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GIFTG YOUR GAY LOVER FLOWERS: THE DO’S, DON’TS, & MT DO
A pre-Stonewall gay bar at the rner of Christopher Street and Gay Street was lled The Flower Pot. Notably, a group of seven gay male wrers who met up regularly New York Cy 1980 and 1981 named themselv “The Vlet Quill. As Looby not Flowers of Manhood, “daisy, ” “buttercup, ” and pecially “pansy, ” as well as the generalized “horticultural lad” were early twentieth century terms for “flamboyant gay men.
The police eventually shut them all down, cludg a 1939 one Harlem that end a 70-year annual tradn (for more, see Gaylaw: Challengg the Apartheid of the Closet by William N.