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BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY
A pre-Stonewall gay bar at the rner of Christopher Street and Gay Street was lled The Flower Pot. Notably, a group of seven gay male wrers who met up regularly New York Cy 1980 and 1981 named themselv “The Vlet Quill.
As Looby not Flowers of Manhood, “daisy, ” “buttercup, ” and pecially “pansy, ” as well as the generalized “horticultural lad” were early twentieth century terms for “flamboyant gay men. The police eventually shut them all down, cludg a 1939 one Harlem that end a 70-year annual tradn (for more, see Gaylaw: Challengg the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. “Chncey pots out that while the pansy craze often drew on or reproduced the most meang stereotyp of male homosexuals, did, at tim, provi a space for some gay performers to speak about, to rist, and even to unter heterosexist prumptns about fairi and other queers, ” the film scholar Mark Lynn Anrson wr his 2011 book Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Scienc 1920s Ameri.