Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
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HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
For much of the 20C 'fairy' was ed to mean 'gay'. Where do this sense e om and when was first ed? Probably the US's east ast the late 19C. * fairies gay history *
Gay Fairi: When and Why. But somewhere down the list is a gay man.
The gay scene of New York Cy was promently thst to the public eye 1969, after rts at a Greenwich Village bar. But existed long before that. * fairies gay history *
But there are, fact, a number of works of cultural history that make somethg of the fairy = gay nnectn.
The Longer Oxford English Dictnary has, as s fifth and fal meang for fairy: ‘A male homosexual.
* fairies gay history *
But how much earlier did ‘fairy’ mean homosexual? This cis wh what is known of the peculiar societi of verts [homosexuals].