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Winston Leyland

Author of Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists Vol. 1

112+ Works 1,800 Members 18 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the names: W Leyland, Winston Leyland, Publication Leyland, Ed. Winston Leyland, Publications Leyland, Editor Winston Leyland, Edited: Winston Leyland, Winston edited by LEYLAND, and various. Leyland Winston (Ed.)

Image credit: Winston Leyland. Photo from Matt & Andrej Koymasky.

Series

Works by Winston Leyland

Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists Vol. 1 (1997) — Editor — 122 copies
Meatmen Volume 1 (1996) — Editor — 106 copies, 1 review
Gay Roots : Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine : An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics, and Culture (1991) — Editor — 90 copies, 2 reviews
My Deep Dark Pain Is Love: A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction (1983) — Editor — 73 copies, 1 review
Gay Sunshine Interviews. Vol. 1 (1978) — Editor — 66 copies, 3 reviews
Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists Vol. 2 (2000) — Editor — 63 copies
Out in the Castro: Desire, Promise, Activism (2001) 61 copies
Now the Volcano (1979) — Editor — 59 copies
Gay Sunshine Interviews. Vol. 2 (1982) — Editor — 53 copies
Meatmen Volume 2 (1996) 49 copies
Gay Roots: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics and Culture, Vol. 2 (1993) — Editor — 48 copies
Meatmen Volume 11 (1991) 47 copies
Angels of the Lyre: A Gay Poetry Anthology (1975) — Editor; Contributor; Contributor — 43 copies, 1 review
Meatmen Volume 25 (2002) 38 copies
Orgasms of light: The Gay sunshine anthology : poetry, short fiction, graphics (1977) — Editor — 37 copies
Meatmen Volume 12 (1991) 35 copies
Meatmen Volume 3 (1994) 35 copies
Meat: True Homosexual Experiences from S.T.H. Writers Volume 1 (1994) 32 copies
Meatmen Volume 26 (2004) 31 copies
Meatmen Volume 17 (1995) 31 copies
Meatmen Volume 22 (1998) 30 copies
Gay Sunshine Journal: Anthology of Fiction/ Poetry/Prose No. 47 (1982) — Editor — 30 copies, 1 review
Meatmen Volume 13 (1994) 29 copies
Meatmen Volume 21 (1997) 28 copies
Meatmen Volume 16 (1995) 28 copies
Meatmen Volume 7 (1990) 26 copies
Meatmen Volume 6 (1989) 26 copies
Meatmen Volume 10 (1991) 25 copies
Meatmen Volume 23 (1999) 24 copies
Meatmen Volume 5 (1989) 24 copies
Meatmen Volume 24 (2000) 24 copies
Meatmen Volume 4 (1988) 23 copies
Meatmen Volume 18 (1996) 21 copies
Meatmen Volume 14 (1993) 20 copies
Meatmen Volume 19 (1996) 20 copies
Meatmen Volume 15 (1994) 20 copies
Hot Acts: Homosexual Encounters from First Hand Volume 1 (1984) 17 copies, 1 review
Lust: True Gay Encounters Volume 1 (1985) 17 copies, 1 review
Physique (1982) 17 copies
Orgasms: Homosexual Encounters from First Hand Volume 2 (1994) 16 copies, 1 review
Meatmen Volume 20 (1997) 15 copies
Boys Will Be Boys: True Gay Encounters Volume 9 (1990) 15 copies
Flesh:True Homosexual Experiences from S.T.H. Volume 2 (1997) 14 copies
Cut/Uncut: True Gay Experiences of Foreskin & Circumcision Volume 1 (1985) 12 copies
Hot Studs: Homosexual Encounters From First Hand Volume 3 (1994) 12 copies, 1 review
Ten and a 1/2 Inches: True Gay Encounter Series Volume 6 (1993) 11 copies
Hard: True Gay Encounters Volume 2 (1986) 10 copies
Humongous: True Gay Encounters Volume 5 (1994) 10 copies
Meatmen Volume 9 (1994) 10 copies
Singlehanded: True Homosexual Encounters from First Hand Volume 4 (1993) 10 copies
Enlisted Meat: True Homosexual Military Stories Volume 1 (1991) 10 copies
Manplay: True Gay Encounters Volume 3 (1993) 9 copies
Marine Biology (True Homosexual Military Stories, Vol. 4) (1994) 9 copies
Studflesh: True Gay Encounters Volume 8 (1993) 8 copies
Warriors and Lovers: True Homosexual Military Stories Volume 2 (1992) 8 copies
Young Numbers: True Gay Encounter Series Volume 4 (1987) 6 copies
Basic Training: True Homosexual Military Stories Volume 5 (1995) 6 copies
Macho Marines: True Homosexual Military Stories Volume 6 (1998) — Editor — 6 copies
Consules de Sodoma (1982) 5 copies
When I Was 18 and Other Homosexual Encounters from First Hand, Volume 5 (1988) 5 copies
Eighteen and over: True Gay Encounters Volume 10 (1991) 5 copies
Boys, Boys, Boys: True Gay Encounter Series Volume 7 (1993) 5 copies
Gay sunshine 4 copies
Military Sex: True Homosexual Stories Volume 3 (1993) 3 copies
Gay Sunshine (Issue #33-34) "Interview Tennessee Williams" 2 copies
Gay Sunshine, Nov. 1970. 2 copies
