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Cartoon of clerk fixing his hair. Caption: "A Counter-Part." Published 1910; postmarked July 29, 1911. Identification on back "S 116."  
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Cartoon of clerk fixing his hair. Caption: "A Counter-Part." Published 1910; postmarked July 29, 1911. Identification on back "S 116." An OutHistory useer, Givenbak, tells us his copy of this postcard is postmarked 1910.
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In this card, an effeminate clerk in a dry-goods store fixes his hair while customers go unattended; his vanity and the needs of consumer capitalism are implicitly at odds. As early as 1860 a parody of Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" attacked the poet by picturing him as a "weak and effeminate" dry-goods salesman or "Counter-jumper," an occupation thought suitable for only the most effete of males (see {{GAH}}, p. 655 n. 133). Another reference, of 1868, refers to a song titled the "Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store," by Will S. Hays, a female impersonator (cited on the published sheet music of Hay's "Mistress Jinks of Madison Square," NY:  J. I. Peters, 1868, in the collection of Marshal Weeks). This is one of the earliest documented uses of the word "gay" in relation to an effeminate man. {{RR}} The earliest documentation of the word gay being used for men who desire sexual contact with men occurs in [?].
 

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Cartoon of clerk fixing his hair. Caption: "A Counter-Part." Published 1910; postmarked July 29, 1911. Identification on back "S 116." An OutHistory useer, Givenbak, tells us his copy of this postcard is postmarked 1910.

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