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Article: Journalist Ricardo J. Brown's slim memoir, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940's (University of Minnesota Press) is the story of one man's life as a patron of Kirmser's bar in St. Paul. (Briefs).
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Journalist Ricardo J. Brown's slim memoir, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940's (University of Minnesota Press) is the story of one man's life as a patron of Kirmser's bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1945 to 1946. Brown colorfully if sparingly depicts the claustrophobic atmosphere of one seedy, ill-kept workingman's bar, heterosexual by day and gay by night. Though fewer in number than the men, lesbian patrons were a definite presence, a fact the Brown documents carefully. Running through it all was the absolute and abject horror of getting arrested for having sex with "the wrong person," and Brown is at his most affecting with such descriptions and ...