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Contents:
- LEAVING THE GAY PLACE
- BOOK REVIEW: “THE GAY PLACE” BY BILLY LEE BRAMMER
- LEAVG THE GAY PLACE: BILLY LEE BRAMMER AND THE GREAT SOCIETY
- GAY PLACE, BEG THREE RELATED NOVELS: THE FLEA CIRC, ROOM ENOUGH TO CAPER, COUNTRY PLEASUR. REPRT OF THE 1961 ED
- GAY CHIGO
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- TOP 10 BT GAY ADULT BOOK STOR NEAR CHIGO, ILLOIS
- A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
- THE GAY REVOLUTN
- REVIEW: ROBERT JON JR. SHEDS LIGHT ON LIV OF ENSLAVED GAY MEN ‘THE PROPHETS’
LEAVING THE GAY PLACE
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On the ver of the Universy of Texas Prs edn of Billy Lee Brammer’s 1961 novel The Gay Place is a blurb by David Halberstam:. Other is The Gay Place, a stunng, origal, tensely human novel spired by Lyndon Johnson. “I know a gay place”.
Stt Fzgerald poem which clus the l: “I heard Helena/In a hnted doze/Say: ‘I know a gay place/Nobody knows. Given Halberstam’s strong endorsement of The Gay Place, I expected somethg solid and important and sential. The Gay Place clearly isn’t the sort of polil story that is immersed the electoral-legislative procs and that exam the moral and personal quandari of policians tryg to make or fluence policy cisns while strivg to stay afloat as the current of events barrels them along.
BOOK REVIEW: “THE GAY PLACE” BY BILLY LEE BRAMMER
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Hardly anythg polil, such as legislative horse-tradg, tak place on the pag of The Gay Place, and most of what do occurs eher off-stage (e. He was a staffer for him At and Washgton, and he wrote most of his only book, The Gay Place, while workg for him. I reread The Gay Place last year and thought still holds up very well.
593 reviewsApril 7, 2019Anyone who has read and loved The Gay Place (and if you've read , you loved , and if you haven't read , you should), will easily be drawn to this bgraphy of Billy Lee Brammer. Bee The Gay Place is so tobgraphil, the first half of the book wh s liberal At journalists, Texas legislators, LBJ tensy, pills and drks, Scholz Garten gab fts, and maral fili will seem very faiar.
LEAVG THE GAY PLACE: BILLY LEE BRAMMER AND THE GREAT SOCIETY
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Brammer never wrote another novel after The Gay Place.
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The Gay Place was wrten while Brammer worked for Johnson--he took speed to do both jobs at once.
Tellectual-history lerature texas18 reviewsMarch 24, 2019Obvly, this book will be more enjoyable if you've read Brammer's masterpiece, The Gay Place, first, but should still be enjoyable to anyone terted Lyndon Johnson, the '60s, or Texas culture.
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It's granular s tail of his life but also giv perspective for the At polil culture portrayed The Gay Place. This was almost as good as The Gay Place self.
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A mt read if you have read The Gay Place. Reviewed the Uned Stat on June 1, 2010Billy Lee Brammer's THE GAY PLACE serv s acclaim as one of the great polil novels.
What is also obv wh the book is how much polics is not a happy place, that the liv of the participants are empty, that relatnships are ed, and that alohalism and unfahfulns are is anythg but a gay not then a five star review given the praise above? Reviewed the Uned Stat on December 23, 2012One of the most famo waterg hol At, Texas, where legislators, lobbits, ernment officials, bsmen, and universy stunts hung out, was a gay, happeng place that attracted all ers. Billy Lee Brammer, thor of The Gay Place, fely knew where the bodi were buried, and for reasons all his own, he cid to reveal a lot of here.
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A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
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Like any good gay bar, this book has a bouncer, and his name is is Atherton L’s first book, but benefs om his extensive experience as an sayist and an edor of Failed Stat, a journal about plac. “Gay Bar” is well crafted (which is pecially pleasg nsirg this is a memoir about stctur), wh a strong thorial hand that mak the rear feel refully shepherd through the text, even as Atherton L jumps s and ntents. When he discs an important 1966 prott at the historic Greenwich Village gay bar Juli’, he c a New York Tim article to talk about the “tr of activists” volved — not realizg that the article left out a fourth man, Randy Wicker (the only one still alive, cintally enough) a half page later, though, Atherton L warns that spe the activist claim that gay bars “should be kept open to facilate knowledge passg between generatns, ” he himself had never really received gay wisdom “on a barstool.
THE GAY REVOLUTN
” This book is not about history, the subject you study, but history, that thg you have wh that guy by the jebox whose name you n’t the fal chapter of “Gay Bar, ” Atherton L grappl wh gog to a new generatn of bars, created by very different forc, meetg very different needs.
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REVIEW: ROBERT JON JR. SHEDS LIGHT ON LIV OF ENSLAVED GAY MEN ‘THE PROPHETS’
The “born-male homosexualists, ” he asserted, are easy to spot by their female characteristics: their walk, body ntour, voice, mannerisms, texture of sk, and also their tert hoekeepg and theatril productns. The “women homosexualists” are fickle, always eager to add to their list of nquts, and are extremely jealo of the object of their lts. Though Simon granted that some homosexualists live as “cent members of society, ” many, he sisted, have psychopathic personali, are different to public opn, and bee “predatory prostut.
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