify their existence on bookstore racks. Publishers leaned into sensationalism while writers used familiar tropes to sketch hidden social worlds: bars, hotels, chance encounters, and the quiet tension of living double lives. Readers learned to read past the lurid framing and find recognition, desire, and community where they could.
