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Author Will Fellows: Book Signing & Reading

at Time Tested Books

September 16, 2010

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Time Tested Books is proud to present a reading and book signing with Will Fellows, co-author and editor of Gay Bar (University of Wisconsin Press; 186pp.; $26.95 cloth), Helen P. Branson's remarkable 1957 memoir of her years as owner-operator of a gay bar on Los Angeles's Melrose Avenue in the 1950s, regarded as "the first book by a heterosexual to depict the lives of homosexuals with admiration, respect, and love."

In this new edition of Gay Bar, Fellows interweaves Branson’s chapters with historical perspective through his own insightful commentary and excerpts gleaned from letters and essays appearing in gay publications of the period. Also included is the original introduction to the book by maverick 1950s psychiatrist Blanche Baker. The selection of voices gives the flavor of American life in an age of extraordinary anxiety, revealing how gay men saw themselves and their circumstances, and how others perceived them.

Will Fellows is the author of Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest and A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture, both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. Farm Boys was named a notable book of the year by Esquire and was adapted into an off-Broadway stage play. He lives in Milwaukee.

Copies of Gay Bar are available for purchase at Time Tested Books.

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