De Forrest: "The Gay Year: A Novel," 1949

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On title page: M. de F, The Gay Year: A Novel (NY: Castle Books, 1949). Opposite title page: Copyright 1949 by Michael de Forrest.

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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

gayest, p. 120

homo, p. 20

homosexual, p. 20

homosexual's, p. 113

normal, p. 113

queer, p. 20, 27

queer bar (in SF), p/ 119

queers, p. 112, 118

straight, pp. 27, 32

U.S. Army, p. 20.

Symbols

loafers, p.

red ties, p.

Events

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

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