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irisblue

(32,911 posts) Sun Dec 2, 2018, 05:06 PM Dec 2018

Sisters&Brothers, I found a gem in my library

1974 copy of The Early Homosexual Rights Movement(1864-1935) by John Lauritsen and David Thorstad. It cost $2.75, and an immense amount of anxiety for me to buy it.
In very good condition for the it's age.

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Sisters&Brothers, I found a gem in my library (Original Post) irisblue Dec 2018 OP

The anxiety was that TEB Dec 2018 #1

Buying a book about LGBTQ history in a mainline bookstore irisblue Dec 2018 #2

terrible TEB Dec 2018 #3

The school district here TEB Dec 2018 #4

Resident of the bible belt? N/t gay texan Dec 2018 #5

TEB

(12,815 posts)

1. The anxiety was that

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Sun Dec 2, 2018, 05:10 PM

Dec 2018

Doing 1974 irisblue just was wondering

irisblue

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2. Buying a book about LGBTQ history in a mainline bookstore

Reply to TEB (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 2, 2018, 05:18 PM

Dec 2018

Was not common, at least in my smallish town; truly I am suprised it was stocked then. Closets were deep and wide and filled. There was a Gay Bar Raid that summer in the near large town.
The research, writing and finding a publisher just 5 years after the Stonewall Rebellion/Riots meant that the ideas of LGBTQ civil rights, as history was fairly new in the US.