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BL
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1023051
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b777421
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| Main Entry
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Brown, Ricardo J.
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| Title & Author
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The evening crowd at Kirmser's : : a gay life in the 1940s /\ Ricardo J. Brown ; edited by William Reichard ; foreword by Allan H. Spear.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2001.
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1 online resource (xvii, 155 pages)
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| ISBN
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0816636214
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: 0816691800
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: 9780816636211
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: 9780816691807
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0816636214
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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Gays-- Minnesota-- Saint Paul-- History.
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Homosexuality-- Minnesota-- Saint Paul-- History.
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Gays.
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Homosexuality.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Minnesota, Saint Paul.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.76/6/09776581
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| LC Classification
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HQ76.3.U52S253 2001eb
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