History Literature / TheManFromCAMP

* BuryYourGays: Subverted. The series was specifically created to subvert the 'sad-boys-doomed-to-tragedy' (in Banis' words) of the time, by having the protagonist be an openly proud gay badass who always lives at the end. There have been a few deaths of gay characters, but specifically because of the dangerous situations they were in rather than anything to do with their sexuality.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Rockstar Dingo Stark is either bisexual or has internalised homophobia.

* CampGay: ''Duh''. Though, admittedly, Jackie exaggerates this persona to make people assume he's harmless when he's far from it.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Whenever someone first meets Jackie, they always assume he's too light-hearted and effeminate to take anything seriously or be competent at his job. But he proves time and time again he can take his missions and duty seriously, and do a damn good job at it. In other words, he's actually a [[Main/BadassGay badass]].

Jackie Holmes is a swishy, wealthy gay man living in UsefulNotes/{{California}} in the mid-1960s. He is also a vintage car mechanic, an expert on diamonds, an expert marksman, a martial artist master, and a spy. Specifically, he's employed full-time by a clandestine organization known as C.A.M.P., dedicated to the protection and advancement of homosexuals everywhere. With the help of his burly assistant Rich and whatever poor sorry straight INTERPOL stuck him with, Jackie foils thieves and crime rings, flounces around and is generally fabulous, and always manages to seduce his partner in the end.

The ''C.A.M.P.'' books are notable mostly for being among the first queer novels published before Stonewall, but they're pretty fun inf their own right too, despite being written in a few days each, and some of the prose being kind of rough.

** Jerry Shannon from ''The Son Goes Down'' is implied to be an exception, because of his attraction towards women and lack of attraction towards men. Jackie just opened his eyes to the fact that he now also happens to like male-on-male sex and a person's sexual orientation is more based on sexual attraction than the type of sex they like. It is factually correct [[Main/RealLife in Real Life]] and perhaps even a notion ahead of its time. For example, some [[Main/Asexuality asexual people]] have sex and sometimes enjoy it regardless of their lack of sexual attraction.

* CastFullOfGay

* CampGay: ''Duh''.

* AuthorTract: There are weird {{Anvilicious}} moments of GayAesop scattered throughout, where two of the gay cast (pick two, any two) will drop what they're doing and wish airily for a world in which their love is accepted.

Jackie Holmes is a swishy, wealthy gay man living in UsefulNotes/{{California}} in the mid-1960s. He is also a Bugatti mechanic, an expert on diamonds, an expert marksman, and a spy. Specifically, he's employed full-time by a clandestine organization known as C.A.M.P., dedicated to the protection and advancement of homosexuals everywhere. With the help of his burly assistant Rich and whatever poor sorry straight INTERPOL stuck him with, Jackie foils thieves and crime rings, flounces around and is generally fabulous, and always manages to seduce his partner in the end.

Jackie Holmes is a swishy, wealthy gay man living in California in the 1960s. He is also a Bugatti mechanic, an expert on diamonds, an expert marksman, and a spy. Specifically, he's employed full-time by a clandestine organization known as C.A.M.P., dedicated to the protection and advancement of homosexuals everywhere. With the help of his burly assistant Rich and whatever poor sorry straight INTERPOL stuck him with, Jackie foils thieves and crime rings, flounces around and is generally fabulous, and always manages to seduce his partner in the end.

* ''The Man from C.A.M.P.''
* ''Color Him Gay''
* ''The Watercress File''
* ''The Son Goes Down''
* ''Gothic Gaye''
* ''Holiday Gay''
* ''Rally Round the Fag''
* ''The Gay Dogs''
* ''Blow the Man Down''
* ''Sex and the Single Gay'', a self-help book ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer no, really]])
* ''The C.A.M.P. Guide to Astrology'' (no, ''really'')
* ''The C.A.M.P. Cookbook'' ([[RuleOfThree I am not making any of this up!]])
* ''Gay-Safe'' (not by Banis)
* "Jackie Returns", a short story

* ''Sex and the Single Gay'', a self-help book ( [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer no, really]])

* StraightGay: The INTERPOL agent who acts as a C.A.M.P. liason, Lou Upton, might be one of these.

* ''Sex and the Single Gay'', a self-help book ( [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimerno, really]])

* ''Sex and the Single Gay'', a self-help book (no, really)

* ''The C.A.M.P. Cookbook'' (I am not making any of this up!)

By and large considered to be notable mostly inasmuch as being one of the first queer novels published before Stonewall, but they're pretty fun of their own right too, despite being written in a few days each, and some of the prose being kind of rough.

!!''The Man from C.A.M.P.'' provides examples of:

* WeaponOfChoice: Jackie's jeweled derringer. "Small and deadly...like me."

* DragQueen[=/=]WholesomeCrossdresser: Somehow, Jackie seems to always end up in drag.

* HilariousInHindsight: John Holmes, the ludicrously well-hung porn star, became a phenomenon ''after'' these books.

* DragQueen: Somehow, Jackie seems to always end up in drag.

One of the first gay pulp fiction series, an AffectionateParody of JamesBond and TheManFromUNCLE written by Victor J. Banis under the pseudonym of Don Holliday, shortly before Stonewall.

* NotSoHarmless: Jackie is ridiculously dressed and can swish like the best of them. All the better to hide his hypercompetency.
** Extending the metaphor: the at-the-time burgeoning gay rights movement is implied to be this.