Gay public bar story

With an introduction by Blanche M. Baker, M. But then, Gay Bar was not written to be a best seller. His extensive research and brief asides remind us that all was not calm before the storm of gay civil rights—that the 50s were more of a clandestine cloud-seeding. As we know now, World War II helped numerous gay men and women discover themselves.

Kinsey who, Fellows tells us, eventually met and interviewed Helen Branson also said that gay men were everywhere, which turned out to be more frightening than illuminating. Add to this restless stew a splash of Communist paranoia, and soon ruined careers, families, relationships and suicides followed. Note to Hollywood: Someone should jump on this book.

Perhaps Liam Neeson could reprise Kinsey for a cameo—or maybe omnipresent homophile James Franco could give it a whirl? That would be a howl. Branson University of Wisconsin Press Hardcover,pp.

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