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

Name: Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman & Her Boys in the 1950'
Start: 2010-11-11T19:30:00-00:00
End: 2010-11-11T19:30:00-00:00
Location: Women & Children First Books

Thursday, November 11, 2010, 7:30 PM | view details and directions

Gray-haired grandmother Helen P. Branson was about the last person you'd expect to run a gay bar in 1950s Hollywood, yet for the better part of a decade she cheerfully served up beer and sympathy to the men she affectionately referred to as her boys. Sixty years later, when writer and anthologist Will Fellows (Farm Boys) discovered a copy of her long out-of-print memoir, he knew Helen's was a story worth telling. Combining her original text with his own biographical sleuthing, cultural criticism and historical research, Fellows brings those pre-Stonewall days roaring back to life.

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Women & Children First Books
5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL