Simon Sheppard (writer)
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Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
of gay erotica
Erotica
Erotica are works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing descriptions...
and a sex-advice
Advice column
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columnist from San Francisco. He is the author
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of many highly acclaimed works of gay erotica/pornography
Pornography
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, including the books Sodomy!, Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion, In Deep, and Sex Parties 101. He is also the editor of Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica, winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT erotica; the anthology Leathermen; and is the coeditor of the anthologies Rough Stuff and Roughed Up. Sheppard's work is wide-ranging, often combining history, philosophy, or culture — high and low — with hardcore sex. His first book, Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories, won the Erotic Authors Association Award for Best Collection of the Year, and the title story of In Deep was shortlisted for the Rauxa Prize for Erotic Fiction. His work has appeared in over 300 anthologies and he writes the columns “Notes of a Cranky Old Fag” for CarnalNation.com and the online serial "The Dirty Boys Club” for OutPersonals, and for years wrote the column "Sex Talk." He also co-hosts, with Carol Queen, the performance series Perverts Put Out! Sheppard is openly
Coming out
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gay, active in the queer art
Art
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istic, political
Politics
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and AIDS-activist
AIDS
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communities, and has publicly opposed the Iraq war
2003 invasion of Iraq
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. He lives in San Francisco, where San Francisco
San Francisco (magazine)
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dubbed him “our erotica king.”