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- GAY CLUB!: BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS OF GAY CLUB! BY SIMON JAM GREEN
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- THE LTLE GAY BOOK CLUB
- THE BOOK CLUB THAT HELPED SPARK THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- 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.
In one store, on Forty-send Street, he found Loren Wahl’s novel “The Invisible Glass, ” which picts homosexualy and racism the ary.
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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.
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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.
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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.