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Author Brown, Ricardo J

Title The evening crowd at Kirmser's : a gay life in the 1940s / Ricardo J. Brown ; edited by William Reichard ; foreword by Allan H. Spear
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 155 pages)
Contents Foreword; 1. Kirmser's; 2. That Old Gang of Mine; 3. The Promised Land; 4. The All-American Boy; 5. The Girls; 6. The Survivors; 7. Lucky; 8. The Guy with Crabs and Other Visitors; 9. The Coney Island; 10. Flaming Youth; 11. Winter Carnival; 12. The Picture in the Window; 13. Dinner at the Ryan
Summary The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's is a compelling memoir of the author's experiences as a young gay man during the 1940s. In an engaging and open writing style, and through stories both humorous and tragic, Brown introduces us to the companions and friends he met at Kirmser's, a working-class bar in downtown St. Paul that became an unofficial home to gay men and lesbians at night. "Whimsical, insightful, and compellingly readable, Ricardo Brown's memoir offers a remarkable portrait of the life gay men built for themselves after the Second World War in small cities far from the coastal meccas of g
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Subject Homosexuality -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- History
Gay people -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Gay people
Homosexuality
Minnesota -- Saint Paul
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816691807
0816691800
9780816636211
0816636214