Pulp, Patricia Kane’s sexy homage to the sultry, jazzy world of 1950’s lesbian pulp fiction, runs today through Oct. 15 at the BCA Black Box Theatre (539 Tremont St., Boston. 617-933-8600).

“Pulp,” set in 1956, follows a blunt military woman named Terry Logan (“I’m a lesbian, plain and simple. I don’t make any bones about it”) on a visit to a women’s bar called The Well.

Kane added music – jazzy songs from the period, plus some originals written in the same style, performed by an all-women cast in “drag-king” manner.

It’s campy fun, but Kane said there’s more to it.

“I discovered this pulp fiction was an important part of lesbian history,” she said. “Though the pulps were written with more straight guys in mind, they were used as a lifeline for a lot of lesbians during a very repressive time.

“But those novels often ended with these women paying for their predilection in some sort of way, either being ostracized or committing suicide. I offer a revisionist ending. I want these women to be happy.”

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