American Queer - 20th-century stories and verse

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 80 84 1)>The mid- to late-20th-century period in American history</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 80 84 1)> particularly following </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 80 84 1)>the Stonewall uprising</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 80 84 1)> brought to the forefront of our collective consciousness </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 80 84 1)>a new and liberating image of gay men and lesbians</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 80 84 1)> no longer content to cower in closets willing to perpetuate the pitiful caricatures society had relegated us to. These stories and verses are just one person's fictional real or a little of both account of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 80 84 1)>living as a gay man</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 80 84 1)> through those times.</span></p>