Cónsules de Sodoma: Volumen 1, Entrevistas de "Gay Sunshine" a Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Cristopher Isherwoodd, Roger Peyrefitte, Ned Rorem, Tennessee Williams (1982) 2 copies
Gay Sunshine (Issue #36-37) "Interview Robert Peters" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #20) "Gerard Malanga: An Interview" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #8) "Gay Brothers & Sisters Unite! Free Ourselves - Smash Sexism" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #46) "'The Cult of the Refined Apollo: Walter Pater's Renaissance and Imaginary Portraits' by Robert Peters" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #15) "Ralph Schaffer: Movement Martyr" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #44-45) "10th Anniversary Issue" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issues 29-30) "Russia's Gay History and Literature" - "New Allen Ginsberg Poems" - "Sex in a Mexican Bathhouse" - "Interview with Edward Roditi" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #6) "Women's Liberation Is Our Liberation" 1 copy
GSP: Gay Sunshine Press Catalogue 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #2) "The Bars" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #5) "The Cockettes: Vatican Rag at Grace Cathedral" - "Essay on Sex by Edward Field" - "The Raid of The Stud in San Francisco" - "A Guide to Beating the Draft" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #25) "Interviews: Taylor Mead and Peter Orlovsky" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue Number One) 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #4) "Jock Lib, Gay Lib, Any Difference?" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #10) "Gay Sunshine Speaks!" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #28) "Interviews With Elaine Noble - Jonathan Williams & Tom Meyer" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #38/39) "Special Issue: Gay Brazil" - "Boy Love in the Far East" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #31) "Interview Mutsuo Takahashi" - "Stefan George Circle" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #42-43) "Interview Roger Peyrefitte" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #9) "Police Entrapment. Cont. (and Cont. and Cont.)" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #17) "John Wieners: An Interview" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #13) "Free Gay Prisoners" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #26-27) "Latin American Issue" 1 copy
Gay sunshine journal : anthology of fiction/poetry/prose 1 copy
Queer Dharma 1 copy
Cónsules de Sodoma II (Spanish Edition) (1983) 1 copy
HARD : True Gay Encounters, Volume 2. 1 copy, 1 review
Gay Roots Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine : An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics and Culture 1 copy, 1 review
Gay Roots : An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics & Culture. Volume 2 1 copy, 1 review
Gay Roots : An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics and Culture. Volume 2 1 copy, 1 review
Cut / Uncut : True Gay Experiences of Foreskin and Circumcision. Volume 1 1 copy, 1 review
Sexualidade & criação literária. As entrevistas do Gay Sunshine 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #23) "Interviews with Lou Harrison & John Rechy" - "A Gay Male Critique of Prairie Fire" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #14) "We Are All Fugitives" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #16) "Allen Ginsberg: An Interview & Poem" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #18) "Harold Norse Interview" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #35) "Jean Genet Interview" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #40/41) "Interview: Robert Duncan" - "'Chicken': A Book of Uranian Poetry by Dennis Kelly" - "Progress of a Faggot Father" - "Prison Sex at 16" - "'Myths &… 1 copy
Gay Sunshine Press (Issue #7) "The Forgotten Ones: Gays in Prison" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #24) "John Giorno: The Poet in New York" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #32) "Arab Civilization and Male Love" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #12) "Gay Death at Vacaville Prison" 1 copy
Gay Sunshine (Issue #19) "Christopher Isherwood: An Interview" 1 copy
Cónsules de Sodoma : Volumen 2, entrevistas de "Gay Sunshine" a William Burroughs, Jean Genet, Lou Harrison, John Rechy, Gore Vidal. (1983) 1 copy
Gay Sunshine Journal, No. 47, anthology of fiction/ poetry/ prose 1 copy
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Associated Works

