Banis's first published work was a short story, "Broken Record," that appeared in the Swiss gay publication Der Kreis in 1963.Banis, Victor J. Spine Intact, Some Creases, edited by Fabio Cleto. Genova, Italy: ECIG 2004, pages 26, 117-118. His first long work of fiction was The Affairs of Gloria, a heterosexual romance with a few lesbian scenes inspired by the recent
