Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest with Jimmy Cooper and Lyn Corelle

The Unseen Book Club

Make the Golf a Public Sex Forest is an eponymously themed and self-published anthology of queer smut curated and edited by Jimmy Cooper and Lyn Corelle. In summer 2021, an anonymous manifesto declared war on the Hiawatha Golf Course in Minneapolis, enrolling regional queer history to catalyze a reclamation of autonomous public spaces: Places to be used for encounter, exploration and eros. The stories, poems and essays in this anthology were written in response to the manifesto.

We talk to Jimmy and Lyn about the collection and how its many authors interpreted the call for submissions. The book is a constellation of steaming hot, down and dirty, genuinely freaky erotica, studies of sex in nature//nature as sex, critiques of the political horizons of sex, queer scene reports, and more. We talk about sexual utopias, transcending our own thresholds of desire, and the thrills of imagining our unknown pleasures.

Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest is available to purchase!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sex_forest
Theresa Sweetheart is on Bandcamp, Instagram, and many other platforms!
Jimmy Cooper is on Twitter, Instagram and elsewhere.
Lyn Corelle is on Twitter, Instagram, and their visual work is online.

Stewart Van Cleve’s Land of 10,000 Loves: A History Queer Minnesota is mentioned in the episode.

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