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In stock (as of this writing):
Nina by Blag Dahlia
Androphilia: A Manifesto by Jack Malebranche
The Satanic Scriptures by Peter H. Gilmore
Stephen Kasner: Works 1993-2006

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We’re moving all of our online sales over to Reptilian Records Online! It’s a lot easier for us, plus there’s a bunch of other great stuff on there that you can (and should) buy! Music, Books, Magazines, more! We’re still uploading products to that site as well, so excuse our dust, as they say.

Altercation Magazine’s new issue (#20) features an interview with Blag Dahlia and review of our book NINA!
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The United States Post office is raising postage prices again, and we will have to adjust our shipping costs on all of our books to reflect that. Starting around May 10th, expect to see the postage-paid price go up for both domestic and international orders.

(Get your order in quick if you don’t want to pay more)

After three decades of it, I might not be ready to start “rejecting the gay identity” but “reclaiming masculinity” is something I have been engaged in for a long time. So Jack Malebranche’s “Androphilia” is a welcome voice. When he noted, just for starters, the pervasive infections of “anti-male feminism, victimist mentality and left-wing politics” in the gay mainstream, he had my attention. And kept it. Although Androphilia is a manifesto, it is well-written, accessible and yet richly packed with content that you can return to and mull over after first reading. I have.

An image of my own that supports his take on the Orwellian strangeness of current gay identity/culture: A transgender man who asserts, “Just because I don’t have the `right’ equipment doesn’t mean I’m less a man”, will be praised and defended. An ordinary gay male who asserts, “Just because I’m a Republican doesn’t mean I’m less gay”, will be booed and booted out.

Malebranche has a strong point: contemporary gayness is a pre-packaged ideology and lifestyle often at odds with the natural masculine identity of its own population, and pressure to buy the whole thing is very intense. Deviance, ironically, is not well tolerated.

The primary slur against homosexual men is that we are not men at all, but something less, something like faux-females. Malebranche underestimates the deep contempt many men still have for one of their own who, how shall I put it, kneels or bends over. One defense against this is for us to identify with the slur and defiantly transform it into a mark of pride. This is how the cross, the ancient analogue of our noose or chair, became a religious symbol of victory. The same inversion with the pink triangle.

So, many gay men embrace the feminine that they are accused of aping. And in its defiance, it is a masculine act. But far too often, it is an unintegrated and adolescent, even pathological, femininity. And it remains perpetually stuck in defiance mode, becoming a pose or a cartoon, retarding their maturation as men. Rather than refuting the slur, they sadly prove its point. It is not necessary. It is painful to see. And it is not rare. And it is very rarely challenged from within the gay world.

Although I may differ with Malebranche on the depth of the feminizing stigma, or his reflections on desire as preference vs orientation, or his regrettable but minor decision to use Andrew Sullivan’s bogus “Christianist” lingo -and I am glad that he minimized his old notion of fetish–, I stand with him solidly and gratefully on his central androphile point, true for all men, but especially now for us men who love and desire other men. To paraphrase, “Manhood is not the problem, it is the solution”.

We’re posting this to support one of our favorite artists, who had two paintings stolen from his show in Prague.

A reward of $10,000 is being offered for information leading to the recovery of these two world famous HR Giger paintings. They were last seen during the artist’s 2005 retrospective at the National Technical Museum of Prague. Each painting measures 34 x 34 cm. without the frame. Despite claims to the contraryby the organizers of the exhibition, PP Productions of Prague, the paintings were NOT returned to HR Giger after the closing of the show on August 31, 2005. It is believed they are still in the Czech Republic. A reward of $5,000 for each painting, plus an all expenses paid weekend at the HR Giger Museum, Chateau St. Germain, in Gruyeres, Switzerland will be awarded to the individual supplying the information leading to their successful recovery.

It seems folks have been having problems with PayPal on our site. The links should be working at this time. If you have any problems with the wesbite, or any questions, please e-mail us at info@scapegoatpublishing.com

RETRACTION: A note about a “release event” on Walpurgisnacht was mistakenly left on the “Satanic Scriptures” page when it was put up. There is no Scapegoat release party for the event in Baltimore.

We’re no longer static! Our blog-like site will be updated regularly with news and notices concerning our production of books and the goings on of our authors and artists.

We’re taking preorders for ANDROPHILIA.