Gay life was part of the
fabric of the time, with many out gay writers, artists, popular gay bars (the
dapper butch Gladys
Bentley regularly performed at the Clam House) and drag balls
decades before RuPaul was doing his thing. As the out gay writer of
the time Bruce Nugent said, “You did what you wanted to.
Nobody was in the closet. There wasn't any closet."
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