Reminder: Reading: Gay Bar at Books Inc. @ Wed Sep 22 7:30pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » Reading: Gay Bar at Books Inc. Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 7:30pm Books Inc. 2275 Market St. (at Noe) San Francisco, CA 94114 415.864.6777 About the Event: Books Inc. Castro is proud to present author Will Fellows, who will be reading from his new book "Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950's." Vivacious, unconventional, candid, and straight, Helen Branson operated a gay bar in Los Angeles in the 1950s--America's most anti-gay decade. After years of fending off drunken passes as an entertainer in cocktail bars, this divorced grandmother preferred the wit, variety, and fun she found among homosexual men. Enjoying their companionship and deploring their plight, she gave her gay friends a place to socialize. Though at the time California statutes prohibited homosexuals from gathering in bars, Helen's place was relaxed, suave, and remarkably safe from police raids and other anti-homosexual hazards. In 1957 she published her extraordinary memoir "Gay Bar," the first book by a heterosexual to depict the lives of homosexuals with admiration, respect, and love. - - - - - About the Author: Will Fellows is the author of Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 1997. Farm Boys was recognized as a notable book of 1996 by Esquire and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and was lauded as a bestseller by The Advocate, Lambda Book Report, and Insight Out Book Club. A writer and educator, Will Fellows lives with his partner in Milwaukee. ---- Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookstore with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.'s origins date back to the Gold Rush days of 1851, when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt and renamed, and became Books Inc. as we know it today in 1946. Today, with 10 stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants. This event is FREE at Books Inc. 2275 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114 When Wed Sep 22 7:30pm – 9pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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