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It’s a sure thing many of you have stories like mine. It all started for me with Buster Crabbe. The shiny blond, All-American, Olympic swimmer played Flash Gordon in the serials I saw each week at the Saturday Kid’s matinee.

Author Michael Cunningham on the art of fiction

Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s is a remarkable time-capsule view into how gay folks lived, loved and gathered a half-century ago in a small gay bar in California.