Pri serv more than a month. The gay songs – om dis hs to club classics – are perfect for Pri year-round.
Contents:
OUTRAGE OVER THE FLTSTON “GAY OLD TIME”
* a gay old time song *
In the 1920s and early ’30s, Prohibn’s end gave way to the “Pansy Craze”: baret drag performanc that brought gay nightlife to the mass and rried their athetics to mastream mil theater. In the mid-’30s, at the edge of the Great Deprsn, moral backlash—sometim disguised as enomic nservatism but ually explic s bigotry—shut down many of the clubs and formally crimalized gay sex at a sle that had never before been seen.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
Jazz n’t be imaged whout the ntributns of giants like Billy Strayhorn (of De Ellgton’s band), who was openly gay, and, later, Cecil Taylor, who found that three-letter word was too limg.