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Article: The samizdat of the closeted decades.(Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940's-1970's)(Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation)(Book review)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
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- September 1, 2006
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Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940's-1970's
by Martin Meeker
University of Chicago Press. 320 pages, $75 ($25.00 paper)
Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation
by James T. Sears
Haworth Press. 540 pages, $34.95
READERS of the Hobby Directory, a typewritten newsletter for "men and boys" published in the, 1940's, occasionally placed ads seeking correspondence with like-minded "Navy men" who shared their interests in physical culture, ballet, and sunbathing. Such requests, which appeared under the innocuous heading ...