'The Outsirs' Author: My Characters Are Not Gay

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THE OUTSIRS AUTHOR: MY CHARACTERS ARE NOT GAY

Barr’s novel is a sort of roman a clef love story between two men who meet the Navy World War II, and one of the first mastream novels to portray openly gay men a posive light – “Its two thoughtful, mascule hero provid a rrective to the many mdls, pathetic or flighty gay characters of the forti, ” wrote cric Roger Aten the 1970s. ” Van Cleve is the former assistant curator of the Tretter Collectn Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Studi at the Universy of Mnota, and the book is a thoughtful, well-selected overview of materials om that llectn, assembled to a historil narrative that touch on aspects of Mnota queer culture, begng wh the Ojibwe, and movg over the years through 21st century activist anizatns. It clus everythg om Xeroxed pamphlets, magaz, and flyers om the dawn of the gay rights movement, to photos, oral histori, and wrten acunts om much earlier, many of which were rcued om certa obscury by dited activists, volunteers, and amatr archivists, and donated to the llectn.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

That enpass a really wi spectm of cultural activy, obvly, so even takg a cursory glance at the holdgs, you n fd everythg om LPs, children’s books, textbooks, archival llectns of pback buttons, oversized ffee table art books about Warhol and Avedon (not gay himself, but noted for portras of gay subjects, cludg a famo one of Allen Gsberg and Peter Orlovsky an embrace).

There are full ns of Tw Ci gay-themed publitns of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, such as Posively Gay, Equal Time, the GLC Voice, and Tw Ci Gaze, as well as selectns of peer publitns om other ci, such as Milwkee’s Amazon or Vanuver’s Angl. Pagg through Equal Time or Posively Gay is an tertg and somewhat soberg glance at the thrivg but still que limed parameters of lol LGBT culture an earlier era: prted on the sibars and full-page spreads black-and-whe photos, text blocks and le drawgs are ads for the retailers, bars, clubs, social servic, anizatns and other mercial tablishments that nstuted the safe spac of those tim for a margalized and opprsed particular, I fd a small, one-fold sat-gloss pamphlet lled “Marketplace” – only four issu 1980 – tertg for the reasons.

There’s such an ialism the necsy of such an unrtakg – a listgs of bs for “US, ” reads – but also the fact that this ty facet of the lol gay culture was prerved and is now available to anyone who’d like to look at every cy Ameri had a “Marketplace”  the post-Stonewall years, as limed as may have been s long-term prospects.

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