View source for De Forrest: "The Gay Year: A Novel," 1949

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[[Image:DeF.GayYear.cov.col.75px.jpeg|frame|On title page: M. de F, ''The Gay Year: A Novel'' (NY: Castle Books, 1949). Opposite title page: Copyright 1949 by Michael de Forrest.]]



Text about book.
[[Image:De F.GayYear.back.75dpi.jpeg|right|frame|Back jacket of "The Gay Year."]]


'''Terminology'''

camp, p. 27 ("you're becoming a camp")

fag, p. 27

fairies, p. 112

fairy, p. 27

fruit, p. 27

gay, title p., pp. 27 (in quotes), 36 

gay bars, pp. 56, 63

girls, p. 71

homo, p. 20

homosexual, p. 20

homosexual's, p. 113

normal, p. 113

queer, p. 20, 27

queers, p. 112

straight, pp. 27, 32

trade, p. 71



'''Symbols'''

loafers, p. 71 

red ties, p. 71


'''Events'''

homo bashers: gang of boys who, sometimes, also bash "a nigger with a wad of dough", p. 112

homosexuals as fashion "pace setters," p. 71



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[[Category:de Forrest, Michael]
[[Category: Fiction -- Novel]]
[[Category: New York City -- Greenwich Village]]
[[Category: Terminology -- gay]]
[[Category: Terminology -- gay bars]]
[[Category: Terminology -- homo]]
[[Category: Terminology -- queer]]
[[Category: Terminology -- straight]]