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A SAFE SPOT FOR GAY TRAVELERS AT JAMAI'S HEDONISM II

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‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. Meanwhile, fellow German artist Jeanne Mammen, herself one of the new pennt reer women, portrayed gay women revellg their sexualy Weimar's r nightclubs. Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri.

Louis filmmaker Geoff Story has begun weavg the films to a documentary, “Gay Home Movie. ” It offers a rare glimpse to a largely visible world, a time when same-sex relatnships were not only looked at as immoral — they were a gay man, Story is fascated by the brtle, flickerg scen that clu a uniformed World War II soldier kissg another man.

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