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The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s Ricardo J. Brown,William Reichard No preview available - 2001 |
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Page xiii - come out of the closet," learning to live as proud and openly gay men and women and demanding public recognition. But the World War II generation slowly stretched their closet to its limits, not proclaiming or parading their homosexuality in public but not willing to live lonely, isolated...
Page xv - The worst effect of slavery was to make Negroes doubt themselves and share in the general contempt for black folk," writes the eminent Negro sociologist, WEB DuBois. Similarly the worst effect of discrimination has been to make the homosexuals doubt themselves and share in the general contempt for sexual inverts.
Page xiv - D'Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, 33; Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, 127-28. Allan Berube likewise contends that exclusively gay bars "helped shape a sense of gay identity that went beyond the individual to the group.