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Some Dance to Remember: A Novel of Gay Liberation in San Francisco 1970-1982
Author: Jack Fritscher
Binding: Paperback
Published: February, 1990
ISBN: 1890834262
$14.95
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Some Dance to Remember: A Novel of Gay Liberation in San Francisco 1970-1982
by: Jack Fritscher
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
Seventies' Women in Gay Lib Novel:
As a graphic designing woman, I heard about this novel, borrowed a copy and was surprised to find several women characters who are more than stereotypes or hags, but around whom the plot actually, in many ways, revolves. I particularly liked Kweenasheba and the satirical art-world woman, January Guggenheim. Also, Sandy Gully, the wife of the Viet Vet, was of interest in her domestic desperation. "Boogie Nights" did the seventies one way. This novel remixes the seventies even in its title, which references... more info
Take a tour of 18th & Castro, Folsom south of Market:
I provide gay tours of San Francisco and I came across this novel which was written before I moved to the City. This memoir is chock full of gay history details when Castro was in bloom with Harvey Milk and the Cockettes and clones and leather in the 1970s. I think that tourists to San Francisco, especially gay tourists coming to Mecca, might better enjoy their visits to 18th and Castro and to Folsom Street with a copy of this memoir in their backpack. This is an emotional, historical guide to SOMA and 18th... more info
1st book on gay steroid use, San Francisco, b4 BALCO & Bonds:
Queer culture is always the leading edge. Long before today's professional athlete "doping scandal" with headlines about BALCO and Barry Bonds, gay men as far back as 1977 were using oral and injectible steroids according to this book which is, as far as I could find, the first book to deal with steroids and gay men.
In my medical web research about clinical steroids, I came across this book that frankly reveals how steroids in the 1970s were the most abused drug out of all the drugs used by gay men as... more info
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