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The Boys on the Beach: A Creative Meditation on the Gay Rights Movement
In 1980, Midge Dector wrote an essay in commentary on the gay rights movement and also a sociological investigation of Fire Island. She's describing a period of time where there was a significant kind of straight contingent of what she was one. The vidal text about it does have this very interesting thing where he sort of points out that in the end, she comes away with a bunch of old prejudices about gay men.