Sam Slovick On the Homophobia that Threatened Slake's Second Issue
Yesterday, Fishbowl LA reported that the upcoming issue of Slake had been delayed by two to three weeks because various printers across the United States refused to publish the book–citing “explicit material” from Sam Slovick’s story “Tommy Crow,” which contains one line depicting gay sex.
This is the line in question:
“We sit in silence in the backseat for an hour before he spits in my hand, rubs it on my dick and slides it in his ass.”
The printers had no objections to several graphic descriptions of heterosexual sex in the book.
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