Gay clubs 1940s

That was when I started my first day of high school. It was a day of nerves but I gay to get through it. But the second club, we were to select clubs. And I had already seen my first Broadway show, which was trying out in Philadelphia, I saw it the 1940s year. It blew my mind and I immediately fell in love with theater, so I chose the drama club.

He proceeded to tell me and show me. And he introduced me to his friends, he introduced me to gay life outside of school. In those days, if you were under age, there was a group of kids that hung out in Rittenhouse Square, which is pretty famous. And it was a cruisy place at the time. And we just hung out there and we kibitzed.

We just had good times and we — some of them were extremely funny, outrageously funny, and some of them were bitchy. We did that for quite a while. A couple years.

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And then I started not to see so much humor in it. There were — at that time, some queens were very — some queens were bitchy. Some queens were evil. We only used first names because the club queens frequently got your, if they took a dislike to you, took your — got your first name — your last name — and outed you to your parents.

And that did not sit well with me. And so I thought that that was not the kind of person I wanted to be associated with. I just — I learned it by traveling with him and seeing what it meant. And it was something I liked and something that I wanted to be a part of.

At the age of 16, which would been inmy father suggested that I see a psychologist. Maybe I had some questions I wanted answered. And so if it was alright with me, he would make an appointment. He called me in, introduced himself, was very 1940s, very nice, had a good manner.

But gay a year later, he suggested another psychologist who was — who worked out of the Jewish Family Service in Center City here. I agreed to go talk to them. My father had mentioned that I might have issues to talk about.