Simon Sheppard (1948 – February 12, 2021) was a writer of
gay erotica and a
sex-advice columnist from San Francisco. He is the author of many books of gay sex writing, including ''Man on Man: The Best of Simon Sheppard'', ''Sodomy!'', ''Jockboys,'' ''Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion,'' ''In Deep'', and ''Sex Parties 101''. He was 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, and culture — high and low — with
hardcore sex
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. 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 also appeared in over 300 anthologies and magazines, including many editions of ''Best Gay Erotica'' and ''The Best American Erotica''. He wrote the syndicated column "Sex Talk," and the online columns "Perv" and "Notes of a Cranky Old Fag." The online serial "The Dirty Boys' Club," which he wrote for OutPersonals, was published as a novel in 2012.
He also co-curated and co-hosted, with
Carol Queen and Lori Selke, the San Francisco performance series Perverts Put Out! founded by publisher Bill Brent. Sheppard was
openly gay and kinky,
and was active in the queer artistic, political and
AIDS-activist communities. With his husband William, he lived for years in San Francisco, where ''
San Francisco'' magazine dubbed him "our erotica king."
Sheppard died of kidney cancer on February 12, 2021, aged 72 in San Francisco, California.
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External links
Official website
1948 births
2021 deaths
American advice columnists
American erotica writers
Gay male erotica
American gay writers
Lambda Literary Award winners
Writers from New York City
Deaths from cancer in California
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