By Will Fellows
ISBN-10: 029924850X
ISBN-13: 9780299248505
ISBN-10: 0299248534
ISBN-13: 9780299248536
Vivacious, unconventional, candid, and directly, Helen Branson operated a homosexual bar in l. a. within the 1950s—America’s such a lot anti-gay decade. After years of warding off drunken passes as an entertainer in cocktail bars, this divorced grandmother most well liked the wit, kind, and enjoyable she discovered between gay males. having fun with their companionship and deploring their plight, she gave her homosexual acquaintances a spot to socialise. even though on the time California statutes prohibited homosexuals from amassing in bars, Helen’s position used to be comfy, artful, and remarkably secure from police raids and different anti-homosexual dangers. In 1957 she released her amazing memoir homosexual Bar, the 1st e-book by way of a heterosexual to depict the lives of homosexuals with admiration, appreciate, and love. In this new version of homosexual Bar, Will Fellows interweaves Branson’s chapters with old viewpoint supplied via his personal insightful observation and excerpts gleaned from letters and essays showing in homosexual guides of the interval. additionally incorporated is the unique creation to the e-book by means of maverick Nineteen Fifties psychiatrist Blanche Baker. The eclectic collection of voices offers the flavour of yank existence in that outstanding age of hysteria, revealing how homosexual males observed themselves and their conditions, and the way others perceived them. Outstanding publication, chosen via the general public Library Association Best Books for prime faculties, chosen by way of the yankee organization of college Libraries
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Vivacious, unconventional, candid, and directly, Helen Branson operated a homosexual bar in la within the 1950s—America’s so much anti-gay decade. After years of heading off drunken passes as an entertainer in cocktail bars, this divorced grandmother most well-liked the wit, style, and enjoyable she chanced on between gay males.
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Remember that you have had a fortunate experience but not all homos are angels any more than all heteros are devils. Discrimination is important in all aspects of life. ” 20 Foreword This is how it happened. Over a year ago I had dinner with my friends Faye and Barro. After an imaginative feast we sat in the den talking ceramics, listening to records and discussing events in my bar. ’ I grinned at her. ‘Me? ’ The suggestion stayed with me. After much thought I mapped a course. I bought a tape recorder and talked my ideas into it.
I realize that a person must be broadminded in this day and age; and that this is some sort of psychological sickness in Bob, and that I should look upon it as such. ” The columnist’s reply: “Let’s not get so broadminded that we can’t make a cleancut saving distinction between psychological sickness, on the one hand, and downright addiction to vice on the other hand. If your friend Bob were only and simply psychologically sick, he would be shamed and anguished by his deviate tendencies; and desperately hopeful that a cure might be found, to restore him to self-respecting normalcy.
Sometimes in these early teens he is introduced to sexual experimentation by others his own age, but this experience does not necessarily make him into a homosexual. That exploration among boys is the rule rather than the exception. He may reach college days or later before he is really introduced to homosexual activities that impress him. In the meantime he has been going around with girls. Because of his sensitive nature and because he is so neat and polite he may be very popular with them. He is critical of their appearance but he has ideas for them in color combinations and hairdos and they LOVE it.
Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s by Will Fellows
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