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- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
GAY CLUB!: BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS OF GAY CLUB! BY SIMON JAM GREEN
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He’d always assumed that, by the time he entered his twenti, he would velop sir for women, then marry and have 1954, on a bs trip to Cleveland, Segura stopped by a bookstore and saw a py of “The Homosexual Ameri, ” by Donald Webster Cory. Cory argued that homosexuals were not troubled dividuals but members of a distct mory group who need to anize and fight for their rights. In the back of the book was a list of other tl addrsg homosexualy.
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In one store, on Forty-send Street, he found Loren Wahl’s novel “The Invisible Glass, ” which picts homosexualy and racism the ary. Johnson, who scrib the book service “Buyg Gay, ” his book about the legacy of gay men’s physique magaz, told me. The service didn’t have meetgs; Cory simply selected books and sent the tl to his rears, highlightg everythg om Marc Branl’s novel “The Barriers Between, ” about a man who murrs his iend for “unnatural advanc, ” to “Homosexualy and the Wtern Christian Tradn, ” a gay theologil history that Cory scribed as “the book that hundreds of our rears have been searchg for, ” one that “they uld give to iends, fay, and unsellors.
Operatg a gay book service was not whout risks. Attorneys offic dicted and fed publishers of gay materials on obsceny charg; Greenberg paid the ernment a three-thoand-dollar fe, the mid-fifti, and had to pull several of s books om publitn for alleged obsceny. Queer people ught distributg gay books uld cur worse than f.
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” Víctor Macías-González, a historian and the thor of a paper on Tony Segura, told me that many queer people refed to buy gay books, stead borrowg them through rental servic, which a number of bookstor had at the yet the early fifti saw a boom queer lerature, driven part by the rise of cheap paperbacks. In “Buyg Gay, ” Johnson quot a letter that a Massachetts librarian sent to Greenberg askg for addnal tl: “Ctomers have been after me to get a few ‘so-lled’ gay books. Acrdg to Johnson, he tallied their nam and mailg addrs to what he lled the “H” list (prumably for “homosexual”), hop of further tappg the market.
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In 1951, Aymar published Cory’s “The Homosexual Ameri. ” Cory lled on gay people “to extend eedom of the dividual, of speech, prs, and thought to an entirely new realm.
As Johnson not “Buyg Gay, ” Aymar cid to pool his “H” list wh Cory’s letters to form the Cory Book Service. Together, they figured, they would have a direct le to the gay book the book service’s gural issue, sent out September, 1952, Cory promised that many of the books he featured would be available to his subscribers before they h stor.
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The hostily toward homosexualy durg this era, ’s a small miracle that the newsletter ped censorship. Cory do seem to have had a legal team vettg which books he remend: when Jay Ltle, a gay thor, wrote to Cory about placg his book “Maybe-Tomorrow” wh the service, Cory replied that, although he enjoyed the novel, “We have not only been advised, but orred by our lawyers, not to e your book.
At a discsn group sponsored by the Mattache Society—a secretive gay anizatn that had formed Los Angel 1950—someone mentned the Cory Book Service, and soon afterward an attene ntacted Cory, askg for fifty newsletter-subscriptn rds. “Had not been for Donald Webster Cory’s list, ONE Magaze, which historians of the gay movement nsir to be cril, might not have gotten off the ground, ” Johnson told me.