Teleny (1893) — Editor, some editions — 525 copies, 9 reviews
Straight hearts' delight : love poems and selected letters, 1947-1980 (1980) — Editor — 44 copies
Meatmen Volume 8 (1995) — Editor, some editions — 27 copies
A Lou Harrison Reader (SC) (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate
1940
Gender
male

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18 reviews
QAHC_CCCL173 reviews
Gay Roots : Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine : An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics, and Culture by Winston Leyland
Five books in one, with section on Gay History, Gay Sex & Politics, Gay Biography & Literary Essays, Gay Fiction and Gay Poetry - Gay Roots is intended for every gay person desiring to reclaim a rich cultural tradition.
Sep 3, 20091 other review
JohnSherlock575 reviews
My Deep Dark Pain Is Love : A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction by Winston Leyland
Translations of Spanish and Portuguese gay fiction from Latin American countries.

Limited hardbound edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is copy "X".
Signed by editor, Winston Leyland
May 17, 2026
TonySandel160 reviews
Gay Sunshine Journal: Anthology of Fiction/ Poetry/Prose No. 47 by Winston Leyland
Contains the story Costa Brava by Frits Bernard. An orphaned Spanish boy is rescued by a Venezuelan.
Nov 17, 2008
JohnSherlock575 reviews
Angels of the Lyre : A Gay Poetry Anthology by Winston Leyland
hardback book (no dust-jacket - none issued) Two copies

One of the copies is inscribed "For Anthony Reid this rare edition of ANGELS (one of 10 Special copies) With best wishes from Winston Leyland, SF. Cal. 20/4/77. Also signed by Winston Leyland (the editor of the book) on the back page of the book. This copy formerly owned by gay book collector Anthony Reid, now detached but loosely inserted in the book.
May 17, 2026
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Awards

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Lambda Literary Award
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E. A. Lacey Translator, Contributor
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Peter A. Jackson Contributor
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Tom Moon Contributor
John R. Killacky Contributor
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Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche Contributor
Margaret Childs Translator
Dennis Conkin Contributor
Jeffrey Hopkins Contributor
Richard Ronan Contributor
Christian Huygen Contributor
Charles Koren Baker Contributor
David Chura Contributor
Myo Lahey Contributor
Clint Seiter Contributor
Larry L. Saxxon Contributor
Leonard Zwilling Contributor
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Burton Clarke Contributor
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Raul Pompéia Contributor
Aníbal Machado Contributor
Jorge G. Maier Illustrator
Vicente Echerri Contributor
Glauco Mattoso Contributor
Carlos Correas Contributor
Néstor Perlongher Contributor
Luis Zapata Contributor
Jorge Marchant Lazcano Contributor
Paulo Hecker Filho Contributor
Lucio Ginarte Contributor
Alexandre Ribondi Contributor
Carlos Arcidiácono Contributor
Luiz Canabrava Contributor
Raimundo Magalhães, Jr. Contributor
Jorge Domingos Contributor
Peros Bairaktaris Cover designer
Dalton Trevisan Contributor
Rubem Fonseca Contributor
Reinaldo Arenas Contributor
Manuel Puig Contributor
Mário de Andrade Contributor
Miroel Silveira Contributor
William S. Burroughs Interviewee
Peter Orlovsky Interviewee
Gore Vidal Interviewee
Lou Harrison Interviewee
John Rechy Interviewee
Christopher Isherwood Interviewee
Jean Genet Interviewee
Tennessee Williams Interviewee
Franklin D Blanton Translator
Valery Pereleshin Contributor
Ernesto Banuelos Enriquez Contributor
Franklin Jorge Contributor
Erskine Lane Translator
Jaime Jaromillo Escobar Contributor
Porfirio Barba Jacob Contributor
Aguinaldo Silva Contributor
Jaime Manrique Ardila Contributor
Adolfo Caminha Contributor
Simon Karlinsky Translator
Salvador Novo Contributor
Xavier Villaurrutia Contributor
Luis Cernuda Contributor
Joao Silverio Trevisan Contributor
Edilberto Coutinho Contributor
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Taylor Mead Contributor
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Statistics

Works
112
Also by
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Members
1,800
Popularity
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Rating
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Reviews
18
ISBNs
76
Languages
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