The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s: A Gay Life in the 1940s
ISBN: 9780816691807
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Homosexuality -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- History; Gays -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- History;

The Evening Crowd at KirmserOCOs is a compelling memoir of the authorOCOs 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 KirmserOCOs, a working-class bar in downtown St. Paul that became an unofficial home to gay men and lesbians at night. OC Whimsical, insightful, and compellingly readable, Ricardo BrownOCOs 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 gay life. A fascinating portrait of working-class gay male life in the postwar period.OCO George Chauncey, author of Gay New York"


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