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Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype.

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Carrie Bart never met the person who first helped her accept her homosexualy. I cid my subject would be homosexualy.

“And there wasnt much about lbians the books–hardly anythg; they mostly documented homosexual men. “The first gay book I ever read was Faggots [Larry Kramer’s novel about New York gay life], when me out the late 70s.

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And of urse there was John Knowl’s A Separate Peace and The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren–and After Dark magaze, ” he s, rellg the now-funct glossy entertament publitn that tered oh-so-discreetly to a gay male sensibily. The story’s the same for most gay men and lbians: before they bee sexually active or even jt emotnally volved wh boyiends and girliends, their real–sometim only–iends are books. So a safe place to fd gay lerature be not jt a shoppg stop but a haven.

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Chigo, as polil activists have poted out, is the only major cy whout civil rights protectns for gays and lbians; ’s also, until now, been the only cy whout a bookstore voted to lbian and gay lerature. “People ask , ‘How are you gog to fill a whole store wh gay and lbian books? He pots out that addn to the numero gay oriented tl published by major prs–a velopment of only the last 15 years or so–there are a dozen publishg firms specializg gay and lbian books.

Many of the alternative prs market their product through mail-orr distributn, placg ads gay and lbian newspapers and magaz. At least two general-tert bookstor Chigo–Unabridged and Barbara’s, both popular north-si shops–stock a substantial gay and lbian ventory, and the femist Women & Children First rri a good al of lbian-related material. But Shglecker and Bart claim that People Like Us will be able to pete “by havg the wist selectn available, by beg exclively gay and lbian, and by beg a muny rource.

” One entire wall of the shop is signated as a muny bullet board; the store also matas a b for people to donate old books to Horizons Social Servic, the cy’s gay and lbian unselg and legal referral agency. This last sectn is particularly important to Bart, who– addn to her full-time job as bs manager of Evanston’s Northlight Theatre and her volvement wh People Like Us–is a volunteer unselor for the Horizons Youth Group, a social and support group for gay and lbian teenagers. “I spent time the gay bookstore Lambda Risg Washgton, D.

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