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GAY
You probably know what means to “e out” as gay. In my 2020 book“Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are, ”, I explore the history of this term, om the earlit days of the gay rights movement, to today, when has been adopted by other movements. In the late 19th and early 20th century, gay subculture thrived many large Amerin ci.
Gay men spoke of “g out” to gay society – borrowg the term om butante society, where ele young women me out to high society. A 1931 news article the Baltimore Ao-Amerin referred to “the g out of new butant to homosexual society. The 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s wnsed a growg backlash agast this visible gay world.
In rponse, gay life beme more secretive. The Mattache Society, the earlit important anizatn of what was known as the homophile movement – a precursor of the gay rights movement – took s name om myster medieval figur masks.