Gay bar : : the fabulous, true story of a daring woman and her boys in the 1950s / / Will Fellow and Helen P. Branson ; introduction by Blanche M. Baker.
Vivacious, unconventional, candid, and straight, Helen Branson operated a gay bar in Los Angeles in the 1950s - America's most anti-gay decade. After years of fending off drunken passes as an entertainer in cocktail bars, this divorced grandmother preferred the wit, variety, and fun she found a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Madison, Wisconsin : : University of Wisconsin Press,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 166 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Preface
- From The Dust Jacket Of The Original Edition
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Well, Get You, Girl
- Chapter 2: Don8217;t Scream At Your Mother
- Chapter 3: Carry On Like Faust
- Chapter 4: Clever Drag, But I Think He8217;s Fuzz
- Chapter 5: Hit Him With Your Beaded Bag, May
- Chapter 6: Meanwhile, Back At The Palace
- Chapter 7: And Away We Go
- Chapter 8: Must Be These High Heels I8217;M Wearing
- Chapter 9: I Read Her Beads For Her
- Chapter 10: Listen To Your Mother
- For The Record
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes On Sources
- Bibliography.