Evening Crowd at Kirmsers: A Gay Life In The 1940S

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Gay life and culture in Minnesota at the wake of World War II is brilliantly chronicled in this vivid, intimate, and sometimes shocking memoir by a lifelong journalist. Reprint. (Social Science).

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"Extraordinary... While Brown's life is the spine of his brief narrative, its flesh is in the stories of the women and men who frequented Kirmser's, the working-class bar run by an old German couple that was 'a fort in the midst of a savage and hostile population.' Never glamorizing or waxing sentimental, he convincingly, honestly, and intelligently portrays the pain and the deep sense of community he and his friends experienced in the face of persecution."
"Kirmser's itself is the major character in this lively, intimate book."
"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 gay life."