"My name is Brut Toro . . . I am neither brutish . . . nor . . . am I Spanish."
"I am . . . wild and passionate and strange. . . ."
"'Dany!' I cried . . . 'I only want one thing -- your happiness.' . . . 'Oh, my little Bru!' he gasped. . . ."
"He turned my naked body to face his, sweeping me into his arms again. . . ."
"We groped for each other . . . wracking us past all thoughts of control."
"We were hid, . . . safe even from the accusing eyes of God. . . ."
". . . loving with an intensity which threatened to drive us mad."
My Purple Winter by American author and illustrator Carl Corley (1921-2016) is a "French Line" gay erotic novel published in San Diego by Publishers Export Company in 1966. The novel is a rural farm romance about young Brut Toro who falls in love with a Creole farmhand on his father's property. When the father discovers their tryst, he sends Brut to New Orleans to live his uncle, who really is a brute. But Brut escapes and finds himself on the streets hustling for a living.
A native of rural Mississippi, Corley pioneered the Southern gay novel. His work, as LGBTQ+ historian John Howard observes, "complicates queer cultural studies by unsettling its urbanist roots." From 1947 to 1981, Corley worked as a staff artist for the Mississippi State Highway Department and after moving to Louisiana, also for the Louisiana Highway Department. He also drew a Cajun-themed comic strip for the Eunice (LA) News. At the same time, he also produced homoerotic illustrations for beefcake magazines. From 1966 to 1971, Corley published over 20 erotic gay pulps, illustrating the covers himself, including the goofy camp cover for My Purple Winter, which is considered his best novel.
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