Growg Up Gay

growing up gay in the 70s

In her new memoir, You Can't Buy Love, Carol Anrson wr of growg up gay -- and fundamentalist -- the 1960s and tryg to tablish a queer fay a later. Read an exclive excerpt below.

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PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S

Anthony Friedk photographed gay culture California the 1960s * growing up gay in the 70s *

It was tough growg up gay the 70s. Image livg a town wh no Gaydar, no Grdr, no Scff, no gay bars, no gay clubs, no gay snas, no gay magaz, no gay bookshops, no gay film and no gay lerature. We joke now about beg the ‘only gay the village’ but that was the realy.

'THERE WERE NO MOLS': GROWG UP THE 70S WH AN OUT GAY DAD

* growing up gay in the 70s *

The only gay people I ever saw were on TV; Kenh Williams, John Inman, Larry Grayson and Quent Crisp, figur that, back then, I reiled om. I was a ‘homosexual’. The Brannia, was the only gay bar town and was only gay on the first Sunday of every month, and only on one si of the bar.

GAY MEN AND AGG

When you’re a gay man, agg is plited. * growing up gay in the 70s *

He was the first gay man I’d ever seen the flh. Then, wh fac ked makp, we’d make our way to The Brannia, like teenage Avon Ladi off to a gay prom night. About the same time that a new vis was beg intified the US, I was already disverg that the lure of gay sex uld be a adly pursu.

GROWG UP GAY

An elephant’s gay graveyard. In fact, the clientele were so old that felt like we were a new breed of gay man, disverg ourselv early life, rather than upon retirement. We’d had ltle straight sex tn at school, so obvly knew nothg about what gay men were supposed to do.

GUT OPN: I GREW UP GAY ALABAMA THE 70′S, TODAY’S KIDS MAY HAVE HARR

It had a gay bar that was open every night. I’d never seen a gay man wear mouflage troers before. It was such a revelatn that gay men uld drs anythg but effemate clothg that om then on I knew I had to leave that town.

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