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Patricia Nell Warren, thor of the upg book The Lavenr Locker Room, talks about gay athlet pro sports. From footbal to skatg, she discs gay athlet throughout history.

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PATRICIA NELL WARREN, NOVELIST OF GAY ROMANCE, DI AT 82

Patricia Nell Warren wrote this bt seller about a gay ach and an Olympic nner 45 years ago, * front runner gay *

Many would be surprised to know that the bt-sellg gay novel of all time is a story about a gay ach and his Olympic nner as told Patricia Nell Warren’s 1974 bt seller, ‘The Front Runner. Along wh iends, the two navigate the homophobic waters of track & field the 1970s wh their hearts set on the Olympic Gam. It was the first piece of ntemporary gay fictn to reach the New York Tim Bt Seller list, and the Tim lled “the most movg, monumental love story ever wrten about gay life.

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Before the Inter, ‘The Front Runner’ for many was that secret look si gay life. Wh their bedroom door closed, untls young men locked themselv away as they read this credible story of gay love. For gay sports fans and athlet, was the first piece of gay culture that reflected them and their passn for sports.

Nobody had created a character like him gay lerature before.

She also vised a gay-porn theater Manhattan.

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She would head out on her lunch breaks at Rears Digt drsed a su, pay her five dollars, and s a theater of gay men watchg porn and dog god-knows-what. The legacy of the novel liv on for many their lol gay nng group, many of which are lled the Frontnners.

Sometim I wonred if that peculiar Amerin hatred of homosexualy isn’t a rult of s beg so rooted, so silent and unacknowledged, yet so pervasive our history. But for many of her gay fans, Warren’s ‘The Front Runner’ will rema her most important ntributn to history. All month long, Outsports is revisg key moments gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer sports history as part of LGBTQ history month.

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s0468a">{lor:#595959;font-fay:Sailec,Sailec-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;marg-bottom:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.125rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.3125rem;le-height:2.5rem;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-s0468a exadjwu8"><p>“I’m pretty darn sure that, pecially the 1970s, every LGBTQ person had grown up wh negative views of themselv. 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