This seven-book series follows one argument from its historical origins to its practical conclusion: homosexual people should not be persecuted, criminalised, tortured, imprisoned or killed for consensual same-sex intimacy.
The books can be read individually, but together they move from the forgotten lives of persecuted gay people, through the machinery that still harms them, towards a campaign for worldwide abolition.
Book One: On the Mutilation and Murder of Angels
History remembers prosecutions. This novel tries to remember the boys.
Guided by nineteenth-century gay-rights pioneer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Damian Jay Clay travels through historical cases in which boys and young men are condemned, tortured and killed because of homosexual desire. Part historical fiction, part meditation on memory, the book asks what it means to bear witness when the archive preserves victims principally through the machinery that destroyed them.
Book Two: On the Secret Dogmatic Rites of Angel Killers
The first book asks what happened.
The second asks why it is still happening.
Moving into the modern world, this novel uses fictional and composite young lives placed inside documented systems of contemporary persecution. Law, religion, medicine, family and political power converge around gay children and teenagers, revealing how ordinary institutions learn to describe cruelty as protection.
Book Three: Coming for Our Children: Who Hates Gay People Now, and Why
Criminalisation does not stop at the prison gate.
This nonfiction volume examines the wider social machinery created by anti-gay law: blackmail, family coercion, forced marriage, homelessness, medical abuse, police corruption, exile, employment loss and fear. It asks not merely who persecutes gay people, but why – and how law gives other people permission and leverage to join in.
Book Four: DIV STATES
These are the Kidnap and Cage States.
Country by country, this volume examines governments that still arrest, prosecute, censor, intimidate and imprison LGBT people. It separates rhetoric from enforceable law and asks one practical question: what can the state legally do to an LGBT person today?
We also look at several countries which have recently abrogated their anti-gay laws and examine what it takes to get that done.
Book Five: Double Div States
Some governments do not stop at the cage.
This volume examines states where anti-LGBT criminalisation reaches the body through whipping, torture, forced examinations, sexual violence and other forms of physical punishment. It follows the point at which law becomes bodily cruelty.
Book Six: Bender Butcher States
This is the final evidentiary book.
It examines the most extreme machinery: death sentences, executions, stoning, hanging, firing squads, militia rule, child persecution, sexualised state violence and systems capable of killing LGBT people. Its purpose is simple: to end the alibi of ignorance.
Book Seven: The Gay Nuke
The evidence is complete.
Now comes the fight.
The Gay Nuke asks how the world moves from sixty-seven criminalising jurisdictions to zero. At its centre is the weapon itself: the weapon that will enable us to end the worldwide criminalisation of homosexuality.
The final goal is not punishment.
It is abolition.
No more prisons. No more whippings. No more rapes. No more executions.
Sixty-seven to zero.