Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s : A Gay Life in the 1940s (Hardcover)

from MichaelC.Oliveira

The book provides a glimpse into gay life in the 1940s. This story focused on a few years of one man's life in St. Paul; it could be set almost any city. The book brings to life the rules of discretion, formation of community, the search for love, and the humiliation of exposure. At times coarse ...

from lydia1879

Well, this was a total surprise. I read this for research for a historical fiction novel I'm writing and it hit precisely in my niche. Working class, queer man in the armed forces. ... and it was such a lovely read! Brown is a journalist and so he includes thoughtful anecdotes alongside some beau...

from mikerr

Less than honourably discharged from the navy in 1945 for disclosing his homosexuality, Ricardo Brown returns to St Paul Minnesota to try to make a life for himself. He finds a nondescript bar that caters to a gay clientele and it becomes his social centre. This very readable memoir shines a ligh...

from e-zReader

It is better. I just discovered this little book in the Library at the GLCC in Pittsburgh. It's a well written, poignant, memoir and history of gays in St. Paul, MN in the mid-1940s. Kirmser's is a straight bar by day and a gay bar at night where St. Pauls men and women can come together for a fe...

from e-zReader

It is better. I just discovered this little book in the Library at the GLCC in Pittsburgh. It's a well written, poignant, memoir and history of gays in St. Paul, MN in the mid-1940s. Kirmser's is a straight bar by day and a gay bar at night where St. Pauls men and women can come together for a fe...