History Literature / TheManFromCAMP

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

* ''The C.A.M.P. Cookbook'' ([[RuleOfThree I am not making any of this up!]]) (1968)

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

After these being out of print for a very long time, anthology collections are starting to come out--hooray!

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

* AgentPeacock

* BiggusDickus: Rich.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass

* {{Gayngster}}: A lot of the antagonists are this.
* HiddenDepths: Both the series and Jackie.

* StupidSexyFlanders

* CastFullOfGay: Jackie makes sure of that.
** 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 [[{{Asexuality}} asexual people]] have sex and sometimes enjoy it regardless of their lack of sexual attraction.

* {{Transgender}}: Rosarita Beech.

* PhoneBooth: Jackie has tried to get changed in and out of his old man disguise in ''Holiday Gay'', but lampshaded as a disgusted and frightened woman noticed.
--> ''That was the difference, he thought ruefully, between real-life crime fighters and the comic book heroes in the comic books they were never interrupted while they changed clothes in phone booths.''

* BadassGay: Probably one of the first examples in fiction.

* NobodyOver50IsGay: Avoided: Banis himself is a gay man and writes the gay scene very realistically. Yes, there are older people and less attractive people.

* {{Transsexual}}: Rosarita Beech.

** Though it's in name only concerning Dingo Stark, he physically resembles "[[Music/MickJagger Mick Jagger]]" more.

** Though it's only in name only concerning Dingo Stark, he physically resembles "[[Music/MickJagger Mick Jagger]]" more.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: 'Dean James' and 'Shelley Tipple'.

* ShoePhone: A tracking chip disguised as a thumb nail, another disguised as a homing device, a cigarette case disguised as a camera, a drug that can knock out an elephant for hours within a fake pinkie nail, artificial ass skin that contains two parts of a throwing dagger and a garrotte (protected by compressed foam rubber), two teeth that are really containers of explosive chemicals (designed to be pulled out first of course), a briefcase with a complete sending and receiving radio kit, [[Main/Blowgun a blowgun disguised as a cigarette holder]], sunglasses that can see the shoeprints of shoes designed to track collaborating agents of other agencies, artificial armpit skin to hide explosive capsules, shoes with compartments for some of the aforementioned gadgets and at one point a radio.

* ShoePhone: A tracking chip disguised as a thumb nail, another disguised as a homing device, a cigarette case disguised as a camera, a drug that can knock out an elephant for hours within a fake pinkie nail, artificial ass skin that contains two parts of a throwing dagger and a garrotte (protected by compressed foam rubber), two teeth that are really containers of explosive chemicals (designed to be pulled out first of course), a briefcase with a complete sending and receiving radio kit, a blowgun disguised as a cigarette holder, sunglasses that can see the shoeprints of shoes designed to track collaborating agents of other agencies, artificial armpit skin to hide explosive capsules, shoes with compartments for some of the aforementioned gadgets and at one point a radio.