Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: The Cabaret — The Whe Rabb Cabaret

Contents:

• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL: THE CABARET
• GAY DATG ATHENS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY RAT WEDDG BANNED ALABAMA? SO WERE THE BEATL, BOOK ABOUT BLACK AND WHE RABBS

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL: THE CABARET

Whe Rabb Books & Thgs, which served the gay and lbian muny the Triangle, closed this month after almost two s. John was nng a mail-orr lligraphy supply bs Greensboro when, the mid-1980s, he took a chance and add gay-themed books to the ont of his retail space. I ran a gay muny newspaper at the time, The Front Page, and worked wh John on advertisg.

GAY DATG ATHENS

Gay men and lbians my age n often ce a particular book that was ccial to their g-out procsOut of the Closets: Voic of Gay Liberatn or Sappho Was a Right-On Woman, for example. The Paper Plant had a certa raffish charm that appealed to Raleigh’s bohemian set, but if we were gog to lure gay men and lbians out of the Raleigh suburbs and over om Durham and Chapel Hill, we need to spiff the place up nsirably.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

As happened, nothg sold except the gay stuff, but took awhile to figure that out.

GAY RAT WEDDG BANNED ALABAMA? SO WERE THE BEATL, BOOK ABOUT BLACK AND WHE RABBS

We origally signed the store so that got gayer the farther back you went. Most of the gay nsumer magaz are gone. Most of the gayum”gentlemen’s” magaz are gone.

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