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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s

Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s

Branson, Helen P.
Baker, Blanche M.
Fellows, Will

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Biographies General20th Century United States HistoryGLBTQIA Studies

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0299248542
ISBN13: 9780299248543
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 among homosexual men. Enjoying their companionship and deploring their plight, she gave her gay friends a place to socialize. Though at the time California statutes prohibited homosexuals from gathering in bars, Helen's place was relaxed, suave, and remarkably safe from police raids and other anti-homosexual hazards. In 1957 she published her extraordinary memoir Gay Bar, the first book by a heterosexual to depict the lives of homosexuals with admiration, respect, and love.

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