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Jam Kirchick reunts the past and prent of gay rights "Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton," cludg DC's Stonewall equivalent.

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WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'

A new book exam the unknown or barely known liv of gay people workg and livg our natn’s pal, a cy known for s mix of power and secrets.

SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS

“Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds. “I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick said.

JAM KIRCHICK EXPLOR DC’S GAY HISTORY AN AMB NEW BOOK

Those stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially.

Even beg associated wh a spected homosexual uld e the untry’s most powerful men to quiver.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY HISTORY WASHINGTON DC

Washgton, D.C.'s hidn gay history is unvered 'Secret Cy' .

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