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Contents:
- STORIES FROM THE CAMPUS CLOSET / UC BERKELEY'S 1950S GAY, LBIAN ALUMNI TELL HISTORY
- FEATURED SHORT STORI FICTN
- YOUNG BISEXUAL AND GAY MEN: PERSONAL STORI
- CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
STORIES FROM THE CAMPUS CLOSET / UC BERKELEY'S 1950S GAY, LBIAN ALUMNI TELL HISTORY
Gay and lbian stunts at the Universy of California at Berkeley may have been forced... * gay written stories *
The Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Mistn of Cameron Post have been turned to blockbter films, and jt about every YA agent out there has “own-voic LGBTQ+ stori” on their mancript wish list. Mildred (Jefey) Dickemann took part an oral history scribg gay and lbian life at Universy of California at Berkeley the 1950s. Chronicle photo by Kendra Luck2000-09-06 04:00:00 PDT BERKELEY -- Gay and lbian stunts at the Universy of California at Berkeley may have been forced to rema the closet 50 years ago, but that didn't stop them om venturg out to gay bars San Francis wh their straight iends.
"It was a kd of show for them, a cursy, " relled Mildred Dickemann of the people who acpanied her to Focch's, the Black Cat and Mona's North for the closeted gay llege stunts, gog to the bars was much more than a passg para.
FEATURED SHORT STORI FICTN
This is the story of my first time and, as many first tim on anythg, didn't´t go well bee of my experience. Many say they knew they were gay their whole liv, not my se. I had no ia. If somebody would tell me I was gay before that day, I would have given them a middle fger. But I * gay written stories *
Many of Kelly's iends did not know Kelly was gay and even though he was havg trysts wh men, Kelly did not thk of himself as homosexual.
"You always thought that you were gog to get married, " said, Dickemann and five other gay alumni told their stori for an oral history project lled Gay Bears.
YOUNG BISEXUAL AND GAY MEN: PERSONAL STORI
Browse through and read gay short story short stori fictn stori and books * gay written stories *
The llectn, the Universy Archiv at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, is the first documentatn of gay life on mp.
CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
Gay men stori: real life personal stori om young gay men. * gay written stories *
He is also adjunct curator for the Bancroft Library's Sexual Orientatn and Social Conflict Collectn, which exam gay and opposg reactns to such issu as same-sex marriag and domtic- partner benefs. Benemann me up wh the ia for the Gay Bears llectn after searchg the archiv a ago for any rerd of gay and lbian history but fdg nothg. It was not unlike his experience when he first entered UC Berkeley as a 19-year-old sophomore 1969.
"When I me here, I knew that I was gay, but I never met another person who I knew was gay, " relled Benemann. "I had never read a book that had a gay character and never saw a gay person on TV or a movie. The early gay groups, such as the Gay Liberatn Front, which had grown out of the anti-war movement, did not foc on mp life and seemed too radil to Benemann.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
* gay written stories *
It was at UC Berkeley's first gay dance, 1971, that Benemann fally was ready to e out of the for those who me before Benemann, there were no such opportuni. People were signg loyalty oaths clarg that they were not munist, and others were losg jobs, scholarships and their fai when was revealed that they were gay. She was troduced to gay life when she was her early 20s, when a gay man livg the Internatnal Hoe took her to Focch's.
"Later, Dickemann began attendg dner parti at private hom that she pared to "salons" where gay people uld drs and act the way they wanted as long as they remaed discreet. He attend the symphony, hered at the opera and played the Cal even though there was a lot of sleepg around at his aterny and the band, Kelly said there was no posive rercement on mp for the gay liftyle.
GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
Instead, Kelly and his iends eventually foced their social liv on North Beach, wh s gay bars and dance clubs. A favore spot was the Whe Horse Inn on Telegraph Avenue, a place that evolved om a aterny bar to a gay hangout. "We were all gog through horrible thgs psychologilly bee none of uld adm we were gay, " he wasn't until 1957, when Kelly attend graduate school New Orleans, that he clared openly that he was gay.
A lot had changed by 1981 when L Wright wrote about his gay activism on his graduate school applitn to UC Berkeley. Fdg former stunts willg to share their stori for the Gay Bears llectn has proved to be a challenge for Benemann.